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New ideas from dead economists : the introduction to modern economic thought / Todd G. Buchholz ; with a foreword by Martin Feldstein

By: Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Plume, Penguin Random House LLC, [2021]Edition: Completely revised and updated, 4th editionDescription: xxiii, 436 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780593183540
  • 0593183541
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: New ideas from dead economistsDDC classification:
  • 330.0922 23
LOC classification:
  • HB76 .B83 2021
Contents:
Foreword / Martin Feldstein -- Introduction: The Plight of the Economist -- The Second Coming of Adam Smith -- Malthus: Prophet of Doom and Population Boom -- David Ricardo and the Cry for Free Trade -- The Stormy Mind of John Stuart Mill -- The Angry Oracle Called Karl Marx -- Alfred Marshall and the Marginalist Mind -- Old and New Institutionalists -- Keynes: Bon Vivant as Savior -- Milton Friedman and the Monetarist Battle Against Keynes -- The Public Choice School: Politics as a Business -- The Wild World of Rational Expectations and behavioral economics -- Dark Clouds, Silver Linings
Summary: "An entertaining and accessible introduction to great economic thinkers throughout history, now in its fourth edition, with updates and commentary on the 2020 "great cessation," Trump and Obama economic policies, the dominance of Amazon, and many other timely topics"-- Provided by publisher
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Books Centeral Library First floor - Management 330.0922 B.T.N 2021 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 29748

Revised edition of the author's New ideas from dead economists, ℗♭2007

Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-424) and index

Foreword / Martin Feldstein -- Introduction: The Plight of the Economist -- The Second Coming of Adam Smith -- Malthus: Prophet of Doom and Population Boom -- David Ricardo and the Cry for Free Trade -- The Stormy Mind of John Stuart Mill -- The Angry Oracle Called Karl Marx -- Alfred Marshall and the Marginalist Mind -- Old and New Institutionalists -- Keynes: Bon Vivant as Savior -- Milton Friedman and the Monetarist Battle Against Keynes -- The Public Choice School: Politics as a Business -- The Wild World of Rational Expectations and behavioral economics -- Dark Clouds, Silver Linings

"An entertaining and accessible introduction to great economic thinkers throughout history, now in its fourth edition, with updates and commentary on the 2020 "great cessation," Trump and Obama economic policies, the dominance of Amazon, and many other timely topics"-- Provided by publisher

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