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Author:

Yueh, Linda Y. (Linda Yi-Chuang), author.

Title:

What would the great economists do? : how twelve brilliant minds would solve today's biggest problems / Linda Yueh.

Edition:

First U.S. edition

Publisher:

Picador,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

357 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subject:

Economic history.
Economic policy.
Economists.

Other Titles:

Great economists

Notes:

"Originally published in Great Britain as The Great Economists by Viking, a part of the Penguin Random House group of companies."--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-331) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Great economists on our economic challenges -- Adam Smith: Should the government rebalance the economy? -- David Ricardo: Do trade deficits matter? -- Karl Marx: Can China become rich? -- Alfred Marshall: Is inequality inevitable? -- Irving Fisher: Are we at risk of repeating the 1930s? -- John Maynard Keynes: To invest of not to invest? -- Joseph Schumpeter: What drives innovation? -- Friedrich Hayek: What can we learn from financial crises? -- Joan Robinson: Why are wages so low? -- Milton Friedman: Are central banks doing too much? -- Douglass North: Why are so few countries prosperous? -- Robert Solow: Do we face a slow-growth future? -- Epilogue: The future of globalization.

Summary:

"A timely exploration of the life and work of world-changing thinkers--from Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes--and how their ideas would solve the great economic problems we face today." -- Amazon.com.

ISBN:

9781250180537
1250180538

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1000364848

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

CDPF771 -- Clive Public Library (Clive)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

TKPE492 -- Maquoketa Public Library (Maquoketa)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)