This intriguing collection is designed to show how economists can play a more active role in designing and directing the nation's social institutions.
In a world where the reader is met with a barrage of conflicting and competing information, this book continues to provide a definitive guide to economics.
It dominates our decision-making for the future, guides multi-billion-dollar investments, and shapes our responses to climate change, inequality, and other environmental and social challenges that define our times.
Issues in Economics is structured around major policy issues and is divided into three parts: "Introduction to Issues in Economics," "Microeconomic Issues," and "Macroeconomic Issues.
Today, the most pressing challenges for public economics are of macroeconomic nature: pensions, debt, income distribution, and fiscal sustainability.
Research assistance was provided by Logan Bender, Andrew Brod, Laurie Cameron Craighead, Jaeden Graham, Jinshan Han, ... Francesco Filippucci, Kelly Goodman, Patrick Greenfield, Krishna Ramesh, Preeti Srinivasan, and Garence Staraci.
This title represents the most forward thinking and comprehensive review of development economics currently available.
Those who employ people, those who represent workers, those who make laws and those who elect them need economics but may have little time or desire to study it. This book makes economics easily available to everyone.
While the first edition presented the work of the Austrian School as the counter to the traditional (neoclassical) paradigm, the second edition widens the theoretical approaches considered to encompass all the major variants of what is ...
The essay is a comprehensive overview of the central themes of the book from a somewhat different perspective than in the book itself. It supplements the analysis in the book.