In this concise yet comprehensive history Heinz D Kurz traces the long arc of economic thought from its emergence in ancient Greece to its systematic presentation among the classical thinkers of the late eighteenth & early nineteenth centuries to the influential work of scholars such as Paul Samuelson & Kenneth J Arrow With a keen eye for how economic insights are acquired lost & reborn Kurz focuses on the dynamic individuals who give old ideas new life & the historical events that provoke different approaches & theories Over the course of this journey Kurz explains what Adam Smith meant by the "invisible hand"; how Karl Marx&s "law of motion" works in capitalist economies; the roots of the Austrian economists& emphasis on the problems of information incomplete knowledge & uncertainty; John Maynard Keynes&s principle of effective demand & economic stabilization; & the insights & challenges offered by growth theory welfare economics game theory & more He concludes with a deft summation of world economists& major concerns today & their critical relation to world events ...

From Nobel Prize-winning economist Jean Tirole a bold new agenda for the role of economics in society When Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics he suddenly found himself being stopped in the street by complete strangers & asked to comment on issues of the day no matter how distant from his own areas of research His transformation from academic economist to public intellectual prompted him to reflect further on the role economists & their discipline play in society The result is Economics for the Common Good a passionate manifesto for a world in which economics far from being a dismal science is a positive force for the common good Economists are rewarded for writing technical papers in scholarly journals not joining in public debates But Tirole says we urgently need economists to engage with the many challenges facing society helping to identify our key objectives & the tools needed to meet them To show how economics can help us realize the common good Tirole shares his insights on a broad array of questions affecting our everyday lives & the future of our society including global warming unemployment the post-2008 global financial order the Euro crisis the digital revolution innovation & the proper balance between the free market & regulation Providing a rich account of how economics can benefit everyone Economics for the Common Good sets a new agenda for the role of economics in society ...

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This classic bestselling textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of development economics The tenth edition of Tony Thirlwall's book now co-written with Penelope Pacheco-Lopez provides a clear comprehensive & rigorous introduction to the theory of development economics & the experience of developing countries Balancing a historic approach with current data & references it provides a wide-ranging analysis of the subject This all-inclusive methodology succeeds at representing different schools of thought with a balance of micro & macro topics An ideal textbook for undergraduate students of economics & other social sciences it is also suitable for upper undergraduate & master's level modules on development economics as an option on a non-economics degree ...

Tomas Sedlacek has shaken the study of economics as few ever have Named one of the Young Guns & one of the five hot minds in economics by the Yale Economic Review he serves on the National Economic Council in Prague where his provocative writing has achieved bestseller status How has he done it? By arguing a simple almost heretical proposition economics is ultimately about good & evil In The Economics of Good & Evil Sedlacek radically rethinks his field challenging our assumptions about the world Economics is touted as a science a value-free mathematical inquiry he writes but it's actually a cultural phenomenon a product of our civilization It began within philosophy-Adam Smith himself not only wrote The Wealth of Nations but also The Theory of Moral Sentiments-and economics as Sedlacek shows is woven out of history myth religion & ethics Even the most sophisticated mathematical model Sedlacek writes is de facto a story a parable our effort to (rationally) grasp the world around us Economics not only describes the world but establishes normative standards identifying ideal conditions Science he claims is a system of beliefs to which we are committed To grasp the beliefs underlying economics he breaks out of the field's confines with a tour de force exploration of economic thinking broadly defined over the millennia He ranges from the epic of Gilgamesh & the Old Testament to the emergence of Christianity from Descartes & Adam Smith to the consumerism in Fight Club Throughout he asks searching meta-economic questions What is the meaning & the point of economics? Can we do ethically all that we can do technically? Does it pay to be good? Placing the wisdom of philosophers & poets over strict mathematical models of human behavior Sedlacek's groundbreaking work promises to change the way we calculate economic value ...

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