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How to Think Like an Economist : The Great Economists Who Shaped the World and What We Can Learn From Them Today
An entertaining collection of biographical portraits of history's most influential and inspiring economists from Aristotle to Keynes, and Karl Marx to Friedrich Hayek and what they can teach us about the world today. We all live in the economy, whether we know it or not. The current cost-of-living crisis is an economic problem. Brexit might be a political project, but it has already changed how much money we have to spend and which products we can buy.
Climate change may seem to be an ecological, or a social, or a technological problem, but it is also an economic problem, because its solution will transform the structure of the global economy. This book provides a readable and entertaining guide to the great thinkers who help us understand how economics works. It looks at how Aristotle invented the household budget, why Adam Smith wanted to abolish rent, and how modern Nobel prize winners shape the world around us.
From the Greeks and Romans to the thinkers behind Enron and the financial crash of 2008, this is the ultimate guide to the greatest economists of the human age, and what their extraordinary thinking can teach us about how to see the world. Mochrie explores how the largely Western, White and male dominated field of economics is beginning to diversify, and shows how the great ideas of complex economics can be applied to our day-to-day existence.
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Making Sense of Chaos
We live in an age of increasing complexity, where accelerating technology and global interconnection hold more promise – and more peril – than any other time in human history. As well as financial crises, issues around climate change, automation, growing inequality and polarization are all rooted in the economy, yet standard economic predictions fail us.
Many books have been written about Doyne Farmer and his pioneering work in chaos and complexity theory. Making Sense of Chaos is the first in his own words, presenting a manifesto for doing economics better. In a tale of science and ideas, Farmer fuses his profound knowledge with stories from his life to explain how to harness a scientific revolution to address the economic conundrums facing society.
Using big data and ever more powerful computers, we can for the first time apply complex systems science to economic activity, building realistic models of the global economy. The resulting simulations and the emergent behaviour we observe form the cornerstone of complexity economics. This new science, Farmer shows, will allow us to test ideas and make significantly better economic predictions – and, ultimately, create a better world.
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The Road to Freedom
A major reappraisal, by the Nobel-prizewinning economist, of the relationship between capitalism and freedom
Despite its manifest failures, the narrative of neoliberalism retains its grip on the public mind and the policies of governments all over the world. By this narrative, less regulation and more ‘animal spirits’ capitalism produces not only greater prosperity, but more freedom for individuals in society - and is therefore morally better.
But, in The Road to Freedom Stiglitz asks, whose freedom are we – should we be – thinking about? What happens when one person’s freedom comes at the expense of another’s? Should the freedoms of corporations be allowed to impinge upon those of individuals in the ways they now do?
Taking on giants of neoliberalism such as Hayek and Friedman and examining how public opinion is formed, Stiglitz reclaims the language of freedom from the right to show that far from ‘free’ – unregulated – markets promoting growth and enterprise, they in fact reduce it, lessening economic opportunities for majorities and siphoning wealth from the many to the few – both individuals and countries. He shows how neoliberal economics and its implied moral system have impacted our legal and social freedoms in surprising ways, from property and intellectual rights, to education and social media.
Stiglitz’s eye, as always, is on how we might create the true human flourishing which should be the great aim of our economic and social system, and offers an alternative to that prevailing today. The Road to Freedom offers a powerful re-evaluation of democracy, economics and what constitutes a good society—and provides a roadmap of how we might achieve it.
Growth
A revelatory account of the past, present, and future of economic growth - and how we should rethink it
Over the past two centuries, economic growth has freed billions from poverty and made our lives far healthier and longer. As a result, the unfettered pursuit of growth defines economic life around the world. Yet this prosperity has come at an enormous price: deepening inequalities, destabilizing technologies, environmental destruction and climate change.
Resolving this growth dilemma, best-selling economist Daniel Susskind argues, is the urgent task of our age. For many, in our era of sluggish productivity, the worry is slowing growth—in the UK, Europe, China and elsewhere—and reversing this stagnation is the goal of every politician. Others understandably claim, given its social and environmental costs, that the only way forward is through 'degrowth', deliberating shrinking our economies.
At this time of uncertainty about growth and its value, Susskind has written an essential reckoning. In a sweeping analysis full of historical insight, he explores what really drives growth, offering original ideas for combatting our economic slowdown. He argues that we cannot abandon growth but shows instead how we can redirect it, making it better reflect what we truly value.
