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How to think like an economist : great economists who shaped the world and what they can teach us / Robbie Mochrie.

Summary:

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 the greatest economic thinkers - Karl Marx, Maynard Keynes, and Friedrich Hayek, among many others - have enabled us to see the world differently, and how we can make it better.

Record details

ISBN: 9781399408622
Physical Description: 288 pages ; 22 cm
Publisher: London ; Bloomsbury Continuum, [2024]
Copyright: ©2024

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Includes index.

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Foreword 1. Aristotle -- The Philosopher 2. Thomas Aquinas -- The Angelic Doctor 3. Adam Smith -- The Founder 4. Robert Malthus and David Ricardo -- The Realist and the Theorist 5. John Stuart Mill -- The Classical Liberal 6. Karl Marx -- The Communist Visionary 7. William Stanley Jevons, Carl Menger and Léon Walras -- Three Quiet Revolutionaries 8. Alfred Marshall -- The Frail Master Craftsman 9. Joseph Schumpeter -- Creator and Destroyer 10. John Maynard Keynes -- The Last Amateur 11. Friedrich Hayek -- A Very Different Type of Liberal 12. John von Neumann -- The Most Brilliant Mathematician 13. Ronald Coase -- The Placid Observer 14. Milton Friedman -- The Monetarist 15. Paul Samuelson -- The American Keynes? 16. Herbert Simon -- The Social Scientific Realist 17. Thomas Schelling -- The Storyteller 18. Robert Solow -- Craftsman and Builder 19. Gary Becker -- The Unwavering Imperialist 20. Elinor Ostrom -- The Political Scientist 21. Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky -- Two Psychologists 22. Robert Lucas -- The Idealist 23. George Akerlof -- The Borrower 24. Esther Duflo -- The Experimenter.