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Economic Ideas You Should Forget

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Description for Economic Ideas You Should Forget Paperback. Editor(s): Frey, Bruno; Iselin, David. Num Pages: 140 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCA; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Reporting on cutting-edge advances in economics, this book presents a selection of commentaries that reveal the weaknesses of several core economics concepts. Economics is a vigorous and progressive science, which does not lose its force when particular parts of its theory are empirically invalidated; instead, they contribute to the accumulation of knowledge. By discussing problematic theoretical assumptions and drawing on the latest empirical research, the authors question specific hypotheses and reject major economic ideas from the Coase Theorem to Say's Law and Bayesianism. Many of these ideas remain prominent among politicians, economists and ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
166
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319474571
SKU
V9783319474571
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Ref
99-15

About Bruno S. Frey (Ed.)
Bruno S. Frey is Permanent Visiting Professor at the University of Basel. He was Professor of Economics at the University of Zurich from 1977-2012, Distinguished Professor of Behavioural Science at the Warwick Business School, UK from 2010-2013 and Senior Professor of Economics at Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen, Germany from 2013-2015. Frey is Research Director of CREMA - Centre for Research in ... Read more

Reviews for Economic Ideas You Should Forget
The result was a potpourri of short essays that span economic science and economic policy. (David Colander, Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 55 (3), September, 2017)

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