Economics Explained: Everything You Need to Know about How the Economy Works and Where It's Going

ISBN-13: 9780684846415 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 240 str.

Robert Heilbroner

Opis

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, the "specter" of inflation. As before, Robert Heilbroner and Lester Thurow treat these problems in language that seeks to make clear their causes and treatments. In this straightforward, highly accessible reference, Heilbroner and Thurow -- two of America's most respected and articulate economists -- offer all the economics essential for becoming an effective investor, a savvy business decision maker, or simply an informed member of society.

Recenzje

The Boston Globe An excellent course in the history of capitalism and socialism, of growth, progress, and decline.

Spis treści

Introduction
I The Economic Background
One Capitalism: Where Do We Come From?
Two Three Great Economists
Three A Bird's-Eye View of the Economy
Four The Trend of Things
II Macroeconomics -- The Analysis of Prosperity and Recession
Five The GDP
Six Saving and Investing
Seven Passive Consumption, Active Investment
Eight The Economics of the Public Sector
Nine The Debate About Government
Ten What Money Is
Eleven How Money Works
III Microeconomics -- The Anatomy of the Market System
Twelve How Markets Work
Thirteen Where Markets Fail
Fourteen The Two Worlds of Business
IV Problems
Fifteen The Specter of Inflation
Sixteen The Inequality Problem
Seventeen Globalization
Eighteen National Policy in a Globalized World
Nineteen The Unfinished Revolution
Index

O autorze

Robert Heilbroner, one of America's foremost economists, is the author of THE WORDLY PHILOSOPHERS and other books.Lester Thurow is the author of many books including Head to Head. He teaches at MIT. Lester Carl Thurow was a political economist, former dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management, and author of books on economic topics.