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John M. Legge shows the many ways in which the real world diverges from economics textbooks. He argues that mainstream economic theory took a disastrous turn 140 years ago, when it attempted to use calculus to explain human behaviour.
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John M. Legge shows the many ways in which the real world diverges from economics textbooks. He argues that mainstream economic theory took a disastrous turn 140 years ago, when it attempted to use calculus to explain human behaviour.
Produktdetails
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- Verlag: Nordic Africa Institute
- Seitenzahl: 336
- Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2015
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 23mm
- Gewicht: 544g
- ISBN-13: 9781412857161
- ISBN-10: 1412857163
- Artikelnr.: 43023379
- Verlag: Nordic Africa Institute
- Seitenzahl: 336
- Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2015
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 23mm
- Gewicht: 544g
- ISBN-13: 9781412857161
- ISBN-10: 1412857163
- Artikelnr.: 43023379
John M. Legge has taught innovation and entrepreneurship for the last twenty-five years. Previously, he worked in the engineering and computer industries in design, development, implementation, marketing, and strategic planning.
Preface
Note on Measurements
Acknowledgments
1 Uses and Abuses of Economics
Textbook Economics
Economics and the Environment
Economics and Society
Politics
Economics and Infallibility
Economic Miracles
Class War
Models and Reality
2 Names to Reckon With
The Classical Economists
Adam Smith
David Ricardo
Thomas Malthus
Karl Marx
Neoclassical Economists
Background
Jevons and Walras
Alfred Marshall
Paul Samuelson
The Heroes
Schumpeter
Keynes
The Chicago School
Neoliberalism
Origins
Public Choice and Regulatory Capture
Milton Friedman
Ordo-liberalism
Neoliberalism Stage 3 in Practice
The Washington Consensus
3 Competition: Real or Perfect?
Perfect Competition
Teaching Perfection
The Welfare Flaw
The Mathematical Error
The Attractions of Perfect Competition
The F-twist
Realistic Competition
IO Economics
Monopolistic Competition
Price in the Real World
Representative Consumers?
Representative Firms?
Unique Attributes
Change and Continuity
4 Money and Banking
Fiat Currencies
Banking in Theory and in Practice
Fractional Reserve Banking
Dustytown, United States
Reality Turned Upside Down
Political Consequences
Regulated Banking
Saving and Investment
Interest
5 Macroeconomics
Crises Are Endogenous
Counterattack
Microfoundations
Drivers of Employment and Unemployment
Instability
Monetary Neutrality
The Politics of Trade
Trade in General
Contemporary Issues
Trade and Investment
6 Inflation
Prices and Wages
Innovation, Prices, and Employment
Origins of Inflation
Normal Inflation
Hyperinflation
Asset Price Inflation
The 1970s and After
The 1980s
The Great Moderation
The Politics of Inflation
7 The Great Recession and the Eurozone Crisis
How the Scene Was Set
Limitations on Liberalism
Enter Chaos and Complexity
The Great Depression
The Keynesian Revolution
Turbulence
Neoliberalism Ascendant
The Southeast Asian Crisis
Crisis Phase 1: Subprime
Crisis Phase 2: The Eurozone
8 The Labor Market
Classical Theory
Neoclassical Theory: Outline and Critique
The Inside/Outside Disparity
Labor Market Structure: The Galbraith Analysis
How It Really Works
Unemployment
Keynes on Unemployment
NAIRU and Full Employment
Education and Training
Equity Considerations
Matching Skills to Need
Winner Takes All?
Education and Experience
Policies and Results
Responding to the Skills Crisis
Proven Labor-Market Alternatives
France
Germany
Japan
9 The Engine of Growth
Growth in Theory
Schumpeter's Spiral Staircase
Neoclassical Growth Theory
Product Differentiation: Consumer Fraud or Valuable Innovation?
