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Informationen zum Autor Dr Robbie Mochrie is an economics teacher with over 30 years of experience. Adept at equipping undergraduates with new skills, but comfortable working with business and political leaders, he has written a regular economics commentary for The National , while working closely with churches and credit unions. Klappentext An entertaining collection of biographical portraits of history's most influential and inspiring economists - from Aristotle to Keynes, and Karl Marx to Friedrich Hayek - and what they can teach us about the world today. We all live in the economy, whether we know it or not. The current cost-of-living crisis is an economic problem. Brexit might be a political project, but it has already changed how much money we have to spend and which products we can buy. Climate change may seem to be an ecological, or a social, or a technological problem, but it is also an economic problem, because its solution will transform the structure of the global economy.This book provides a readable and entertaining guide to the great thinkers who help us understand how economics works. It looks at how Aristotle invented the household budget, why Adam Smith wanted to abolish rent, and how modern Nobel prize winners shape the world around us. From the Greeks and Romans to the thinkers behind Enron and the financial crash of 2008, this is the ultimate guide to the greatest economists of the human age, and what their extraordinary thinking can teach us about how to see the world.Mochrie explores how the largely Western, White and male dominated field of economics is beginning to diversify, and shows how the great ideas of complex economics can be applied to our day-to-day existence. Vorwort An entertaining collection of biographical portraits of history's most influential and inspiring economists - from Aristotle to Keynes, and Karl Marx to Friedrich Hayek. Zusammenfassung An entertaining collection of biographical portraits of history's most influential and inspiring economists - from Aristotle to Keynes, and Karl Marx to Friedrich Hayek - and what they can teach us about the world today. We all live in the economy, whether we know it or not. The current cost-of-living crisis is an economic problem. Brexit might be a political project, but it has already changed how much money we have to spend and which products we can buy. Climate change may seem to be an ecological, or a social, or a technological problem, but it is also an economic problem, because its solution will transform the structure of the global economy.This book provides a readable and entertaining guide to the great thinkers who help us understand how economics works. It looks at how Aristotle invented the household budget, why Adam Smith wanted to abolish rent, and how modern Nobel prize winners shape the world around us. From the Greeks and Romans to the Nobel laureates who have shaped modern economics, this is the ultimate guide to how great thinkers have both enabled us to see the world and to imagine how to change it for the better.Mochrie explores how the largely Western, White and male dominated field of economics is beginning to diversify, and shows how the great ideas of complex economics can be applied to our day-to-day existence. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword 1. Aristotle - The Philosopher 2. Thomas Aquinas - The Angelic Doctor 3. Adam Smith - The Founder 4. Robert Malthus and David Ricardo - The Realist and the Theorist 5. John Stuart Mill - The Classical Liberal 6. Karl Marx - The Communist Visionary 7. William Stanley Jevons, Carl Menger and Léon Walras - Three Quiet Revolutionaries 8. Alfred Marshall - The Frail Master Craftsman 9. Joseph Schumpeter - Creator and Destroyer 10. John Maynard Keynes - The Last Amateur 11. Friedrich Hayek - A Very Different Type of Liberal 12. John von Neumann - The Most Brilliant Mathe...
