What Do Economists Contribute?

1999
ISBN: 978-0-333-77760-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 157 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 230 g

The title of this book raises a provocative question that should make all economists think. What is our raison d'etre ? Only a few economists have specifically addressed the issue. Several of the more challenging efforts are included here. Do economists have much influence on government policy, particularly over, say, five or ten years? Is that because they don't try hard enough or is it because politicians care more about the next election than about the opinion of economists? In this splendid collection, some published as long ago as the 1930s, nine great economists consider these questions. The editor's illuminating introduction sorts out the area of agreement and disagreement between them.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Klein, Daniel B.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editor's Introduction Bibliography Biographies of Contributors On the Role of Values in the Work of Economists; F.D.Graham Economists and Public Policy; R.Coase On the Decline of Authority of Economists; W.H.Hutt 'Realism' in Policy Espousal; C.Philbrook How to Do Well While Doing Good!; G.Gordon The Common Weal and Economic Stories; D.N.McCloskey What Do Economists Know?; T.C.Schelling Economists and the Correction of Error; I.M.Kirzner On Being an Economist; F.A.Hayek

Über Autor(innen)

RONALD H. COASE Nobel Prize in Economic Science, 1991
FRANK D. GRAHAM (1890-1949) Professor of Economics at Princeton University until his death in 1949
FRIEDRICH A. HAYEK (1899-1992) Nobel Prize in Economic Science, 1974. Professor at LSE, 1931-49. Author of The Road to Serfdom
WILLIAM H. HUTT (b.1899) Professor of Economics at Capetown University and Texas, A & M. Author of Economists and the Public
ISRAEL M. KIRZNER (b.1930) Professor of Economics at New York University since 1957
DEIRDRE N. MCCLOSKEY (b.1942) Professor of Economics and of History at the University of Iowa
CLARENCE PHILBROOK (1909-78) was Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina (1947-1975)
THOMAS C. SCHELLING (b.1921) Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland and previously at Harvard
GORDON TULLOCK Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona; editor of Public Choice for 25 years