Innovation in
Note on Measurements
Acknowledgments
1 Uses and Abuses of Economics
Textbook Economics
Economics and the Environment
Economics and Society
Politics
Economics and Infallibility
Economic Miracles
Class War
Models and Reality
2 Names to Reckon With
The Classical Economists
Adam Smith
David Ricardo
Thomas Malthus
Karl Marx
Neoclassical Economists
Background
Jevons and Walras
Alfred Marshall
Paul Samuelson
The Heroes
Schumpeter
Keynes
The Chicago School
Neoliberalism
Origins
Public Choice and Regulatory Capture
Milton Friedman
Ordo-liberalism
Neoliberalism Stage 3 in Practice
The Washington Consensus
3 Competition: Real or Perfect?
Perfect Competition
Teaching Perfection
The Welfare Flaw
The Mathematical Error
The Attractions of Perfect Competition
The F-twist
Realistic Competition
IO Economics
Monopolistic Competition
Price in the Real World
Representative Consumers?
Representative Firms?
Unique Attributes
Change and Continuity
4 Money and Banking
Fiat Currencies
Banking in Theory and in Practice
Fractional Reserve Banking
Dustytown, United States
Reality Turned Upside Down
Political Consequences
Regulated Banking
Saving and Investment
Interest
5 Macroeconomics
Crises Are Endogenous
Counterattack
Microfoundations
Drivers of Employment and Unemployment
Instability
Monetary Neutrality
The Politics of Trade
Trade in General
Contemporary Issues
Trade and Investment
6 Inflation
Prices and Wages
Innovation, Prices, and Employment
Origins of Inflation
Normal Inflation
Hyperinflation
Asset Price Inflation
The 1970s and After
The 1980s
The Great Moderation
The Politics of Inflation
7 The Great Recession and the Eurozone Crisis
How the Scene Was Set
Limitations on Liberalism
Enter Chaos and Complexity
The Great Depression
The Keynesian Revolution
Turbulence
Neoliberalism Ascendant
The Southeast Asian Crisis
Crisis Phase 1: Subprime
Crisis Phase 2: The Eurozone
8 The Labor Market
Classical Theory
Neoclassical Theory: Outline and Critique
The Inside/Outside Disparity
Labor Market Structure: The Galbraith Analysis
How It Really Works
Unemployment
Keynes on Unemployment
NAIRU and Full Employment
Education and Training
Equity Considerations
Matching Skills to Need
Winner Takes All?
Education and Experience
Policies and Results
Responding to the Skills Crisis
Proven Labor-Market Alternatives
France
Germany
Japan
9 The Engine of Growth
Growth in Theory
Schumpeter's Spiral Staircase
Neoclassical Growth Theory
Product Differentiation: Consumer Fraud or Valuable Innovation?
Innovation in
Preface
Note on Measurements
Acknowledgments
1 Uses and Abuses of Economics
Textbook Economics
Economics and the Environment
Economics and Society
Politics
Economics and Infallibility
Economic Miracles
Class War
Models and Reality
2 Names to Reckon With
The Classical Economists
Adam Smith
David Ricardo
Thomas Malthus
Karl Marx
Neoclassical Economists
Background
Jevons and Walras
Alfred Marshall
Paul Samuelson
The Heroes
Schumpeter
Keynes
The Chicago School
Neoliberalism
Origins
Public Choice and Regulatory Capture
Milton Friedman
Ordo-liberalism
Neoliberalism Stage 3 in Practice
The Washington Consensus
3 Competition: Real or Perfect?
Perfect Competition
Teaching Perfection
The Welfare Flaw
The Mathematical Error
The Attractions of Perfect Competition
The F-twist
Realistic Competition
IO Economics
Monopolistic Competition
Price in the Real World
Representative Consumers?
Representative Firms?
