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From Poverty to Prosperity
Arnold Kling
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Description for From Poverty to Prosperity
Hardcover. Conventional economists told us an incomplete story about Economics, one leaning on the comfortable precision of mathematical abstraction and ignoring the messy complexity of the real world, with all of its uncertainties, unknowns, and evolution. This book tells a story about huge differences in the standard of living across time and borders. Num Pages: 328 pages. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 656.
The discipline of economics is not what it used to be. Over the last few decades, economists have begun a revolutionary reorientation in how we look at the world, and this has major implications for politics, policy, and our everyday lives. For years, conventional economists told us an incomplete story that leaned on the comfortable precision of mathematical abstraction and ignored the complexity of the real world with all of its uncertainties, unknowns, and ongoing evolution. What economists left out of the story were the positive forces of creativity, innovation, and advancing technology that propel economies forward. Economists did ... Read more
The discipline of economics is not what it used to be. Over the last few decades, economists have begun a revolutionary reorientation in how we look at the world, and this has major implications for politics, policy, and our everyday lives. For years, conventional economists told us an incomplete story that leaned on the comfortable precision of mathematical abstraction and ignored the complexity of the real world with all of its uncertainties, unknowns, and ongoing evolution. What economists left out of the story were the positive forces of creativity, innovation, and advancing technology that propel economies forward. Economists did ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Encounter Books,USA United States
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781594032509
SKU
V9781594032509
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99-15
About Arnold Kling
ARNOLD KLING was an economist on the staff of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 1980-1986 and served as a senior economist at Freddie Mac from 1986-1994. Kling is the author of several books, most recently Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care. He lives in Maryland. NICK SCHULZ is DeWitt Wallace ... Read more
Reviews for From Poverty to Prosperity
"Over the past decades, many economists have sought to define the differences between the physical goods economy and the modern protocol economy. In 2000, Larry Summers, then the Treasury secretary, gave a speech called "The New Wealth of Nations," laying out some principles. Leading work has been done by Douglass North of Washington University, Robert Fogel of the University of ... Read more