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Economists --- Economistes --- Biography --- Dictionaries --- Biographie --- Dictionnaires anglais --- Dictionaries. --- AA / International- internationaal --- 08 --- 330.08 --- Biografieën en memoires. --- Economisten. --- Social scientists --- Biography&delete& --- Biografieën en memoires --- Economisten --- Economists - Biography - Dictionaries. --- Economists - Biography - Dictionaries

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330.08 --- 330.2 --- NL / Netherlands - Nederland - Pays Bas --- AA / International- internationaal --- Economisten. --- Economische analyse en research. Theorie van de informatie. --- Economisten --- Economische analyse en research. Theorie van de informatie

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Economists make confident assertions in op-ed columns and on cable news-so why are their explanations often at odds with equally confident assertions from other economists? And why are all economic predictions so rarely borne out? Harnessing his frustration with these contradictions, Jonathan Schlefer set out to investigate how economists arrive at their opinions. While economists cloak their views in the aura of science, what they actually do is make assumptions about the world, use those assumptions to build imaginary economies (known as models), and from those models generate conclusions. Their models can be useful or dangerous, and it is surprisingly difficult to tell which is which. Schlefer arms us with an understanding of rival assumptions and models reaching back to Adam Smith and forward to cutting-edge theorists today. Although abstract, mathematical thinking characterizes economists' work, Schlefer reminds us that economists are unavoidably human. They fall prey to fads and enthusiasms and subscribe to ideologies that shape their assumptions, sometimes in problematic ways.Schlefer takes up current controversies such as income inequality and the financial crisis, for which he holds economists in large part accountable. Although theorists won international acclaim for creating models that demonstrated the inherent instability of markets, ostensibly practical economists ignored those accepted theories and instead relied on their blind faith in the invisible hand of unregulated enterprise. Schlefer explains how the politics of economics allowed them to do so. The Assumptions Economists Make renders the behavior of economists much more comprehensible, if not less irrational.

Economics --- Economists --- 330 --- Social scientists --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- E-books --- Economics. --- Economists. --- 330.08 --- 330.1 --- 331.31 --- AA / International- internationaal --- Economisten --- Domein en natuur van de staathuishoudkunde --- Economisch beleid

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This volume contains eleven essays on Johann Heinrich Gottlob von Justi's concepts of the modern economy. These essays reflect both Justi's life and professional work, focusing on his ideas on economics and social sciences. Interesting are the aspects of his biography that gave rise to the development of his economic thought. Apart from Justi's personal background, this book contains the beginning of modern economics because Justi's philosophy was linked to government, labour, morality, health and finally the good society. Justi, throughout his life, had a dual career of being on the one hand a prolific writer and educator, on the other hand an administrator in the core state business of mining, then an important revenue source, and he typically combined the two. He gave two inaugural lectures in 1750 in front of Queen and Empress Maria Theresia. The lecture on cameral sciences is truly the beginning of modern economics: Justi was of the opinion that the happiness of the state would be increased if the number of happy and healthy persons would increase. For this reason, health was a major focus of his attention long before the advent of health economics. The main benefit the reader will derive from the book is an understanding of how economics developed as a separate science. Furthermore, they will see how Justi laid the foundation for policy sciences, the specialty of many schools of governement today.

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Economic schools --- Economists --- 330.1 --- -Nobel prizes --- -AA / International- internationaal --- 08 --- 330.08 --- Awards --- Social scientists --- Economische grondbegrippen. Algemene begrippen in de economie --- Biography --- Biografieën en memoires. --- Economisten. --- Nobel Prizes. --- 330.1 Economische grondbegrippen. Algemene begrippen in de economie --- Nobel Prizes --- AA / International- internationaal --- Biografieën en memoires --- Economisten