Walter Lippmann - Public Economist

Unemployment, monetary and fiscal policy, and the merits and drawbacks of free markets were a few of the issues the journalist and public philosopher Walter Lippmann explained to the public during the Depression, when professional economists skilled at translating concepts for a lay audience were not yet on the scene, as Craufurd Goodwin shows.

About the author

Craufurd D. Goodwin was James B. Duke Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at Duke University.

Summary

Unemployment, monetary and fiscal policy, and the merits and drawbacks of free markets were a few of the issues the journalist and public philosopher Walter Lippmann explained to the public during the Depression, when professional economists skilled at translating concepts for a lay audience were not yet on the scene, as Craufurd Goodwin shows.

Product details

• Authors: Craufurd D Goodwin, Craufurd D. Goodwin, Goodwin Craufurd D.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.10.2014
• EAN: 9780674368132
• ISBN: 978-0-674-36813-2
• No. of pages: 424
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; USA, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Biography: business & industry, Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Economic history, History of the Americas, Biography: business and industry