Book description
The Great Economists succinctly and accurately describes the thinking of the world’s leading economic thinkers. It captures their key beliefs, explores their backgrounds, assesses their thinking and evaluates their legacy. It explains the schools of thought named after them and clearly shows how they influence our everyday lives.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- About the author
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Adam Smith - the ‘founding father’ of economics
- Chapter 2: David Ricardo - from immigrant to gentleman
- Chapter 3: Karl Marx - the fallen hero?
- Chapter 4: Alfred Marshall - microeconomics arrives
- Chapter 5: John Maynard Keynes - the rise, fall, rise … and fall
- Chapter 6: Friedrich Hayek - the archetypal libertarian
- Chapter 7: Milton Friedman - father of monetarism
- Chapter 8: Paul Samuelson - the neoclassical synthesist
- Chapter 9: Gary Becker - economics in the real world
- Chapter 10: Daniel Kahneman - economic psychologist
- Index
Product information
- Title: The Great Economists
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2014
- Publisher(s): FT Publishing International
- ISBN: 9781292009445
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