24%OFF
The Price of Fish, New Edition: A New Approach to Wicked Economics and Better Decisions
Ian Harris
€ 19.99
€ 15.10
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for The Price of Fish, New Edition: A New Approach to Wicked Economics and Better Decisions
Paperback. In THE PRICE OF FISH Michael Mainelli and Ian Harris examine in a unique way the world's most abiding and wicked problems and go on to suggest that it is not the circumstances that are too complex but our way of reading them that is too simple. Too simple and often wrong. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: KC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 136 x 25. Weight in Grams: 430.
In The Price of Fish, Michael Mainelli and Ian Harris examine in a unique way the world's most abiding and wicked problems sustainability, global warming, over-fishing, overpopulation, the pensions crisis; all of which are characterized by a set of messy, circular, aggressive and peculiarly long-term problems and go on to suggest that it is not the circumstances that are too complex, but our way of reading them that is too simple. Too simple and often wrong.
The authors aim to blend four streams choice, economics, systems and evolution in a combination they believe is the key to making ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
424g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857886221
SKU
V9781857886221
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About Ian Harris
Educated at Harvard, Michael Mainelli is Commerce Professor Emeritus and Fellow at Gresham College (founding home of the Royal Society and former home to Christopher Wren). He is also Visiting Professor at LSE and was responsible for creating the London Accord the world's leading research cooperative into environmental, social and governance investment. He is the co-founder of Z/Yen, the City ... Read more
Reviews for The Price of Fish, New Edition: A New Approach to Wicked Economics and Better Decisions
In this thought-provoking and enlightening book, Mainelli and Harris highlight a point that economists too often forget: that economics is, at its heart, the study of human behaviour, and that both commerce and its wicked sister, finance, mean nothing unless they are connected to people and society.
Bill Emmott, Former-Editor of the Economist We have all discovered, painfully, that ... Read more
Bill Emmott, Former-Editor of the Economist We have all discovered, painfully, that ... Read more