How to think like an economist : the great economists who shaped the world and what we can learn from them today
Mochrie, Robbie2024
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Capturing the essence of history's most influential economists in enjoyable and illuminating biographical sketches, this book shows how the great economic thinkers are still relevant today. We live in the economy - and we are part of it. Living through a pandemic, governments had to work out how to put economies into a deep freeze without destroying them. In explaining how economic thinking is indispensable to tackling these huge problems, this book is a sure-footed guide, spanning Aristotle's ideas about restraining consumption, Adam Smith's thinking about the importance of moral character for sustained economic development, and Esther Duflo's ongoing work to help the world's poorest communities lift themselves out of poverty. It shows how great economic thinkers have enabled us to see the world differently, and how we can make it better.
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London : Bloomsbury Continuum, 2024.London : Bloomsbury Continuum, 2024.
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288 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781399408646 (hbk)
Dewey class:
330.0922
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English
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BRN:
2923666