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The soulful science : what economists really do and why it matters / Diane Coyle.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: vii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0691125139
  • 9780691125138
Other title:
  • What economists really do and why it matters
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330
LOC classification:
  • HB74.P8 C58 2007
Contents:
Prologue to Part 1. -- Part 1. The mysteries of wealth and poverty -- Chapter One : The history detectives -- Chapter Two : What makes economies grow? -- Chapter Three : How to make poverty history -- Prologue to Part 2. -- Part 2. Are individuals free to choose? -- Chapter Four : What's it all about? -- Chapter Five : Economics for humans -- Chapter 6 : Information and markets -- Prologue to part 3 -- Part Three. Nature, markets and society. -- Chapter Seven : Murderous apes and entrepreneurs -- Chapter Eight : Economy versus society -- Chapter Nine : Why economics has soul.
Review: "To many, Thomas Carlyle's put-down of economics as "the dismal science" is as fitting now as it was 150 years ago, but Diane Coyle argues that economics today is more soulful than dismal, a more practical and human science than ever before. In contrast to Freakonomics, which applied economics to unlikely or even eccentric subjects such as baby names and drug gangs, The Soulful Science describes the remarkable creative renaissance in how economics is addressing the most fundamental questions - and how it is starting to help solve problems such as poverty and global warming. A lively and entertaining tour of the most exciting new economic thinking about big-picture problems, The Soulful Science uncovers the hidden humanization of economics over the past two decades."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-271) and index.

Prologue to Part 1. -- Part 1. The mysteries of wealth and poverty -- Chapter One : The history detectives -- Chapter Two : What makes economies grow? -- Chapter Three : How to make poverty history -- Prologue to Part 2. -- Part 2. Are individuals free to choose? -- Chapter Four : What's it all about? -- Chapter Five : Economics for humans -- Chapter 6 : Information and markets -- Prologue to part 3 -- Part Three. Nature, markets and society. -- Chapter Seven : Murderous apes and entrepreneurs -- Chapter Eight : Economy versus society -- Chapter Nine : Why economics has soul.

"To many, Thomas Carlyle's put-down of economics as "the dismal science" is as fitting now as it was 150 years ago, but Diane Coyle argues that economics today is more soulful than dismal, a more practical and human science than ever before. In contrast to Freakonomics, which applied economics to unlikely or even eccentric subjects such as baby names and drug gangs, The Soulful Science describes the remarkable creative renaissance in how economics is addressing the most fundamental questions - and how it is starting to help solve problems such as poverty and global warming. A lively and entertaining tour of the most exciting new economic thinking about big-picture problems, The Soulful Science uncovers the hidden humanization of economics over the past two decades."--BOOK JACKET.

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