Economics Explained: Everything You Need to Know About How the Economy Works and Where It's Going

Heilbroner, Robert L.; Thurow, Lester

ISBN 10: 1439500231 ISBN 13: 9781439500231

Synopsis

Containing about 30 percent new material, this edition of ECONOMICS EXPLAINED offers readers not only an invaluable primer on economic theory, but a clear understanding of the causes and treatments of the problems confronting us today, as well as the possible risks and the potential rewards we face in the future. Previous Edition ISBN: 0671884220

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Review

The Boston Globe An excellent course in the history of capitalism and socialism, of growth, progress, and decline.

Ms. At last, a patient but not condescending, detailed but not recondite, conversational but not glib discussion of the factors and terms that any reader of the daily newspaper needs to understand.

Robert B. Reich, former Secretary of Labor and author of Locked in the Cabinet In this delightfully written primer, Heilbroner and Thurow sweep away the debris of economic theory to expose the political and social choices lying just below it.

About the Author

Robert Heilbroner, one of America's foremost economists, is the author of THE WORDLY PHILOSOPHERS and other books. Lester Thurow is the author of many books including Head to Head. He teaches at MIT.

Edition details

• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1439500231
• ISBN 13: 9781439500231
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 240