#220 - Alessandro Roncaglia - The Wealth of Ideas

Author or Editor: Alessandro Roncaglia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
ISBN: 978-0-511-11348-2
Pages: 582
Size: 5.91MB

The idea underlying this work is that the history of economic thought is essential for understanding the economy, which constitutes a central aspect of human societies. Confronted with complex, ever-changing realities, the different lines of research developed in the past are rich in suggestions for anyone trying to interpret economic phenomena, even for those tackling questions of immediate relevance.

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#169 - Andrew Glyn - Capitalism Unleashed

Author or Editor: Andrew Glyn
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Published: 2006
Pages: 234
Size: 1.40MB

Low inflation, quiescent industrial relations, freedom for capital to chase profitable opportunities without restraint and the domination of market-based solutions have become familiar features of the economic landscape of the rich economies. When such a pattern becomes firmly established it soon acquires the status of business as usual. Yet 30 years ago inflation was rising, profits were squeezed, trades unions were bargaining aggressively and parties of the left were actively discussing ideas for deeper state intervention in industry. A huge shift in economic policies and behaviour was needed to launch our economies on their new trajectory. This book provides a short history of how this transformation was achieved and examines the impact on growth, stability and equality of letting free enterprise off the leash.

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#126 - E.Ray Canterbery - A Brief History Of Economics

Author or Editor: E.Ray Canterbery
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co. Re. Ltd.
Published: 2001
Pages: 481
Size: 25.5MB

This book is not simply an annotated roster of the Society of Dead Economists. As living economists grapple with modern economic problems and begin to alter their views, more and more readers are discovering a need for transitional books, books that bridge the gap between what economics has been and what it is becoming. A Brief History of Economics: Artful Approaches to the Dismal Science reflects this desire for a bridge over sometimes troubled waters.
Because the old masters of economics imagined with a broad social brush and used lively real-world examples, they are easier to understand than many modern writers, so I believe that this book is fully accessible to beginning readers in economics. At the other extreme, readers who approach this volume with a sophisticated understanding of economic theory but little, if any, exposure to the history of thought can now become acquainted with some of the most fascinating personalities of the ages. An inquiring mind is the only prerequisite.

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#72 - Alfonso Novales, Esther Fernández and Jesús Ruiz - Economic Growth

Author or Editor: Alfonso Novales, Esther Fernández and Jesús Ruiz
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009
Pages: 528

Dynamic, stochastic models with optimizing agents have become a standard tool for policy design and evaluation at central banks and governments around the world. They are also increasingly used as the main reference for forecasting purposes. Such models can incorporate general equilibrium assumptions, as it was the case with Modern Business Cycle Theory, or different types of market frictions, in the form of price rigidity or monopolistic competition, as in the New Keynesian Macroeconomics. These models can all be considered as special cases of models of economic growth, and the theoretical and computational methods contained in this book are a first step to get started in this area.

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#70 - Mark Casson - The Entrepreuner

Author or Editor: Mark Casson
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
Published: 2003
Pages: 271

We all of us know someone who is an entrepreneur. He may be a property developer, a small businessman, or just someone who knows how to ‘turn a fast buck’. Perhaps he buys secondhand Jaguar cars that are destined for the scrapheap, does them up and sells them to the Japanese. Or he buys unwanted books from publishers and sells them at ‘unrepeatable’ bargain prices from a high-street shop.

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#69 - Murray N. Rothbard - Making Economic Sense

Author or Editor: Murray N. Rothbard
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Published: 1995
Pages: 380

One of the persistent Clintonian themes of the 1992 campaign still endures: if “it’s the economy, stupid,” then why hasn’t President Clinton received the credit among the public for our glorious economic recovery? Hence the Clintonian conclusion that the resounding Democratic defeat in November, 1994, was due to their failure to “get the message out” to the public, the message being the good news of our current economic prosperity.

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#68 - Ron Paul - Pillars of Prosperity

Author or Editor: Ron Paul
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Published: 2008
Pages: 475

Mr. Speaker, I have a deep concern for the direction in which our country is going. I have expressed this concern by pointing out the political and economic contradictions that surround us and have suggested that these contradictions merely are manifestations of philosophic errors made by our intellectual leaders. Although the country currently is more or less in a euphoric mood, I am convinced the errors we are making today will eventually result in a severe political and economic crisis.

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#62 - Milton & Rose Friedman - Free To Choose - A Personal Statement

Author or Editor: Milton & Rose Friedman
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.
Published: 1980
Pages: 178

Ever since the first settlement of Europeans in the New World America has been a magnet for people seeking adventure, fleeing from tyranny, or simply trying to make a better life for themselves and their children.
An initial trickle swelled after the American Revolution and the establishment of the United States of America and became a flood in the nineteenth century, when millions of people streamed across the Atlantic, and a smaller number across the Pacific, driven by misery and tyranny, and attracted by the promise of freedom and affluence.

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#58 - Alan Greenspan - The Age of Turbulence

Author or Editor: Alan Greenspan
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 2007
Pages: 532

On the afternoon of September 11, 2001, I was flying back to Washington on Swissair Flight 128, returning home from a routine international bankers' meeting in Switzerland. I'd been moving about the cabin when the chief of the security detail that escorted me on trips abroad, Bob Agnew, stopped me in the aisle. Bob is an ex-Secret Service man, friendly but not especially talkative. At that moment, he was looking grim. "Mr. Chairman," he said quietly, "the captain needs to see you up front. Two planes have flown into the World Trade Center." I must have had a quizzical look on my face because he added, "I'm not joking."

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#44 - Thomas L. Friedman - The Lexus and the Olive Tree

Author or Editor: Thomas L. Friedman
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 2000
Pages: 236

On the morning of December 8,1997, the government of Thailand announced that it was closing 56 of the country's 58 top finance houses. Almost overnight, these private banks had been bankrupted by the crash of the Thai currency, the baht. The finance houses had borrowed heavily in U.S. dollars and lent those dollars out to Thai businesses for the building of hotels, office blocks, luxury apartments and factories. The finance houses all thought they were safe because the Thai government was committed to keeping the Thai baht at a fixed rate against the dollar. But when the government failed to do so, in the wake of massive global speculation against the baht-triggered by a dawning awareness that the Thai economy was not as strong as previously believed the Thai currency plummeted by 30 percent.

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#39 - Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin - Empire of the Debt

Author or Editor: Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Published: 2006
Pages: 370

Many years ago, when the United States was still a modest republic, American presidents were likewise available to almost anyone who wanted to shoot them. Thomas Jefferson went for a walk down Pennsylvania Avenue, alone, and spoke to anyone who came up to him. John Adams used to swim naked in the Potomac. A woman reporter got him to talk to her by sitting on his clothes and refusing to budge.

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