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Title: The Accidental Theorist and Other Dispatches from the Dismal Science by Paul Krugman ISBN: 0-393-31887-7 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.29 (31 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent book, super fast delivery
Comment: Excellent book, super fast delivery
Rating: 5
Summary: for beginners in economics
Comment: I've studied religion most of my life; since religion matters to almost everyone, almost everyone has an opinion about it, and I've seen first-hand that most popular opinions are poorly informed, at best. So I am prepared to believe that the same can be true of other intellectual fields.
Like religion, economics matters to most people, and most of us don't know much about it. But I wanted to begin to understand economics, and one of my brilliant friends (a Yale guy who does math for a hedge fund) told me that this book was the place to start. His recommendation should mean more to you than mine!
He was right. I now have some basic ideas about things like monetary policy (why what the Fed does matters), currency speculation, supply-side economics, and labor markets. Of course there is a lot more to economics; this book is only a beginning. But it is readable, and well-explained.
Let me recommend reading the tutorials at Investopedia.com as well. They were helpful to me.
Now I'm at least not a total financial ignoramus, and I look forward to exploring economics more!
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent! Definitely a classic!
Comment: This book is essentially a collection of Krugman's short articles from various sources in 1996 and 1997. I read some of them online after the 97 Asian Crisis. Today is 24th Oct 2002. What, and simply all, he said are still true today. He's a genius and really deserves a Nobel prize. To me, he already is. I think it becomes more appropriate to quote the praise of a Nobel Laureatet from the back cover of the book than to write more myself:-(I checked that it's not on the editorial review here on Amazon)
"When it comes to popularized economic wisdom, there are a lot of balloons of ignorance out there, many of them reinforced by self interest and self confidence. Fortunately Paul Krugman is also out there, popping those balloons with intelligence, style and wit. You can learn a great deal, about economics and otherwise, by reading these delightful essays."
Robert M. Solow, Nobel Laureate
MIT
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Title: The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century by Paul Krugman ISBN: 0393058506 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Return of Depression Economics by Paul R. Krugman ISBN: 0393320367 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 15 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Peddling Prosperity: Economic Sense and Nonsense in an Age of Diminished Expectations by Paul Krugman ISBN: 0393312925 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Pop Internationalism by Paul Krugman ISBN: 0262611333 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 07 February, 1997 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Age of Diminished Expectations, Third Edition: U.S. Economic Policy in the 1990s by Paul Krugman ISBN: 0262611341 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 08 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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