Unique Attributes
Change and Continuity
4 Money and Banking
Fiat Currencies
Banking in Theory and in Practice
Fractional Reserve Banking
Dustytown, United States
Reality Turned Upside Down
Political Consequences
Regulated Banking
Saving and Investment
Interest
5 Macroeconomics
Crises Are Endogenous
Counterattack
Microfoundations
Drivers of Employment and Unemployment
Instability
Monetary Neutrality
The Politics of Trade
Trade in General
Contemporary Issues
Trade and Investment
6 Inflation
Prices and Wages
Innovation, Prices, and Employment
Origins of Inflation
Normal Inflation
Hyperinflation
Asset Price Inflation
The 1970s and After
The 1980s
The Great Moderation
The Politics of Inflation
7 The Great Recession and the Eurozone Crisis
How the Scene Was Set
Limitations on Liberalism
Enter Chaos and Complexity
The Great Depression
The Keynesian Revolution
Turbulence
Neoliberalism Ascendant
The Southeast Asian Crisis
Crisis Phase 1: Subprime
Crisis Phase 2: The Eurozone
8 The Labor Market
Classical Theory
Neoclassical Theory: Outline and Critique
The Inside/Outside Disparity
Labor Market Structure: The Galbraith Analysis
How It Really Works
Unemployment
Keynes on Unemployment
NAIRU and Full Employment
Education and Training
Equity Considerations
Matching Skills to Need
Winner Takes All?
Education and Experience
Policies and Results
Responding to the Skills Crisis
Proven Labor-Market Alternatives
France
Germany
Japan
9 The Engine of Growth
Growth in Theory
Schumpeter's Spiral Staircase
Neoclassical Growth Theory
Product Differentiation: Consumer Fraud or Valuable Innovation?
Innovation in
Note on Measurements
Acknowledgments
1 Uses and Abuses of Economics
Textbook Economics
Economics and the Environment
Economics and Society
Politics
Economics and Infallibility
Economic Miracles
Class War
Models and Reality
2 Names to Reckon With
The Classical Economists
Adam Smith
David Ricardo
Thomas Malthus
Karl Marx
Neoclassical Economists
Background
Jevons and Walras
Alfred Marshall
Paul Samuelson
The Heroes
Schumpeter
Keynes
The Chicago School
Neoliberalism
Origins
Public Choice and Regulatory Capture
Milton Friedman
Ordo-liberalism
Neoliberalism Stage 3 in Practice
The Washington Consensus
3 Competition: Real or Perfect?
Perfect Competition
Teaching Perfection
The Welfare Flaw
The Mathematical Error
The Attractions of Perfect Competition
The F-twist
Realistic Competition
IO Economics
Monopolistic Competition
Price in the Real World
Representative Consumers?
Representative Firms?
Unique Attributes
Change and Continuity
4 Money and Banking
Fiat Currencies
Banking in Theory and in Practice
Fractional Reserve Banking
Dustytown, United States
Reality Turned Upside Down
Political Consequences
Regulated Banking
Saving and Investment
Interest
5 Macroeconomics
Crises Are Endogenous
Counterattack
Microfoundations
Drivers of Employment and Unemployment
Instability
Monetary Neutrality
The Politics of Trade
Trade in General
Contemporary Issues
Trade and Investment
6 Inflation
Prices and Wages
Innovation, Prices, and Employment
Origins of Inflation
Normal Inflation
Hyperinflation
Asset Price Inflation
The 1970s and After
The 1980s
The Great Moderation
The Politics of Inflation
7 The Great Recession and the Eurozone Crisis
How the Scene Was Set
Limitations on Liberalism
Enter Chaos and Complexity
The Great Depression
The Keynesian Revolution
Turbulence
Neoliberalism Ascendant
The Southeast Asian Crisis
Crisis Phase 1: Subprime
Crisis Phase 2: The Eurozone
8 The Labor Market
Classical Theory
Neoclassical Theory: Outline and Critique
The Inside/Outside Disparity
Labor Market Structure: The Galbraith Analysis
How It Really Works
Unemployment
Keynes on Unemployment
NAIRU and Full Employment
Education and Training
Equity Considerations
Matching Skills to Need
Winner Takes All?
Education and Experience
Policies and Results
Responding to the Skills Crisis
Proven Labor-Market Alternatives
France
Germany
Japan
9 The Engine of Growth
Growth in Theory
Schumpeter's Spiral Staircase
Neoclassical Growth Theory
Product Differentiation: Consumer Fraud or Valuable Innovation?
Innovation in