品牌：George P. Brockway
基本信息
·出版社：W. W. Norton & Company
·页码：160 页码
·出版日：1996年
·ISBN：9780393315066
·条码：9780393315066
·装帧：平装
·英语：英语
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This is a study of economics, which challenges politicians and economists to justify their economic miracle cures, and attempts to make the vagaries of economics accessible to the general reader. Taken from the author's column in "The New Leader", the collection of essays blends irony with common sense in criticizing mainstream economic thinking. Pointing out inconsistencies and hypocrises, Brockway denounces so-called "normal" trends, refusing to divorce economic issues from the human beings who are affected by them.
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From Publishers Weekly
Brockway attacks the sacred cows of capitalist economics, such as the necessity of unemployment and the all-powerfulness of supply and demand in determining costs.
Copyright 1996 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Brockway writes the monthly column "The Dismal Science" for The New Leader; this collection of essays, which appeared in the magazine in the late 1980s and early 1990s, is still relevant today. His lively and often witty style makes the discussion of economic issues anything but dismal; his analyses are incisive and succinct. Brockway effectively challenges such conventional doctrines that there are natural (and desirable) rates of unemployment, that high interest rates dampen inflation, and that a balanced federal budget is good for the economy. To the contrary, Brockway argues that full employment is better, that only speculators gain from high interest rates, and that government deficits aren't harmful, indeed often necessary. Recommended for large public libraries.
Harry Frumerman, formerly with Hunter Coll., New York
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
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