This is not a paean to free-market economics, as some readers seem to think (did they miss the chapters on externality charges, one wonders?) but rather a clever primer on some of the "big topics" in economics today.
The author has a knack for making the normally in-one-ear-and-out-the-other terms of economics stick in your brain, as well as what they actually mean.
Should be required...
more This is not a paean to free-market economics, as some readers seem to think (did they miss the chapters on externality charges, one wonders?) but rather a clever primer on some of the "big topics" in economics today.
The author has a knack for making the normally in-one-ear-and-out-the-other terms of economics stick in your brain, as well as what they actually mean.
Should be required reading for journalists and commentators on both "sides" of the globalisation debate, as it exposes the weakest parts of all the usual arguments, which is probably why partisans on both sides don't like it. Everyone else will.
Yes, the views of the author are clearly on display, but then again this isn't a textbook.
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