Economics Explained
Everything You Need to Know About How the Economy Works and Where It's Going
$47.75
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
20 May 1998
Summary
In its fourth edition, Economics Explained continues its announced purpose—to explain that mysterious thing called economics—with a new urgency.
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780684846415 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0684846411 |
| Author: | Robert L. Heilbroner, Lester Thurow |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Touchstone |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Edition: | 4th |
| Release Date: | 20 May 1998 |
| Weight: | 257g |
| Dimensions: | 214mm x 140mm x 20mm |
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The Boston GlobeAn excellent course in the history of capitalism and socialism, of growth, progress, and decline.
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.
About The Author
Robert L. Heilbroner
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.
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