Lucid, thought-provoking and brilliantly researched, Growth: A Reckoning is a vital guide to one of our greatest challenges.
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The Longevity Imperative
A leading expert on longevity calls for a revolution in the way we think about health, ageing, and the future . . .
The last century saw a revolution in life expectancy.
Whether you are male or female, born in the global south or north, the chances are that you can expect to live much longer than previous generations. But instead of seeing this as a precious gift of extra life, we see it as a burden, with ageing populations dogged by infirmity, dependent on an ever-decreasing number of young people to support them.
Andrew Scott argues it doesn't have to be like that. Our longer lives can be a source of hope and fulfilment if we seize the opportunity to pursue the evergreen agenda, one in which we pursue a sustainable lifestyle both for ourselves as individuals - investing in our finances, health, skills and relationships to support a longer life - and for the planet.
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Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts and the Death of Freedom
Everything you know about capitalism is wrong.Free markets aren't really free. Record corporate profits don't trickle down to everyone else. And we aren't empowered to make our own choices - they're made for us every day. In Vulture Capitalism, acclaimed journalist Grace Blakeley takes on the world's most powerful corporations by showing how the causes of our modern crisis are the intended result of our capitalist system. It's not broken, it's working exactly as planned. From Amazon to Boeing, Henry Ford to Richard Nixon, Blakeley shows us exactly where late-stage capitalism has gone wrong.Searing, explosive and timely, Vulture Capitalism is the book you need to understand what is happening in the world around you - and what you can do to change it.
Full of explosive examples and eye-opening original research, young thinker Grace Blakeley gives us a fresh look at the problems of our late stage capitalism crisis - and gives us the keys to stop it.
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The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Wont Save the Planet
Why the market will never solve the Climate Crisis.
What if our understanding of capitalism and climate is back to front? What if the problem is not that transitioning to renewables is too expensive, but that saving the planet is not sufficiently profitable?
This is Brett Christophers' claim. The global economy is moving too slowly toward sustainability because the return on green investment is too low.
Today's consensus is that the key to curbing climate change is to produce green electricity and electrify everything possible. The main economic barrier in that project has seemingly been removed. But while prices of solar and wind power have tumbled, the golden era of renewables has yet to materialize.
The problem is that investment is driven by profit, not price, and operating solar and wind farms remains a marginal business, dependent everywhere on the state's financial support.
We cannot expect markets and the private sector to solve the climate crisis while the profits that are their lifeblood remain unappetizing. But there is an alternative to providing surrogate green profits through subsidies: to take energy out of the private sector's hands.
An essential intervention, The Price Is Wrong is as politically far-reaching as it is factually illuminating.
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Goodbye Globalization
GOLD MEDALLIST IN THE 2024 AXIOM BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS
A bold new account of the state of globalization today-and what its collapse might mean for the world economy
After the Cold War, globalization accelerated at breakneck speed. Manufacturing, transport, and consumption defied national borders, companies made more money, and consumers had access to an ever-increasing range of goods. But in recent years, a profound shift has begun to take place.
Business executives and politicians alike are realising that globalization is no longer working. Supply chains are imperilled, Russia has been expelled from the global economy after its invasion of Ukraine, and China is using these fissures to leverage a strategic advantage. Given these pressures, what will the future of our world economy look like?
In this groundbreaking account, Elisabeth Braw explores the collapse of globalization and the profound challenges it will bring to the West. Drawing on interviews with prominent executives and policymakers from around the world, Braw poses the difficult questions all businesses and economies will face-and traces the intricate story of globalization from the exuberant '90s to the embattled present.
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Živočišné pudy
Ekonomické dění neurčují jen racionální lidské motivy, měřitelné proměnné či matematicky vyjádřitelné vztahy, v ekonomice působí též mocné psychologické síly, které duchovní otec této teorie, John Maynard Keynes, nazval animal spirits - živočišné pudy. Tyto pudy srozumitelně objasňují, jak působí takové jevy jako hospodářské krize, nezaměstnanost, míra úspor, výkyvy cen akcií či nemovitostí a chudoba menšin. Oba autoři patří do první stovky nejvýznamnějších světových ekonomů současnosti, George Akerlof je nositelem Nobelovy ceny za ekonomii (2000, s J. Stiglitzem a M. Spencem), Robert Shiller je profesorem ekonomie na Yaleově univerzitě a autorem několika bestsellerů (např. Irrational Exuberance, česky Investiční horečka, 2010, a The Subprime Solution). Podle autorů jsou živočišné pudy jednou z hlavních příčin současné krize, k jejímuž řešení je nutná aktivnější úloha státu.
