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    The undercover economist strikes back : how to run - or ruin - an economy / Tim Harford.

    By: Harford, Tim, 1973- [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2015Copyright date: ©2013Edition: First Riverhead trade paperback editionDescription: xxv, 244 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781594632914Subject(s): Economics | Macroeconomics | Economic history -- 1990- | Economic history | Economics | Macroeconomics | Since 1990DDC classification: 339.5 LOC classification: HB172.5 | .H358 2014
    Contents:
    The economy: a user's manual -- The babysitting recession -- Money, money, money -- Just enough inflation -- Stimulus -- The prison camp recession -- Output gaps -- The invention of unemployment -- Boss-onomics --The sirens of macroeconomics -- The cult of GNP -- Happynomics -- Can growth continue forever? -- Inequality -- The future of macroeconomics.
    Summary: "A lively and engaging exploration of macroeconomics that explains what's really happening to the world economy and what we can do about it - as consumers, voters, workers and human beings"-- {u01C2}c Provided by publisher.
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    "First edition: Little, Brown Book Group 2013. First American edition: Riverhead Books 2014"--Title page verso.

    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    The economy: a user's manual -- The babysitting recession -- Money, money, money -- Just enough inflation -- Stimulus -- The prison camp recession -- Output gaps -- The invention of unemployment -- Boss-onomics --The sirens of macroeconomics -- The cult of GNP -- Happynomics -- Can growth continue forever? -- Inequality -- The future of macroeconomics.

    "A lively and engaging exploration of macroeconomics that explains what's really happening to the world economy and what we can do about it - as consumers, voters, workers and human beings"-- {u01C2}c Provided by publisher.

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