Download Ebook The Assumptions Economists Make, by Jonathan Schlefer
This concept is since we offer the soft file of the book. When other individuals bring the difficult publication almost everywhere, you could only hold your device. Conserving the soft file of The Assumptions Economists Make, By Jonathan Schlefer in your gizmo will reduce you in reading. When you are being at home, you can also open up in the computer system. So, conserving the book soft file in some gadgets are available. It will simplify of you to discover exactly how the task is mosting likely to be extremely simple because of the advanced technology.
The Assumptions Economists Make, by Jonathan Schlefer
Download Ebook The Assumptions Economists Make, by Jonathan Schlefer
Exceptional The Assumptions Economists Make, By Jonathan Schlefer book is always being the most effective good friend for investing little time in your office, night time, bus, and also anywhere. It will be a great way to just look, open, and also check out the book The Assumptions Economists Make, By Jonathan Schlefer while because time. As understood, encounter and skill do not consistently had the much cash to acquire them. Reading this book with the title The Assumptions Economists Make, By Jonathan Schlefer will certainly let you understand a lot more things.
If a publication from preferred author is presented, at some time lots of followers of them will directly buy the book. Also any type of book types, but are they truly checking out guide? That recognizes? For this reason, we will reveal you a publication by acquainted writer entitled The Assumptions Economists Make, By Jonathan Schlefer This book will certainly provide you some advantages if you actually reviewed it. The first is you can obtain the new words as exactly what we have unknowned concerning it previously. We could additionally improve the foreign language from reading this publication. There are any type of.
Reviewing the book The Assumptions Economists Make, By Jonathan Schlefer by on the internet can be likewise done easily every where you are. It appears that hesitating the bus on the shelter, waiting the listing for queue, or other locations possible. This The Assumptions Economists Make, By Jonathan Schlefer could accompany you in that time. It will certainly not make you really feel weary. Besides, in this manner will likewise improve your life high quality.
Taking this book is likewise simple. Visit the link download that we have actually given. You can feel so pleased when being the member of this online library. You could additionally discover the other book collections from around the globe. Once more, we below give you not only in this type of The Assumptions Economists Make, By Jonathan Schlefer We as supply thousands of guides collections from old to the new updated book all over the world. So, you could not hesitate to be left behind by recognizing this book. Well, not only know about the book, yet understand what the book offers.
Review
The Assumptions Economists Make is a marvelous piece of political economy. Jonathan Schlefer ably contrasts the two main approaches to macroeconomics--neoclassical and classical/Keynesian--and on social, historical, and political grounds strongly endorses the latter. (Lance Taylor, author of Maynard's Revenge: The Collapse of Free Market Macroeconomics)A marvel of clarity and elegance, The Assumptions Economists Make is the best book I've read about the ideas and practices of economists. With great respect, curiosity, insight, and wit, Jonathan Schlefer has given readers a sense of how the models and metaphors of economics inform our most important public policy debates. He manages to connect the theories that economists produce--and the assumptions that go along with the theories--to economists' varied, influential roles in public life as policy makers and public intellectuals. (Rawi Abdelal, Harvard Business School)Not a history of economic thinkers, this is an examination of their prevailing assumptions, from Adam Smith to the present. Schlefer asserts that macroeconomic models failed to guide government policy before 2008 because economists got their neoclassical theory wrong, and he blames the economic troubles of 2008 and beyond on the instability of private financial markets. He disputes factors such as supply and demand, technology, and unionization as causes of the current recession, noting that many believed the "supply of better-educated workers increasing relative to lower-skilled workers would cause their pay premium to fall" when just the opposite happened. (Joanna B. Conrad Library Journal 2012-02-15)A lucid, plain-spoken account of the major economic models, which [Schlefer] introduces in chronological order, creating a kind of intellectual history of macroeconomics. He explains what the models assume, what they actually demonstrate--and where they fall short. (Binyamin Applebaum New York Times blog 2012-04-16)Fascinating...[Schlefer's] book is a tough critique of economics, but a deeply informed and sympathetic one. (Justin Fox Harvard Business Review blog)This book is an impressive and informative analysis of the economics literature--and it presents some useful insights about how a more eclectic, catholic approach might allow economics to progress more convincingly into the future. (Michelle Baddeley Times Higher Education 2012-04-19)The Assumptions Economists Make is a valuable book for readers who like to argue, reflect, and advance knowledge. (A. R. Sanderson Choice 2012-09-01)The Assumptions Economists make [is] a knowledgeable...broadside against neoclassical economics...Schlefer's gripes concern model-building run amok...His criticisms of these models are original and sophisticated. (Christopher Caldwell Literary Review 2012-12-01)
Read more
About the Author
Jonathan Schlefer holds a Ph.D. in political science from MIT and is the author of Palace Politics: How the Ruling Party Brought Crisis to Mexico, as well as articles for The Atlantic and other publications. He is currently a research associate at Harvard Business School.
