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The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today

內容簡介

內容簡介 An expert new voice presents an overarching account of the biggest questions of our time - all in one accessible bookSince the days of Adam Smith, economists have grappled with a series of familiar problems - but often their ideas are hard to digest, even before we try to apply them to today's issues. Linda Yueh is renowned for her combination of erudition, as an accomplished economist herself, and accessibility, as a leading writer and broadcaster in this field. In The Great Economists she explains the key thoughts of history's greatest economists, how our lives have been influenced by their ideas and how they could help us with the policy challenges that we face today.In the light of current economic problems, and in particular economic growth, Yueh explores the thoughts of economists from Adam Smith and David Ricardo to contemporary academics Douglass North and Robert Solow. Along the way, she asks, for example, what do the ideas of Karl Marx tell us about the likely future for the Chinese economy? How do the ideas of John Maynard Keynes, who argued for government spending to create full employment, help us think about state intervention in boosting investment and productivity? And with globalisation in trouble, what can we learn about handling Brexit and Trumpism?The Great Economists includes:Adam SmithDavid RicardoKarl MarxAlfred MarshallIrving FisherJohn Maynard KeynesJoseph SchumpeterFriedrich HayekJoan RobinsonMilton FriedmanDouglass NorthRobert Solow

作者介紹

作者介紹 Linda YuehDr. Linda Yueh is a Fellow in Economics at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University, Adjunct Professor of Economics at London Business School and Visiting Professor of Economics at Peking University.She is Visiting Senior Fellow at IDEAS, the London School of Economics' foreign policy think tank, and serves on the supervisory Policy Committee of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and Political Science.Previously, she was Chief Business Correspondent for BBC News and host of Talking Business with Linda Yueh on BBC World News and BBC News Channel based in Singapore. She had been Economics Editor and anchor at Bloomberg TV in London.In addition to hosting several programs and documentaries for the BBC, Dr. Yueh has advised the World Bank, the European Commission, Asian Development Bank, and the World Economic Forum in Davos, among others.Previously, she was an attorney at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New YorkLinda can be found on Twitter @lindayueh.

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