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Economics: A Very Short Introduction [#156]
Economics: A Very Short Introduction [#156]

Economics: A Very Short Introduction [#156]

Author: 
Partha Dasgupta
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  • Compares the lives of two children in the Developed and Developing Worlds, and uses this as a key to uncover the processes that shape our lives and our futures.
  • Shows how economics uncovers and explains these processes, and how it can form solutions and policies.
  • Up-to-date and progressive, this short book is written by an internationally recognized authority in the field.
  • Introduces key economic factors and concepts such as individual choices, national policies, efficiency, equity, development, sustainability, dynamic equilibrium, property rights, markets, and public goods.
  • Ties in politics, anthropology, ecology, geography, sociology, and development studies.

  
Economics has the capacity to offer us deep insights into some of the most formidable problems of life, and offer solutions to them too. Combining a global approach with examples from everyday life, Partha Dasgupta describes the lives of two children who live very different lives in different parts of the world: in the Mid-West USA and in Ethiopia. He compares the obstacles facing them, and the processes that shape their lives, their families, and their futures. He shows how economics uncovers these processes, finds explanations for them, and how it forms policies and solutions. 
 
Along the way, Dasgupta provides an intelligent and accessible introduction to key economic factors and concepts such as individual choices, national policies, efficiency, equity, development, sustainability, dynamic equilibrium, property rights, markets, and public goods.

Index: 

Preface
Prologue

1: Macroeconomic History
2: Trust
3: Communities
4: Markets
5: Science and Technology as Institutions
6: Households and Firms
7: Sustainable Economic Development
8: Social Well-Being and Democratic Government
Epilogue
Further Reading

About the author: 

Partha Dasgupta is Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge and Fellow of St John's College. His book, An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution (OUP, 1993) was praised as 'a tour de force... a model of good economics' (Joseph Stiglitz) and 'philosophically sophisticated, empirically well-informed, ambitious and lively' (James Griffin).

"An excellent introduction... presents mathematical and statistical findings in straightforward prose." - Financial Times
  

"I wish more people would read Dasgupta's book, and I wish more economists would write variations on its theme. It is a model specimen." - www.economicprincipals.com
  

"The text is direct, rigorous and thought-provoking. It provides an intelligent, rigorous and readable introduction to economics." - London Book Review.com

Product details

ISBN : 9780192853455

Author: 
Partha Dasgupta
Pages
192 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
111 x 174 mm
Pub date
Feb 2007
Series
Very Short Introductions
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Economics: A Very Short Introduction [#156]

Economics: A Very Short Introduction [#156]

Economics: A Very Short Introduction [#156]