How to Argue with an Economist, Lindy Edwards

Автор: Lindy Edwards
Название: How to Argue with an Economist
ISBN: 0521525322 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521525329
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
Цена: 19000 T
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Описание: This fascinating book reflects on how economics has become central to our lives, and how the ‘economic rationalist’ perspective has become the lens through which all matters in Australian public life are viewed. It explains how this economic world view systematically overlooks important social issues and how it transforms Australian culture. How to Argue with an Economist invites a broad general audience into debates that were once reserved for experts. Lindy Edwards, a former economic adviser in the Prime Minister’s Department, has a talent for expressing concepts simply. She distils economics’ key ideas into a lively and enjoyable read, explaining how economists think and then how you can argue with them.

Автор: Freedman
Название: In Search of the Two-Handed Economist
ISBN: 1137589736 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137589736
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 121110.00 T
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Описание: For the economics profession, issues of marketing and ideology have often been reduced to the status of 'the love that dare not speak its name'. This volume brings these issues out of the closet and examines what effect, if any, these factors have in shaping the contours of the discipline. The way in which economists face policy issues is in part driven, even if only subconsciously, by unacknowledged ideological concerns and the increasing need to sell one's theories, views and policies in a frustratingly competitive academic market. In seven carefully and provocatively granulated chapters, the volume raises possible implications of these marketing and ideological imperatives by approaching the problem from a number of surprising and irreverent directions. Though unfortunately, in its irrevocable denouement the text proves incapable of creating anything resembling a life changing experience let alone coming to any definite and irrefutable conclusions. Like life itself, economics is full of uncertainties and uncontrollable difficulties.