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What Do Economists Contribute?

ISBN-13: 9780814747223
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
By Daniel B. Klein
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Local release date: 01/01/1999
Format: Hardback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 208 pages Weight: 295g
Categories: Economic theory & philosophy [KCA]

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Google Preview: Essays by nine leading 20th-century economists (Friedrich Hayek, Ronald Coase, Thomas Schelling, Gordon Tullock, Israel Kirzner, Frank Graham, William Hutt, Clarence Philbrook and D. McCloskey) are presented in this volume. They all address the question of how economists contribute to human betterment, and express their esteem for economic research which is firmly rooted in public issues and contributes to public discourse. Some suggest that the academic focus on technical refinement not only diverts economists from efforts at public edification, but might even mislead economists in their own understanding of economic affairs.; Daniel B. Klein is Associate Professor of Economics at Santa Clara University. He is co-author of Curb Rights: A Foundation for Free Enterprise in Urban Transit and editor of Reputation: Studies in the Voluntary Elicitation of Good Conduct and What Do Economists Contribute?, available from NYU Press.; "Do economists have much influence on government policy, particularly over, say, five or ten years? Probably not. Is that because they don't try hard enough or is it because politicians care more about the next election than about the opinion of economists? In this splendid collection of papers, some published as long ago as the 1930s, nine great economists consider these questions. The editor's illuminating introduction sorts out the area of agreement and disagreement between them." -Mark Blaug,University of Exeter; Google Preview content

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