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This book gives the reader a sense of the modern economics profession and how it is changing. The volume does so with a set of nine interviews with cutting edge economists, followed by interviews with two Nobel Prize winners, Paul Samuelson and Kenneth Arrow, reflecting on the changes that are occurring. What results is a clear picture of today's economics--and it is no longer standard neoclassical economics. The interviews and commentary together...
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Discusses 50 influential practitioners and theorists in the history of world economics, and 10 economic schools of thought.
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"This major original reference work includes over one hundred specially commissioned articles on the lives and writings of women who made significant contributions to economics. It sheds new light on the rich, but too often neglected, heritage of women's analysis of economic issues and participation in the discipline of economics. In addition to those who wrote in English, some notable Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese Russian,...
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"EconoPower offers practical advice on personal financial matters - earning, saving, investing, and retiring - based on the breakthrough contributions of behavioral economists. It reveals exciting discoveries by economists to solve domestic problems, such as road congestion, health care, public education, crime, and other issues high on the public's list. And it looks at how economists are working successfully on international issues from global warming...
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This is the fifth edition, newly revised for the 1980s, of the most celebrated and popular account of economics ever written. This is a book about a handful of men with a curious claim to fame. By all the rules of schoolboy history books, they were nonentities: they commanded no armies, sent no men to their deaths, ruled no empires, took little part in history-making decisions.
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This book presents the celebrated Fed Chairman as few know him. It spans his hardscrabble childhood in Depression-era New York City, his fascinating decades-long friendship with controversial author Ayn Rand, his Juilliard education and days spent touring with Henry Jerome's jazz band, as well as his two marriages, dynamic D.C. social life, and service to five U.S. presidents. Artfully crafted, this biography paints an astonishing and enthralling...
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"In A Brief History of Economic Genius, Paul Strathern brings to life the great economists and mathematicians by revealing their eccentricity and brilliance. Readers will enjoy Strathern's entertaining style as well as the extensively researched and logical tale of how these intellectual giants contributed their natural talents, ideas, and skills to the development of today's mathematical and economics concepts." "Starting with the Renaissance, Strathern...
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New edition with three additional essays, edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Includes bibliographical references and index. The council of four, Paris, 1919 -- Mr. Lloyd George: a fragment -- Mr. Bonar Law -- Lord Oxford -- Edwin Montagu -- Winston Churchill --The great Villiers connection -- Trotsky on England -- Robert Malthus: the first of the Cambridge economists -- Alfred Marshall -- F.Y. Edgeworth --F.P. Ramsey -- William Stanley Jevons -- Newton, the...
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"This book will help you become a critical consumer of economic arguments. Accordingly, the volume provides many examples of these arguments, and explains why they are wrong. It is not, however, just an exercise in negation; it does present some economic theory, though not in a formal and rigorous way. Instead of stressing a well-explicated theory, it inculcates an intuitive "feel" for economics, which economics courses often overlook due to their...
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Author Buchan breathes new life into Adam Smith's legacy and the beginnings of modern economics. Scottish philosopher Adam Smith (1723-1790) has been adopted by neoconservatives as the ideological father of unregulated business and small government. Politicians such as Thatcher and Reagan promoted his famous 1776 book The Wealth of Nations as the bible of laissez-faire economics. In this accessible book, Buchan refutes much of what modern politicians...
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In this, the first full-scale biography of Adam Smith for a hundred years, Ian Simpson Ross brings his subject into historical light as a thinker and author by examining his family circumstance, education, career, and social and intellectual circle, including David Hume and Francois Quesnay. Smith's life is revealed through his correspondence, archival documents, the reports of contemporaries, and the record of his publications. This is the life of...
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