Economics: A New Introduction - Softcover

Stretton, Hugh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745315313 ISBN 13: 9780745315317

Publisher: Pluto Press, 1999

Synopsis

This book provides a fresh introduction to real economics. Highlighting the complex and changing nature of economic activity, this wide-ranging text employs a pragmatic mix of old and new methods to examine the role of values and theoretical beliefs in economic life and in economists’ understanding of it.

It attends to the problems which have come with high productivity, rapidly changing technology and skills, changing proportions of earning and non-earning years in most people’s lives, and a faltering revolution in childhood and parenting which has brought stress and over-work for many women.

It addresses such issues as rising poverty, inequality, insecurity and the slow progress of environmental reform. In focusing on such abuses of affluence the text draws on institutional, Keynesian, green and feminist theories, while emphasising all approaches to understanding economic life.

About this title

About the Author

Hugh Stretton studied law and classics at Melbourne University, history at Oxford University, and
economics as a visiting fellow at Princeton University. He has been a Fellow and Dean of Balliol College, Oxford and taught at Smith College, Massachusetts, Professor of History and Research Fellow in Economics at the University of Adelaide. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academies of the Humanities and the Social Sciences. His most recent book is Public Goods, Public Enterprise, Public Choice: Theoretical Foundations of the Contemporary Attack on Government (coauthored with Lionel Orchard).

Edition details

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0745315313
• ISBN 13: 9780745315317
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 864