Read more
Product details
Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Belknap Press; First Edition (US) First Printing edition (March 20, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780674052260
ISBN-13: 978-0674052260
ASIN: 0674052269
Product Dimensions:
5.8 x 1.3 x 8.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.0 out of 5 stars
14 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#364,632 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
ï®As a political scientist Johnathan Schlefer was appalled by the gross failures and incoherence of economics in the public arena, so he decided to try to figure out what was going on. This book is the result - a good introduction for outsiders (also mis-educated insiders) to the dysfunctional state of modern economics. Especially why it is more ideology than science and how it got there.ï®Yet the reader longs for a new paradigm for understanding and doing economics, not just a critique of bad models. Schlefer does marshall some elements of a new paradigm - rejecting ludicrous assumptions and concepts and even citing recent nonlinear and agent based modeling. Unfortunately he leaves us without a new vision, which I suggest should take its inspiration more from current climate science than from 19th century physics.ï®Climate science takes complexity seriously and relegates simplistic models to subordinate roles, eagerly taking knowledge from every relevant field and incorporating it into vast scenarios as parameters and submodels to simulate the chaotic processes that characterize climate change. Seems a good match for global economics. Yet it seems that few economists have the right training or inclination, and powerful forces care more about ideological backing for their political agendas than about what real world economics might reveal.ï®Schlefer has consulted a number of economists, even read their books and studied their mathematical models, so he gets off to a good start by debunking Adam Smith's "invisible hand" based on the Arrow-Debreu result that general equilibrium models are inherently unstable. That is prices, supply, demand, and the like don't naturally converge to stable values in free and competitive markets, as most economics textbooks still preach. The basic flaw is the opportunity for speculation, booms, busts, and cycles in all such markets, which can only be damped out by strong regulatory forces.ï®Schlefer then goes on to show how the neoclassical theory developed by Jevons, Marshall, and others arose as a pseudo-scientific, pro-capitalist response to Ricardian and Marxian socialists. Not that Marx's labor theory of value was any better than the new micro-economics. In the modern era Milton Friedman was the high priest of the pro-capitalist ideology, even going so far as to explicitly reject the scientific method in favor of what philosophers call "instrumentalism"(it doesn't matter if your assumptions seem to be wrong if your conclusions seem to be right). Friedman is easily debunked by Schlefer, especially after acolytes of market of fundamentalism like Alan Greenspan lost so much face when they were caught by surprise by the financial crash of 2008.ï®Schlefer also tears apart the "production function" of neoclassical economics, with its ill-defined "Solow residual" and false predictions about wages and prices. Yet he is apparently not aware that the production function does much better at predicting growth when energy is included among the input variables, not just capital and labor. In as similar vein Schlefer takes on the supposed "substitutability" among labor, capital, and other factors of production, citing empirical studies to the contrary.ï®Even easier targets for Schlefer are such concepts as "representative agents", "rational expectation", and "aggregate supply and demand curves", perfect examples of the false assumptions that Friedman was so fond of because they seemed to rescue textbook economics. This paradigm sees all failures of neoclassical theory as due to "market imperfections" that can be explained after the fact by tweaking the basic models in various ad hoc ways that Schlefer likens to Ptolemy adding epicycles to explain the paths of the planets.ï®For an insider's "Debunking Economics", read Steve Keen, but Schlefer is more accessible and has done a yeoman's job for an outsider. But I'm still waiting for development of the new paradigm.
Thisbook must be read by all serious-minded economists, especially those who wish to understand the weak foundwations on which orthodox liberal economics is based. It shows in great detail how the metaphor of the Invisible Hand has been misused to support free-market policies leading real-life economies toward an optimal state of affairs.The book shows that far from being a valid policy prescription the Inivisible Hand does not even theoretically lead a typical Arrow-Debreu type economy to an optimal dispensation of the economy. It is just a metaphor and that is it.The great merit of the book is that it is perfectly at ease with the technical aspects of economics as well as with its practical applicability. It is simply an entertaining book.
Any government policymaker or student of economics would benefit from reading this book.Jonathan Schlefer takes apart economic models, particularly the neo-classical models that the Federal Reserve and others rely on to run the big western economies, and shows the fallacy of the assumptions and the reasoning behind them. Reading between the lines a bit, the intellectual dishonesty (my words, not Schlefer's) of some of the leading lights in economics (say Milton Friedman) is a bit staggering. They get away with it, because there are few outsiders with the math skills and the energy to do a proper job of picking them apart. This book is well written and does not involve math, thankfully, but still don't expect an easy read because the topic itself is so complex. Well worth the time.
Excellent exposition of what is rarely stated by economists - that they reason from assumptions and that the assumptions make a difference. More than passing familiarity with economics will ease digestion of the book but even a general reader should be able to follow the argument.
It was educational background material and history. I'd recommend it for anyone interested in economics even from the most casual viewpoint.
This is a wonderfully informative and elegantly written book. The author travels through the main currents of macroeconomics, starting with Adam Smith and Ricardo, and continuing to Marx, Keynes, the neoclassical, the structuralists... Although the author clearly endorses a more Keynesian/Structuralist approach (as opposed to a neoclassical/neoliberal one) he is very careful at avoiding partisanship. The main assumptions of the models are carefully explained and discussed in a non mathematical way as free from technical jargon as possible. Although not a book about the current crisis, it does not avoid the issue completely, discussing, when appropriate, several of its causes in the theory and practice of current mainstream economical thought. After reaching the final page, every non economist (and, I venture, a lot of economists too) have gained a far deeper understanding of the assumptions underlying the public discourse of economists and policy makers, assumptions that often do not seem to be taken by them as such, but as God given truths immune to any rational discussion. A very good book, deserving repeated visits.
Good economic book from non-economist
The Assumptions Economists Make, by Jonathan Schlefer PDF
The Assumptions Economists Make, by Jonathan Schlefer EPub
The Assumptions Economists Make, by Jonathan Schlefer Doc
The Assumptions Economists Make, by Jonathan Schlefer iBooks
The Assumptions Economists Make, by Jonathan Schlefer rtf
The Assumptions Economists Make, by Jonathan Schlefer Mobipocket
The Assumptions Economists Make, by Jonathan Schlefer Kindle
Posting Komentar