Economics
a very short introduction
$29.13
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
30 April 2007
Summary
Unveiling Economics: A Journey Through Global Challenges and Everyday Life
Economics has the capacity to offer us deep insights into some of the most formidable problems of life, and offer solutions to them too. Combining a global approach with examples from everyday life, Partha Dasgupta describes the lives of two children who live very different lives in different parts of the world: in the Mid-West USA and in Ethiopia. He compares the obstacles facing them, and the processes that…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780192853455 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0192853457 |
| Series: | Very Short Introductions |
| Author: | Partha Dasgupta |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 30 April 2007 |
| Weight: | 144g |
| Dimensions: | 175mm x 110mm x 12mm |
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Critics Review
The text is direct, rigorous and thought-provoking. It provides an intelligent, rigorous and readable introduction to economics.
`The primer I have enjoyed most… the one I would recommend to a friend who wanted to learn how economists think about the world right now…’
About The Author
Partha Dasgupta
Partha Dasgupta is Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge and Fellow of St John’s College. His book, An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution (OUP, 1993) was praised as ‘a tour de force… a model of good economics’ (Joseph Stiglitz) and ‘philosophically sophisticated, empirically well-informed, ambitious and lively’ (James Griffin).
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