The Soulful Science (eBook)

What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters - Revised Edition

Diane Coyle (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2009 | Revised Edition
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3368-9 (ISBN)

Infos

For many, Thomas Carlyle's put-down of economics as "e;the dismal science"e; rings true--especially in the aftermath of the crash of 2008. But Diane Coyle argues that economics today is more soulful than dismal, a more practical and human science than ever before. The Soulful Science describes the remarkable creative renaissance in economics, how economic thinking is being applied to the paradoxes of everyday life. This revised edition incorporates the latest developments in the field, including the rise of behavioral finance, the failure of carbon trading, and the growing trend of government bailouts. She also discusses such major debates as the relationship between economic statistics and presidential elections, the boundary between private choice and public action, and who is to blame for today's banking crisis.

Autor

Diane Coyle is a writer and Harvard economics PhD. A member of the BBC Trust and the UK Competition Commission, and a visiting professor at the University of Manchester, she also runs an economic consulting firm, Enlightenment Economics.

Produkt-Details

• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: Age of Discovery • Agricultural subsidy • Aid • Amartya Sen • Angus Maddison • Applied Psychology • Auction • Avinash Dixit • Behavioral Economics • Bounded Rationality • burglary • business economics • Calculation • Capitalism • Categorization • Central Bank • Chief economist • Colonization • Committee of Five • Comparative Advantage • Competition • Computer • consumer • Consumption (Economics) • Cornell University • Corporate Structure • Credit Crunch • Criticism of capitalism • Currency • Customer • Daniel McFadden • Dani Rodrik • debt • Decision-Making • Demographic Transition • Demonstration (protest) • developed country • Development Economics • Drawback • Dutch Disease • Dwelling • Economic Development • Economic equilibrium • Economic Growth • Economic History • Economic indicator • economic interventionism • Economic Policy • Economics • economist • economy • Electronic Business • Emergence • Emerging Technologies • Emissions Trading • Employment • Endogenous Growth Theory • Entrepreneurship • Environmental economics • estimation • Externality • Federal Reserve Bank • Finance • Financial crisis of 2007–08 • first-mover advantage • Futures contract • George Stigler • Globalization • Governance • Great Divergence • Homo economicus • Human Capital • Ideology • Incentive • income • income distribution • Income Tax • Indication (medicine) • industrialisation • Industrial Organization • Inflation • Information asymmetry • Information Economics • Institution • Institutional Economics • insurance • Interest Rate • Investor • inward investment • John Maynard Keynes • John Ruskin • John Stuart Mill • Joseph Stiglitz • Legislation • Longevity • Long run and short run • Machine Tool • Macroeconomics • Mainstream economics • Malthusian Trap • marginal utility • Mark Granovetter • Methodology • Microeconomics • Microfoundations • Milberg • Modernity • National Accounts • Negotiation • Neoclassical Economics • Neoliberalism • of education • opportunity cost • optimism • organization • Partha Dasgupta • paternalism • Paul Krugman • personal network • Philosophy • Pigovian Tax • Policy • Political Science • Politician • Politics • pollution • Poverty • Prediction • Price elasticity of demand • price mechanism • Private Property • Productivity • Profit (economics) • Public Policy • purchasing power • Quantity • Rational Choice Theory • Recession • Regulation • right-wing politics • Robert Kuttner • saving • Scarcity • Self-Interest • Social capital • Social Science • Social Security (United States) • Society • Sociology • space shuttle • Statistic • Structural adjustment • Superiority (short story) • Tax • Technology • Thaler • third world • Thomas Robert Malthus • Trade-off • truck driver • Uncertainty • Unemployment • Utility • Voting • Washington Consensus • well-being • World Bank • World Bank Group • World War II • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3368-X / 140083368X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3368-9 / 9781400833689