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The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel Peddling Prosperity: Economic Sense and Nonsense in the Age of Diminished Expectations by Paul Krugman Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
Hace 4 días · Adam Smith, Scottish social philosopher and political economist who is a towering figure in the history of economic thought, best known for his book An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776), the first comprehensive system of political economy.
Hace 4 días · Comparative and competitive advantages are dynamic by nature; they can be acquired or lost over time. As Harvard’s Michael Porter put it in 1990, “National prosperity is created, not inherited. It does not grow out of a country’s natural endowments, its labor pool, its interest rates, or its currency’s value, as classical economics ...
Hace 1 día · After his death Dives realised, too late, that God’s poor representatives had ‘often knocked at my bolted Gate’, but ‘my Pomp and Pride, my Feasts and Sports’ were ‘Chains’ that had made him unmerciful and kept him from heaven. 77 The poet thus damns Dives for his unwillingness to open his ears to the words of the prophets and, in turn, to the pleas of the poor.
Hace 1 día · Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. The novel is a Bildungsroman and depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip.It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to ...
Hace 4 días · The first is that all we think about and study is money. The second is that economists are more selfish than the average person. Both stereotypes are wrong. My wife, who is not herself an economist but has been married to one for almost forty-one years, has a great answer to the first claim. When people find out that I’m an economist and then ...
Hace 5 días · Dr Kristian Niemietz is the IEA's Editorial Director, and Head of Political Economy. Kristian studied Economics at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and the Universidad de Salamanca, graduating in 2007 as Diplom-Volkswirt (≈MSc in Economics). During his studies, he interned at the Central Bank of Bolivia (2004), the National Statistics Office of Paraguay (2005), and at the IEA (2006).
