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Talking to my daughter about the economy or, how capitalism works - and how it fails
This book grew out of my Greek publisher?s invitation, back in 2013, to talk directly to young people about the economy. My reason for writing it was the conviction that the economy is too important to leave to the economists.If we want to build a bridge, better to leave it to the experts, to the engineers. If we need surgery, better to find a surgeon to operate. But books that popularize science are important in a world where the president of the United States wages open war against it and our children eschew science courses. Cultivating a broad public appreciation of science throws a protective shield around the scientific community that must produce the experts society needs. In this sense, the small volume here is quite different from those books. As a teacher of economics, I have always believed that if you are not able to explain the economy in a language young people can understand, then, quite simply, you are clueless yourself. With time, I recognized something else, a delicious contradiction about my own profession that reinforced this belief: the more scientific our models of the economy become, the less relation they bear to the real, existing economy out there. This is precisely the opposite of what obtains in physics, engineering and the rest of the real sciences, where increasing
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| Call Number | Location | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Tan 330 Var t | PSB lt.dasar - Pascasarjana | 1 |
| Penerbit | New York Farrar, Straus & Giroux., 2013 |
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| Edisi | - |
| Subjek | Economics Capitalism |
| ISBN/ISSN | 9780374538491 |
| Klasifikasi | NONE |
| Deskripsi Fisik | - |
| Info Detail Spesifik | - |
| Other Version/Related | Tidak tersedia versi lain |
| Lampiran Berkas | Tidak Ada Data |