Author: Edwin Robert Anderson SeligmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
On Some Neglected British Economists
Author: Edwin Robert Anderson SeligmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
On Some Neglected British Economists
Author: Edwin Robert Anderson SeligmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
On Some Neglected British Economists
Author: On Some Neglected British Economists
Author: On Some Neglected British Economists
Author: Augustus M. Kelley, PublishersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
On Some Neglected British Economists. A Rediscovery
Author: The Tyranny of Experts
Author: William EasterlyPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465080901
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
In this "bracingly iconoclastic” book (New York Times Book Review), a renowned economics scholar breaks down the fight to end global poverty and the rights that poor individuals have had taken away for generations. In The Tyranny of Experts, renowned economist William Easterly examines our failing efforts to fight global poverty, and argues that the "expert approved" top-down approach to development has not only made little lasting progress, but has proven a convenient rationale for decades of human rights violations perpetrated by colonialists, postcolonial dictators, and US and UK foreign policymakers seeking autocratic allies. Demonstrating how our traditional antipoverty tactics have both trampled the freedom of the world's poor and suppressed a vital debate about alternative approaches to solving poverty, Easterly presents a devastating critique of the blighted record of authoritarian development. In this masterful work, Easterly reveals the fundamental errors inherent in our traditional approach and offers new principles for Western agencies and developing countries alike: principles that, because they are predicated on respect for the rights of poor people, have the power to end global poverty once and for all.
Biographical Dictionary Of British Economists
Author: William SweetPublisher: Thoemmes
ISBN: 9781843710301
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This set of international scholarship spans 600 years of British economics, including profiles of the most current figures at work today. Under the guidance of University of Edinburgh's Donald Rutherford, the contributions of more than 150 specialists worldwide are compiled into this single, comprehensive resource. With more than 600 biographical entries, coverage includes both well-known and lesser-known writers and thinkers in the field. Thus, entries on notables such as John Maynard Keynes are appropriately rounded out with profiles on individuals who may not typically be regarded as economists, but made significant contributions to the field, such as H.G. Wells, Isaac Newton, and William Taylor Coleridge. Entries provide biographical sketches, analysis and assessment of the writer's doctrines, ideas and contributions, helping to place the author in historical context and highlight influences. The A-to-Z format makes the work highly accessible and user-friendly, and is further enhanced by cross-references within the entries, as well as a cumulative name index. Among other features of this current collection are entry-specific bibliographies that support further research.
The Economists' Hour
Author: Binyamin AppelbaumPublisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316512273
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
In this "lively and entertaining" history of ideas (Liaquat Ahamed, The New Yorker), New York Times editorial writer Binyamin Appelbaum tells the story of the people who sparked four decades of economic revolution. Before the 1960s, American politicians had never paid much attention to economists. But as the post-World War II boom began to sputter, economists gained influence and power. In The Economists' Hour, Binyamin Appelbaum traces the rise of the economists, first in the United States and then around the globe, as their ideas reshaped the modern world, curbing government, unleashing corporations and hastening globalization. Some leading figures are relatively well-known, such as Milton Friedman, the elfin libertarian who had a greater influence on American life than any other economist of his generation, and Arthur Laffer, who sketched a curve on a cocktail napkin that helped to make tax cuts a staple of conservative economic policy. Others stayed out of the limelight, but left a lasting impact on modern life: Walter Oi, a blind economist who dictated to his wife and assistants some of the calculations that persuaded President Nixon to end military conscription; Alfred Kahn, who deregulated air travel and rejoiced in the crowded cabins on commercial flights as the proof of his success; and Thomas Schelling, who put a dollar value on human life. Their fundamental belief? That government should stop trying to manage the economy.Their guiding principle? That markets would deliver steady growth, and ensure that all Americans shared in the benefits. But the Economists' Hour failed to deliver on its promise of broad prosperity. And the single-minded embrace of markets has come at the expense of economic equality, the health of liberal democracy, and future generations. Timely, engaging and expertly researched, The Economists' Hour is a reckoning -- and a call for people to rewrite the rules of the market. A Wall Street Journal Business BestsellerWinner of the Porchlight Business Book Award in Narrative & Biography
Charlatans Or Saviours?
Author: Roger MiddletonPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Middleton (history of political economy, U. of Bristol) continues his two-decade inquiry into the relationship between professional economists and economic policy, focusing here on whether economists can be blamed, credibly that is, for Britain's economic decline. At a level suitable for advanced undergraduates in economics, he traces the influence of the science since the 1890s with such perspectives as the market for economic advice, Alfred Marshall's (1842-1924) mission, the era of John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), and monetarism and the market. He includes very helpful profiles of the people mentioned. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR