The undercover economist strikes back : how to run - or ruin - an economy /
Tim Harford.
- First Riverhead trade paperback edition.
- xxv, 244 pages ; 24 cm
"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"-- c Provided by publisher.
9781594632914
Since 1990
Economics. Macroeconomics. Economic history--1990- Economic history. Economics. Macroeconomics.