This intriguing collection is designed to show how economists can play a more active role in designing and directing the nation's social institutions.
In a world where the reader is met with a barrage of conflicting and competing information, this book continues to provide a definitive guide to economics.
The Little Book of Economics will teach you much more than a little about the forces that shape all of our lives." —N.
What are the central questions of economics and how do economists tackle them? This book aims to answer these questions in 100 essays, written by economists and selected from "The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics".
Today, the most pressing challenges for public economics are of macroeconomic nature: pensions, debt, income distribution, and fiscal sustainability.
Examines capitalism, productivity, inflation, the stock market, the gross national product, money, and the theories of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes
“Short essays about the [250] most significant developments in economic history . . . accessible [and] beautifully illustrated.” —Booklist From the philosophical dialogues of Ancient Greece and the moral contemplations of Medieval ...
While the first edition presented the work of the Austrian School as the counter to the traditional (neoclassical) paradigm, the second edition widens the theoretical approaches considered to encompass all the major variants of what is ...
This graduate-level text develops a more sophisticated approach to household economics, one that allows for multiple-income earners and shared decision-making. This approach is used to present a fundamentally new view of consumption.
If any theory can become true, there are no true theories per se because there is no such thing as a pre-existing economy to describe. Is such a relativist stance a fatality? This is the question at stake in this book.