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The Profit Doctrine
eBook - Economists of the Neoliberal Era
ISBN/EAN: 9781783719938
Umbreit-Nr.: 217843
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 224 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 20.12.2016
Auflage: 1/2016
E-Book
Format: PDF
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- The economics profession has a lot to answer for. After the late 1970s, the ideas of influential economists have justified policies that have made the world more prone to economic crisis, remarkably less equal, more polluted and less secure than it might be. How could ideas and policies that proved to be such an abject failure come to dominate the economic landscape?<br>&#xa0;<br> By critically examining the work of the most famous economists of the neoliberal period including Alan Greenspan, Milton Friedman, and Robert Lucas, the authors Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson demonstrate that many of those who rose to prominence did so primarily because of their defence of, and contribution to, rising corporate profits and not their ability to predict or explain economic events.<br><br> An important and controversial book, The Profit Doctrine&#xa0;exposes the uses and abuses of mainstream economic canons, identify those responsible and reaffirm the primacy of political economy.
- Kurztext
- A comprehensive account of the role of professional economists in the economic, social and environmental crises of the early 21st century