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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...

"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...

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...

The epic story of the making of modern economics, and of how economics rescued mankind from squalor and deprivation by placing its material fate in its own hands rather than in fate. Nasar's account begins with Charles Dickens and Henry Mayhew observing the condition of the poor majority in mid-nineteenth-century London, the richest place in the world. She describes the often heroic efforts of Marx and others to put those insights into action, with...

"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,...

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.

Traces the economist's life and work, offering a portrait of his public and private life.

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...