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HOW TO THINK LIKE AN ECONOMIST - ROBBIE MOCHRIE...

An entertaining collection of biographical portraits of history's most influential and
inspiring economists - from Aristotle to Keynes  and Karl Marx to Friedrich Hayek - and what
they can teach us about the world today.   We all live in the economy  whether we know it or
not. The current cost-of-living crisis is an economic problem. Brexit might be a political
project  but it has already changed how much money we have to spend and which products we can
buy. Climate change may seem to be an ecological  or a social  or a technological problem  but
it is also an economic problem  because its solution will transform the structure of the global
economy.  This book provides a readable and entertaining guide to the great thinkers who help
us understand how economics works. It looks at how Aristotle invented the household budget  why
Adam Smith wanted to abolish rent  and how modern Nobel prize winners shape the world around
us. From the Greeks and Romans to the thinkers behind Enron and the financial crash of 2008 
this is the ultimate guide to the greatest economists of the human age  and what their
extraordinary thinking can teach us about how to see the world.  Mochrie explores how the
largely Western  White and male dominated field of economics is beginning to diversify  and
shows how the great ideas of complex economics can be applied to our day-to-day existence.

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