Economics Explained
Everything You Need to Know About How the Economy Works and Where It's Going
4th Edition
Published on 3. November 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-684-84641-5 (ISBN)
Description
Containing about 30 percent new material, this edition of ECONOMICS EXPLAINED offers readers not only an invaluable primer on economic theory, but a clear understanding of the causes and treatments of the problems confronting us today, as well as the possible risks and the potential rewards we face in the future. Previous Edition ISBN: 0671884220
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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.More details
Edition
4th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Simon & Schuster
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 211 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
227 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-684-84641-5 (9780684846415)
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Robert L. Heilbroner | Lester C. Thurow
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Persons
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.
Lester Carl Thurow was a political economist, former dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management, and author of books on economic topics.
Lester Carl Thurow was a political economist, former dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management, and author of books on economic topics.
Content
Introduction
I The Economic Background
One Capitalism: Where Do We Come From?
Two Three Great Economists
Three A Bird's-Eye View of the Economy
Four The Trend of Things
II Macroeconomics -- The Analysis of Prosperity and Recession
Five The GDP
Six Saving and Investing
Seven Passive Consumption, Active Investment
Eight The Economics of the Public Sector
Nine The Debate About Government
Ten What Money Is
Eleven How Money Works
III Microeconomics -- The Anatomy of the Market System
Twelve How Markets Work
Thirteen Where Markets Fail
Fourteen The Two Worlds of Business
IV Problems
Fifteen The Specter of Inflation
Sixteen The Inequality Problem
Seventeen Globalization
Eighteen National Policy in a Globalized World
Nineteen The Unfinished Revolution
Index
I The Economic Background
One Capitalism: Where Do We Come From?
Two Three Great Economists
Three A Bird's-Eye View of the Economy
Four The Trend of Things
II Macroeconomics -- The Analysis of Prosperity and Recession
Five The GDP
Six Saving and Investing
Seven Passive Consumption, Active Investment
Eight The Economics of the Public Sector
Nine The Debate About Government
Ten What Money Is
Eleven How Money Works
III Microeconomics -- The Anatomy of the Market System
Twelve How Markets Work
Thirteen Where Markets Fail
Fourteen The Two Worlds of Business
IV Problems
Fifteen The Specter of Inflation
Sixteen The Inequality Problem
Seventeen Globalization
Eighteen National Policy in a Globalized World
Nineteen The Unfinished Revolution
Index