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Economics Explained: Everything You Need to Know about How the Economy Works and Where It's Going
In its fourth edition, "Economics Explained" continues its announced purpose-- to explain that mysterious thing called economics. But there is a new urgency to the book. It is announced in the first sentence of the introduction: "Just in case the reader-to-be hasn't noticed, disturbing things are going on in the American economy these days."
This new edition is about these disturbing things: a trend toward inequality of incomes, the appearance of a new "globalized" capitalism, the "specter" of inflation. As before, Robert Heilbroner and Lester Thurow treat these problems in language that seeks to make clear their causes and treatments. In this straightforward, highly accessible reference, Heilbroner and Thurow-- two of America's most respected and articulate economists-- offer all the economics essential for becoming an effective investor, a savvy business decision maker, or simply an informed member of society.
Book Details
- Publisher: Touchstone Books
- Publish Date: May 5th, 1998
- Pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - 0004
- Dimensions: 8.30in - 5.40in - 0.70in - 0.50lb
- EAN: 9780684846415
- Categories: • Economics - Theory• Economic History
About the Author
Heilbroner, Robert L.: - Robert L. Heilbroner was an American economist and historian of economic thought. The author of some 20 books, Heilbroner was best known for The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers, a survey of the lives and contributions of famous economists, notably Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes.
Thurow, Lester: - Lester Carl Thurow was a political economist, former dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management, and author of books on economic topics.
Praise for this book
The Boston Globe An excellent course in the history of capitalism and socialism, of growth, progress, and decline.
Ms. At last, a patient but not condescending, detailed but not recondite, conversational but not glib discussion of the factors and terms that any reader of the daily newspaper needs to understand.
Robert B. Reich, former Secretary of Labor and author of Locked in the Cabinet In this delightfully written primer, Heilbroner and Thurow sweep away the debris of economic theory to expose the political and social choices lying just below it.