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Ricardo's Dream
How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray1. First Edition
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27,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Bristol University Press |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 26.11.2024 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781529225518 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 288 |
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Beschreibungen
<p>From the workings of financial markets to our response to the ecological crisis, economic theory shapes the world. But where do these ideas come from?</p>
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<p> Ricardo’s Dream tells the fascinating story of David Ricardo, Adam Smith’s only real rival as the ‘founder of economics’: The wealthiest stock trader of his day, Ricardo introduced the study of abstract models to economics. He also developed the theory of trade that underpinned globalization and hides, behind its mathematical façade, a history of power, empire and slavery.</p>
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<p> Brimming with fresh ideas and stories, Ricardo’s Dream shows how too many economists, from Ricardo’s day to our own, have turned away from observing the real world and led us astray.</p>
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<p> Ricardo’s Dream tells the fascinating story of David Ricardo, Adam Smith’s only real rival as the ‘founder of economics’: The wealthiest stock trader of his day, Ricardo introduced the study of abstract models to economics. He also developed the theory of trade that underpinned globalization and hides, behind its mathematical façade, a history of power, empire and slavery.</p>
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<p> Brimming with fresh ideas and stories, Ricardo’s Dream shows how too many economists, from Ricardo’s day to our own, have turned away from observing the real world and led us astray.</p>
<p>Introduction: "As Certain as the Principle of Gravitation"</p>
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<p> Part 1: Birth</p>
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<p> 1. The Other Founding Father of Economics</p>
<p> 2. "The Unshakeable Basis for International Trade"</p>
<p> 3. Unequal Treaty</p>
<p> 4. Black Gold</p>
<p> 5. Newton's Mint</p>
<p> 6. The Empire of Free Trade</p>
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<p> Part 2: Death</p>
<p> 7. "Dropped from Another Planet"</p>
<p> 8. "Purely Hypothetical Truths"</p>
<p> 9. The Fall</p>
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<p> Part 3: Rebirth</p>
<p> 10. The Return of Unreality</p>
<p> 11. Big Finance</p>
<p> 12. Trading Barbarians</p>
<p> 13. Life: An Externality</p>
<p> 14. New Hope</p>
<p> </p>
<p> Conclusion: Look at the World</p>
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<p> Part 1: Birth</p>
<p> </p>
<p> 1. The Other Founding Father of Economics</p>
<p> 2. "The Unshakeable Basis for International Trade"</p>
<p> 3. Unequal Treaty</p>
<p> 4. Black Gold</p>
<p> 5. Newton's Mint</p>
<p> 6. The Empire of Free Trade</p>
<p> </p>
<p> Part 2: Death</p>
<p> 7. "Dropped from Another Planet"</p>
<p> 8. "Purely Hypothetical Truths"</p>
<p> 9. The Fall</p>
<p> </p>
<p> Part 3: Rebirth</p>
<p> 10. The Return of Unreality</p>
<p> 11. Big Finance</p>
<p> 12. Trading Barbarians</p>
<p> 13. Life: An Externality</p>
<p> 14. New Hope</p>
<p> </p>
<p> Conclusion: Look at the World</p>
Nat Dyer is a writer and researcher specialising in global political economy. He is a Fellow of the Schumacher Institute and the Royal Society of Arts. He has worked for Global Witness and for Promoting Economic Pluralism and his stories have been reported on by the BBC, the New York Times and Bloomberg. Find out more at @natjdyer and www.natdyer.com.
<p>•Reveals the true, bloody history behind the intellectual backbone of globalisation. </p>
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<p> •Tells an engaging and rigorously researched story that takes the reader from naval and battlefield victories, from a Brazilian gold rush based on enslaved labour, to a famine inside the richest country in the world, and up to the present day. </p>
<p> </p>
<p> •Joins a recent tradition of books that interrogate the ideas of economics, but the first book to home in on its most celebrated and enduring idea: the law of comparative advantage</p>
<p> </p>
<p> •Tells an engaging and rigorously researched story that takes the reader from naval and battlefield victories, from a Brazilian gold rush based on enslaved labour, to a famine inside the richest country in the world, and up to the present day. </p>
<p> </p>
<p> •Joins a recent tradition of books that interrogate the ideas of economics, but the first book to home in on its most celebrated and enduring idea: the law of comparative advantage</p>
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