Screen LibraryThe great economists : how their ideas can help us today /
"Since the days of Adam Smith, economists have grappled with a series of familiar problems - but often their ideas are hard to digest, before we even try to apply them to today's issues. Linda Yueh is renowned for her combination of erudition, as an accomplished economist herself, and acce...
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Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books,
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| Publisher Address: | [London] : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"Since the days of Adam Smith, economists have grappled with a series of familiar problems - but often their ideas are hard to digest, before we even try to apply them to today's issues. Linda Yueh is renowned for her combination of erudition, as an accomplished economist herself, and accessibility, as a leading writer and broadcaster in this field; and in The Great Economists she explains the key thoughts of history's greatest economists, how their lives and times affected their ideas, how our lives have been influenced by their work, and how they could help with the policy challenges that we face today."--Publisher's description. |
| Carrier Form: | 357 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-311) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780241234983 (paperback) : 0241234980 (paperback) 9780241234976 (hardback) 0241234972 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | HB76 |
| CLC: | K815.31 |
| Call Number: | K815.31/Y947 |
| Contents: | Introduction: Great economists on our economic challenges -- 1. Adam Smith: shouldf the government rebalance the economy? -- 2. David Ricardo: do trade deficits matter? -- 3. Karl Marx: can China become rich? -- 4. Alfred Marshall: is inequality inevitable? -- 5. Irving Fisher: are we at risk of repeating the 1930s? -- 6. John Maynard Keynes: to invest or not to invest? -- 7. Joseph Schumpeter: what drives innovation? -- 8. Friedrich Hayek: what can we learn from financial crises? -- 9. Joan Robinson: why are wages so low? -- 10. Milton Friedman: are central banks douing too much? -- 11. Douglass North: why are so few countries prosperous? -- 12. Robert Solow: do we face a slow-growth future? -- Epilogue: The future of globalization. |