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:平裝 / 308頁 / 22.86 x 15.24 x 1.65 cm / 普通級/ 初版
圖書選購
型式價格供應商所屬目錄
 
$ 720
博客來 博客來
政治學與政治理論
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:9781963102505
  • 規格:平裝 / 308頁 / 22.86 x 15.24 x 1.65 cm / 普通級 / 初版
  • 出版地:美國
贊助商廣告
 
金石堂 - 今日66折
K線聖經:40年股市實戰、完整分析51種圖表、抓出15個轉機徵兆,你比市場更早看出買賣行情
作者:岩本秀雄
出版社:大是文化有限公司
出版日期:2016-11-02
66折: $ 238 
金石堂 - 今日66折
艾蜜莉.狄金生世界 套書(二冊):《這是我寫給世界的信【精裝版】》、《植物學家Anna Atkins復刻氰顯影盒卡》
作者:艾蜜莉.狄金生
出版社:漫遊者
出版日期:2021-06-16
66折: $ 681 
金石堂 - 今日66折
日日減醣超市料理攻略
作者:張晴琳(圈媽)
出版社:采實文化事業股份有限公司
出版日期:2020-08-05
66折: $ 238 
金石堂 - 今日66折
水族好朋友套書:《魚菜共生自學指南》+《親子玩水族》
作者:吳瑞梹
出版社:積木文化
出版日期:2022-10-22
66折: $ 634 
 
Taaze 讀冊生活 - 暢銷排行榜
抄寫英語的奇蹟:1天10分鐘,英語和人生都起飛
作者:林熙
出版社:如何出版
出版日期:2024-03-01
$ 300 
金石堂 - 暢銷排行榜
嫁入狼族~異種婚姻譚~Ⅱ (特裝版)
作者:犬居葉菜
出版社:東立出版社
出版日期:2024-10-23
$ 162 
博客來 - 暢銷排行榜
蔡康永的情商課:為你自己活一次
作者:蔡康永
出版社:如何
出版日期:2018-11-01
$ 276 
 
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
解讀攝影大師【長銷經典版】:認識他們的創作人生、觀點與作品觀看之道
作者:伊恩.傑佛瑞
出版社:原點出版
出版日期:2024-10-03
$ 525 
博客來 - 新書排行榜
童話裡的心理學
作者:鐘穎
出版社:楓樹林出版社
出版日期:2024-11-01
$ 331 
Taaze 讀冊生活 - 新書排行榜
金融市場這樣比喻你就懂 33個神比喻,讓你讀懂金融市場的遊戲規則與陷阱
作者:派帝.赫希
出版社:漫遊者文化
出版日期:2024-10-24
$ 266 
 

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