Blunt Instrument: Why Economic Theory Can&Apos T Get Any Better We Need It Anyway Alex Rosenberg Mit Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Economics Business & Finance

Why Economic Theory With No Track-Record Of Predictive Success Is Still An Indispensable Tool For Protecting Civilized Life Has Never Gotten Any Better At Prediction Its Explanations Are Always After The Fact Mathematical Models Economists Have Devoted Themselves To More Than A Century Can T Be Improved Enhance Their Empirical Relevance But From This Research Program That Paid Off Very Useful Emerged Game It S Just What Society Needs Protect Itself Rapaciousness Condemns All Markets Fail In Blunt Instrument Alex Rosenberg Helps Explain Outsiders Exactly They Need Make Sense And Despite Failures Something We Should Understand Because Economy Affects Us Theorists Who Shape Good Or Ill Less Economist John Maynard Keynes Expressed Point Memorable Quotation: Practical Men Believe Quite Exempt Intellectual Influence Usually Slaves Some Defunct Book Draws Back Curtain Math Graphs Deliver Microeconomic Macroeconomic Demystifies Formidable Looking Equations Explaining Reasoning Behind So Decide On Importance Own Thinking About Finally Shows How Study Strategic Choice Outlandish Idealizations Most Importantly Illuminates Both Mitigates Real World Economies Improves Design Important Human Institutions Σελίδες: 248 Διαστάσεις: 15 2X15 2Cm