購物比價找書網找車網
FindBook  
 有 1 項符合

Fiscal Follies: A Little Fun with Economics (and Economists)

的圖書
Fiscal Follies: A Little Fun with Economics (and Economists) Fiscal Follies: A Little Fun with Economics (and Economists)

作者:Munson 
出版社:Defiance Press & Publishing
出版日期:2024-10-01
語言:英文   規格:精裝 / 308頁 / 22.86 x 15.24 x 1.91 cm / 普通級/ 初版
圖書選購
型式價格供應商所屬目錄
 
$ 1123
博客來 博客來
政治
圖書介紹 - 資料來源:博客來   評分:
圖書名稱:Fiscal Follies: A Little Fun with Economics (and Economists)

內容簡介

The High Priests of the Economics profession are a privileged and highly-compensated group. Their speeches are endlessly analyzed, their every public utterance transcribed and disseminated world-wide.


Yet they’re often wrong. How can this be? How can a profession that sends one of these high priests to Scandinavia each year to receive a Nobel Prize for achievements in "Economic Science" be so error-prone? The answer is quite simple: Economics, and the social and soft sciences more generally, are not science in the same sense that physics and chemistry and engineering are science.


In Fiscal Follies, author Daniel C. Munson pricks the bubble of scientific pretension that surrounds economics and finance and the social sciences generally in a humorous, light-hearted way, and points out precisely why these forms of "science" are so different.


Fiscal Follies details the problems inherent in attempting to study humanity using charts and graphs and math, offering instead the idea that movies, plays, novels, music lyrics, and the simple facts of economic history-without all the polarizing platitudes-- can teach economics more effectively. The writing is neither academic nor filled with business jargon, yet it explores many thorny economic issues: social insurance, inflation vs. deflation, socialism, Wall Street pay, gold-backed currency, income tax fairness, energy policy, business school proliferation, etc.


The economic significance of many well-known people is explored in these articles and essays: Babe Ruth, Charles Dickens, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, California governor Jerry Brown, playwright George Bernard Shaw and literary figures Fran Lebowitz and Herman Melville, philosophers Jean Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx, the Beatles, Mick Jagger, Swedish rock group ABBA, movie characters played by Greta Garbo, Edward G. Robinson, James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore, etc.


Light-hearted criticism of economic planning is done to try to have some FUN with this sometimes-pompous subject. Fiscal Follies seeks to appeal to a reading public that may be a little fed up with the economic and political "know-it-alls" who, though often wrong, still dominate policy discussions.


The book concludes with a chance encounter that forces our author to examine a specific moment in American economic and Civil War history that puts some of his ideas to the test.

 

詳細資料

  • ISBN:9781963102437
  • 規格:精裝 / 308頁 / 22.86 x 15.24 x 1.91 cm / 普通級 / 初版
  • 出版地:美國
贊助商廣告
 
 
金石堂 - 暢銷排行榜
膽大黨 (首刷限定版) 15
作者:龍幸伸
出版社:東立出版社
出版日期:2024-11-15
$ 247 
金石堂 - 暢銷排行榜
明天可能會愛你(02)
作者:山下街
出版社:青文出版社股份有限公司
出版日期:2024-11-04
$ 111 
金石堂 - 暢銷排行榜
艷事染惑
作者:越山弱衰
出版社:未來數位有限公司
出版日期:2024-11-13
$ 237 
博客來 - 暢銷排行榜
我不婚,然後呢?:黃越綏給單身世代的人生相談
出版日期:2024-11-11
$ 276 
 
Taaze 讀冊生活 - 新書排行榜
滿洲鴉片小隊(06)
作者:門馬司、鹿子
出版社:尖端出版
出版日期:2024-11-20
$ 140 
金石堂 - 新書排行榜
轉生競技場 ~且看奴隸用最弱技能攻略最強女角們建立後宮~ (2)
作者:漫畫:zunta、原作:はらわたさいぞう
出版社:台灣角川股份有限公司
出版日期:2024-11-21
$ 111 
博客來 - 新書排行榜
神奇柑仔店18:紅子與錢天堂的起點
作者:廣嶋玲子
出版社:親子天下
出版日期:2024-10-31
$ 284 
Taaze 讀冊生活 - 新書排行榜
穿越臺灣趣歷史2:從猴猴族到茶金,考古最有戲的臺灣史
作者:賴祥蔚 編著
出版社:時報文化出版企業股份有限公司
出版日期:2024-11-19
$ 266 
 

©2024 FindBook.com.tw -  購物比價  找書網  找車網  服務條款  隱私權政策