A history of economic thought /
Study of the grand ideas in economics has a perpetual intellectual fascination in it's own right. It can also have practical relevance, as the global economic downturn that began in 2007 reminds us. For several decades, the economics establishment had been dismissive of Keynesianism, arguing th...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Middletown, Conn. :
Wesleyan University Press,
2010.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Study of the grand ideas in economics has a perpetual intellectual fascination in it's own right. It can also have practical relevance, as the global economic downturn that began in 2007 reminds us. For several decades, the economics establishment had been dismissive of Keynesianism, arguing that the world had moved beyond the "depression economics" with which it dealt. Keynesian economics, however, has now staged a comeback as governments attempt to formulate policy responses to the Great Recession of the first decade of the twenty-first century. |
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| Item Description: | Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Originally published by Penguin Books Ltd., 1967. Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 electronic text (266 pages) :) : digital fil |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780819569974 |