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  • The Great Economists

  • How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today
  • By: Linda Yueh
  • Narrated by: Linda Yueh
  • Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Great Economists written and read by Linda Yueh.

Since the days of Adam Smith, economists have grappled with a series of familiar problems - but often their ideas are hard to digest, before we even 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; and in The Great Economists she explains the key thoughts of history's greatest economists, how their lives and times affected their ideas, how our lives have been influenced by their work, and how they could help 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 through Joan Robinson and Milton Friedman to 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 does the work of John Maynard Keynes, who argued for government spending to create full employment, help us think about state investment? And with globalisation in trouble, what can we learn about handling Brexit and Trumpism?

In one accessible volume, this expert new voice provides an overarching guide to the biggest questions of our time. The Great Economists includes: Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, Alfred Marshall, Irving Fisher, John Maynard Keynes, Joseph Schumpeter, Friedrich Hayek, Joan Robinson, Milton Friedman, Douglass North and Robert Solow.

©2018 Linda Yueh (P)2018 Penguin Audio
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Critic Reviews

"The best place to start to learn about the very greatest economists of all time." (Professor Tyler Cowen, author of The Complacent Class and The Great Stagnation

"Economics students, like others, can learn a lot from this book." (Professor Paul Collier, author of The Bottom Billion)

"Not only a great way to learn in an easily readable manner about some of the greatest economic influences of the past, but also a good way to test your own a priori assumptions about some of the big challenges of our time." (Lord Jim O'Neill, former Chairman at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, former UK Treasury Minister, and author of The Growth Map)

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Great overview of economic thought

For those who wish to learn about the key people and milestones in the development of economic thought. Excellent links to key economic event in the world over the past century.

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