A provocative and lively exploration of the increasingly important world of macroeconomics, by the author of the bestselling The Undercover Economist.
Look out for Harford's forthcoming book, Messy, a big idea book about the genuine benefits of being messy: at home, at work, in the classroom, and beyond.
Thanks to the worldwide financial upheaval, economics is no longer a topic...
A provocative and lively exploration of the increasingly important world of macroeconomics, by the author of the bestselling The Undercover Economist.
Look out for Harford's forthcoming book, Messy, a big idea book about the genuine benefits of being messy: at home, at work, in the classroom, and beyond.
Thanks to the worldwide financial upheaval, economics is no longer a topic we can ignore. From politicians to hedge-fund managers to middle-class IRA holders, everyone must pay attention to how and why the global economy works the way it does.
Enter Financial Times columnist and bestselling author Tim Harford. In this new book that demystifies macroeconomics, Harford strips away the spin, the hype, and the jargon to reveal the truth about how the world’s economy actually works. With the wit of a raconteur and the clear grasp of an expert, Harford explains what’s really happening beyond today’s headlines, why all of us should care, and what we can do about it to understand it better.
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Tim Harford is the author of the bestseller The Undercover Economist and The Logic of Life and a member of the editorial board of the Financial Times, where he also writes the “Dear Economist” column. He is a regular contributor to Slate, Forbes, and NPR’s Marketplace. He was the host of the BBC TV series Trust Me, I’m an Economist and now presents the BBC series More or Less. ...
Tim Harford is the author of the bestseller The Undercover Economist and The Logic of Life and a member of the editorial board of the Financial Times, where he also writes the “Dear Economist” column. He is a regular contributor to Slate, Forbes, and NPR’s Marketplace. He was the host of the BBC TV series Trust Me, I’m an Economist and now presents the BBC series More or Less. Harford has been an economist at the World Bank and an economics tutor at Oxford University. He lives in London with his wife and two daughters.
Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff presented a research paper called “Growth in a Time of Debt” in 2010, at a time when politicians everywhere were fiercely arguing about the wisdom of getting into further debt in the hopes of kick-starting the economy. From a bunch of statistical correlations between countries’ growth rates and their debt/GDP ratios—which are a simple way to measure how much money a country’s government has borrowed, relative to how big the economy is—Reinhart and Rogoff presented what quickly became a famous result: If a country’s debt/GDP ratio rises about 90 percent, economic growth tends to be substantially slower.
Politicians who favored spending cuts jumped on this result, as you might expect. Paul Ryan, later the vice-presidential running mate of Mitt Romney, mentione... (查看原文)
It’s easy to grasp why exponential economic growth is not the same as exponential energy growth. If I’m worried about money, I may turn off my heating and wear a coat and hat indoors; a bit of extra money will mean I take off the hat and coat and use more energy. But that doesn’t mean that if I win the lottery I will celebrate by boiling myself alive. (查看原文)
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0 有用 浅草 2015-07-05 20:26:18
就当复习宏观了
0 有用 yihan爱书橱 2022-05-20 22:52:14
说来惭愧，虽然耳濡目染了不少凯恩斯经济学与古典经济学，然而直到读了这本书才明白了这两大流派的本质区别。继续学习！
0 有用 lolita83 2017-08-07 20:56:20
前面三分之二还不错用很浅显易懂的文字解释了宏观经济学的好多基本概念，比如供给侧还是需求侧引起的萧条和解决办法。失业率问题。作为一本宏观经济学入门书籍还是不错的
0 有用 Inari 2016-10-04 02:53:16
简明易懂的宏观科普，让经济蓬勃发展真的是蛮不容易的。。。