Fifty Economic Fallacies Exposed

出版者:Institute of Economic Affairs

作者:Geoffrey E. Wood

页数:187

出版时间:December 2002

价格:$32.50

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780255365185

图书标签:经济libertarianismGeoffreyWood

Since 1988, Professor Geoffrey Wood of the Sir John Cass Business School, City of London, has written a regular column in the IEA's journal Economic Affairs, in which he exposes popular economic fallacies. This book collects fifty of these columns and exposes numerous common fallacies - for example, about the supposed dangers of free trade, the abilities of governments to control the economy, the effects of government regulation, and establishing the "correct" rate at which to join the Euro. These lucid and stimulating columns are invaluable to students struggling to master some of the complexities of economic theory and its applications, who often find the most effective way to learn economic analysis is to see such fallacies exposed. It is a text particularly suitable for first-year economics students, complementing existing textbooks as it does, and clarifying basic concepts in economics while demonstrating the practical uses of economic theory.