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The Great Economists - How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today (Paperback)
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A Times Best Business Book of 2018 What can the ideas of history's
greatest economists tell us about the most important issues of our
time? 'The best place to start to learn about the very greatest
economists of all time' Professor Tyler Cowen, author of The
Complacent Class and The Great Stagnation Since the days of Adam
Smith, economists have grappled with a series of familiar problems
- but often their ideas are hard to digest, before we even try to
apply them to today's issues. Linda Yueh is renowned for her
combination of erudition, as an accomplished economist herself, and
accessibility, as a leading writer and broadcaster in this field;
and in The Great Economists she explains the key thoughts of
history's greatest economists, how their lives and times affected
their ideas, how our lives have been influenced by their work, and
how they could help with the policy challenges that we face today.
In the light of current economic problems, and in particular
economic growth, Yueh explores the thoughts of economists from Adam
Smith and David Ricardo through Joan Robinson and Milton Friedman
to Douglass North and Robert Solow. Along the way she asks, for
example: what do the ideas of Karl Marx tell us about the likely
future for the Chinese economy? How does the work of John Maynard
Keynes, who argued for government spending to create full
employment, help us think about state investment? And with
globalization in trouble, what can we learn about handling Brexit
and Trumpism? In one accessible volume, this expert new voice
provides an overarching guide to the biggest questions of our time.
The Great Economists includes: Adam Smith David Ricardo Karl Marx
Alfred Marshall Irving Fisher John Maynard Keynes Joseph Schumpeter
Friedrich Hayek Joan Robinson Milton Friedman Douglass North Robert
Solow 'Economics students, like others, can learn a lot from this
book' - Professor Paul Collier, author of The Bottom Billion 'Not
only a great way to learn in an easily readable manner about some
of the greatest economic influences of the past, but also a good
way to test your own a priori assumptions about some of the big
challenges of our time.' - Lord Jim O'Neill, former Chairman at
Goldman Sachs Asset Management, former UK Treasury Minister, and
author of The Growth Map 'An extremely engaging survey of the
lifetimes and ideas of the great thinkers of economic history.' -
Professor Kenneth Rogoff, author of The Curse of Cash and co-author
of This Time is Different 'This book is a very readable
introduction to the lives and thinking of the greats.' - Professor
Raghuram Rajan, former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, and
author of I Do What I Do and Fault Lines 'Read it not only to learn
about the world's great economists, but also to see how
consequential thought innovations can be, and have been.' - Mohamed
el-Erian, Chief Economic Adviser at Allianz, former CEO of PIMCO
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