Economic Schools of Thought: Crash Course Economics #14

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  • Economist in an Uncertain World

    • ASIN: 023108496X
    • ISBN: 023108496X
    • Manufacturer: Columbia University Press

    As the Chairman of the powerful Federal Reserve Board during most of the 1970s, Burns presided over what many see as the demise of the postwar economic order. Wells goes beyond demonstrating that Burns greatly influenced the ways that Americans dealt with the crises of the 1970s to posit that an examination of Burns' tenure helps to explain the U.S... [Read More]

  • Great Nature (1933-1945)

    • ASIN: B004D4GAGM

  • The Economist - US Edition

    • ASIN: B0027VSU9S
    • Manufacturer: The Economist

    The color Kindle edition of The Economist - US Edition is now available on the Kindle Reading App for your Android device. Download issues at no extra cost from Archived Items. The Economist is the premier source for the analysis of world business and current affairs, providing authoritative insight and opinion on international news, world politics... [Read More]

  • Freakonomics Rev Ed: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

    • ASIN: B000MAH66Y
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow

    Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime?These may not sound like typical questions for an econo-mist to ask. But Steven D. Levit... [Read More]

  • Pinochet's Economists: The Chicago School of Economics in Chile (Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics)

    • ASIN: 0521064406
    • ISBN: 0521064406
    • Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press

    This book tells the extraordinary story of the Pinochet regime's economists, known as the Chicago Boys. Following their training as economists at the University of Chicago, they took advantage of the opportunity afforded them by the 1973 military coup to launch the first radical free market strategy implemented in a developing country. The ideologi... [Read More]

  • Alongside Night

    • ASIN: B0163BSN7Q

  • Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology)

    • ASIN: 0691148031
    • ISBN: 0691148031
    • Manufacturer: Princeton University Press

    Economists and Societies is the first book to systematically compare the profession of economics in the United States, Britain, and France, and to explain why economics, far from being a uniform science, differs in important ways among these three countries. Drawing on in-depth interviews with economists, institutional analysis, and a wealth of sch... [Read More]

  • World Famous Economist Eliot Janeway in 1981 Smirnoff Vodka Full-Color AD Original Paper Ephemera Authentic Vintage Print Magazine Ad/Article

    • ASIN: B00K85EP5I
    • Brand: Paper History Co

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  • The Romantic Economist: Imagination in Economics

    • ASIN: 0521735157
    • ISBN: 0521735157
    • Brand: Brand: Cambridge University Press
    • Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press

    Since economies are dynamic processes driven by creativity, social norms, and emotions as well as rational calculation, why do economists largely study them using static equilibrium models and narrow rationalistic assumptions? Economic activity is as much a function of imagination and social sentiments as of the rational optimisation of given prefe... [Read More]

  • What Would the Great Economists Do?: How Twelve Brilliant Minds Would Solve Today's Biggest Problems

    • ASIN: 1250180538
    • ISBN: 1250180538
    • Manufacturer: Picador

    A Newsweek "Best 50 Books of the Year (So Far)" Pick"What Would the Great Economists Do? comes at the right time: a highly accessible and acute guide to thinking and learning from the men and woman whose work can inform and ultimately aid us in understanding the great national and global crises we're living through." --Nouriel Roubini, author of th... [Read More]

  • The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

    • ASIN: B017MZ8EBM
    • Brand: Unknown
    • Manufacturer: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

    Shocking Bestseller: The original version of this astonishing tell-all book spent 73 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has sold more than 1.25 million copies, and has been translated into 32 languages. New Revelations: Featuring 15 explosive new chapters, this expanded edition of Perkins's classic bestseller brings the story of economic ... [Read More]

  • The World in Conflict: Understanding the world's troublespots

    • ASIN: 1610396170
    • ISBN: 1610396170
    • Brand: Economist the
    • Manufacturer: The Economist

    In the last decade, the USA and its allies have invaded Afghanistan; Russia has sent troops into Ukraine; Britain and France helped topple a regime in Libya; the militant group ISIS has emerged in the Middle East; and across West Africa, the quest for precious minerals has both financed and caused conflicts.Other conflicts are less bloody, but stil... [Read More]

  • Miss Hesterley and Miss Christian, FSA (Farm Security Administration) home economists, discussing farm and home plan with Ellis Adkins family, rural rehabilitation borrowers, in front of their home. T

    • UPC: 787751237557
    • ASIN: B0167OZTVW
    • Brand: Historic Photos
    • Manufacturer: Historic Photos

    Alabama, Coffee County Miss Hesterley and Miss Christian, FSA (Farm Security Administration) home economists, discussing farm and home plan with Ellis Adkins family, rural rehabilitation borrowers, in front of their home. This is their first year on the program. There are nine 1939

  • Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

    • ASIN: B00BV6RTUG
    • Brand: Unknown
    • Manufacturer: Wiley

  • The Economist Pocket World in Figures, 2002 Edition (The Economist Books)

    • ASIN: 1861973519
    • ISBN: 1861973519
    • Manufacturer: Economists Books

  • Miss Hesterley and Miss Christian, home economists discussing farm and home plan with Ellis Adkins family, rural rehabilitation borrowers, in front of their home. This is their first year on the progr

    • UPC: 787751237533
    • ASIN: B0167OZRB4
    • Brand: Historic Photos
    • Manufacturer: Historic Photos

    Alabama, Coffee County Miss Hesterley and Miss Christian, home economists discussing farm and home plan with Ellis Adkins family, rural rehabilitation borrowers, in front of their home. This is their first year on the program. There are nine in the family. Coffee County, Alabam 1939

  • The Struggle over the Soul of Economics

    • ASIN: 0691034192
    • ISBN: 0691034192
    • Brand: Brand: Princeton University Press
    • Manufacturer: Princeton University Press

    This book provides a surprising answer to two puzzling questions that relate to the very "soul" of the professional study of economics in the late twentieth century. How did the discipline of economics come to be dominated by an approach that is heavily dependent on mathematically derived models? And what happened to other approaches to the discipl... [Read More]

  • Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong--and What You Really Need to Know

    • UPC: 884774208813
    • ASIN: 0143125702
    • ISBN: 0143125702
    • Brand: Emily Oster
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    *Newly Revised for 2019* What to Expect When You're Expecting meets Freakonomics: an award-winning economist disproves standard recommendations about pregnancy to empower women while they're expecting. From the author of Cribsheet, a data-driven decision making guide to the early years of parenting Pregnancy—unquestionably one of the most pro­f... [Read More]

  • THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE THE WORLD IN 2013

    • ASIN: B07CSJFY8N
    • Brand: Unknown
    • Manufacturer: Unbranded

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  • Megatech: Technology in 2050

    • ASIN: 1610398254
    • ISBN: 1610398254
    • Brand: ECOMOMIST
    • Manufacturer: The Economist

    In the not-too-distant future, we'll be plugging our brains into the internet, replacing our worn-out body parts, and eating meat grown in a lab. If we're lucky, we'll be living in a world of more productivity, more energy, and more equality—and if we're not, we'll be facing the profound threat of nonexistent privacy, ecological collapse, and nuc... [Read More]

  • Economic Schools of Thought: Crash Course Economics #14

    Advice to Young Economists

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