Kniha ekonomie
Co se děje při recesi? Jak fungují peníze? Proč platíme daně? Ekonomie ovlivňuje každou stránku našich životů, od způsobu, jak cestujeme do práce, až po rozhodování, za co utratíme své peníze – a velké ekonomické myšlenky nepřetržitě utvářejí náš svět.
Srozumitelné napsaná Kniha ekonomie, doplněná o krátká, výstižná objasnění ekonomických pojmů, diagramy, které krok za krokem zpřehledňují složité teorie, klasické výroky, jež činí ekonomii snáze zapamatovatelnou, a vtipné ilustrace, které si pohrávají s našimi představami o velkých myšlenkách.
How Economics Can Save the World
Economics has the power to make the world a better, happier and safer place: this book shows you how
Our world is in a mess. The challenges of climate change, inequality, hunger and a global pandemic mean our way of life seems more imperilled and society more divided than ever; but economics can help!
From parenting to organ donation, housing to anti-social behaviour, economics provides the tools we need to fix the biggest issues of today. Far from being a means to predict the stock market, enrich the elite or track money around the globe, economics provides a lens through which we can better understand how things work, design clever solutions and create the conditions in which we can all flourish.
With a healthy dose of optimism, and packed with stories of economics in everyday situations, Erik Angner demonstrates the methods he and his fellow economists use to help improve the lives of people and the society in which they live. He shows us that economics can be a powerful force for good, awakening the possibility of a happier, more just and more sustainable world.
Edible Economics
Economic thinking - about climate change, immigration, austerity, automation and much more - in its most digestible form
For decades, a single free market philosophy has dominated global economics. But this is bland and unhealthy - like British food in the 1980s, when bestselling author and Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang first arrived in the UK from South Korea. Just as eating a wide range of cuisines contributes to a balanced diet, so too is it essential we listen to a variety of economic perspectives.
In Edible Economics, Chang makes challenging economic ideas more palatable by plating them alongside anecdotes about food from around the world. Beginning each chapter with a menu, Chang uses the stories behind key ingredients - where they come from, how they are cooked and consumed, what they mean to different cultures - to explore economic theory. For Chang, strawberries are delicious with cream, but they also prophesise a jobless future; chocolate is a wonderful pudding, but more exciting are the insights it offers into post-industrial knowledge economies. Explaining everything from the hidden cost of care work to the misleading language of the free market as he cooks dishes like anchovy and egg toast, Gambas al Ajillo and Korean dotori mook, Ha-Joon Chang serves up an easy-to-digest feast of bold ideas.
Myth-busting, witty and thought-provoking, Edible Economics shows that getting to grips with the economy is like learning a recipe: if we understand it, we can change it - and, with it, the world.
Az emberiség utazása
Lebilincselő történet az emberi civilizáció fejlődéséről az őskortól napjainkig
Az ember az egyetlen faj az élővilágban, amelynek nem kell nap mint nap szó szerint megküzdenie az élelemforrásokért, és amely olyan életszínvonalat ért el, amilyet rajta kívül semelyik másik faj sem tudott megvalósítani a Földön. Ez a kiemelkedő életszínvonal azonban nem egyenlő mértékben jellemzi a fajba tartozó egyedeket, azaz az embereket. Sőt: az egyéneket, de az egyes társadalmi csoportokat és országokat is elképesztően nagy gazdasági különbségek jellemzik. Miért?
Az elismert közgazdász és gondolkodó, Oded Galor az emberiség hajnalától napjainkig tartó, érdekfeszítő utazásra hívja az olvasót, amely során választ kínál a történelem két nagy rejtélyére:
- Miért nem tudott az emberiség évezredeken keresztül kitörni a szegénységből?
- Mi magyarázza, hogy egyes országok gazdagabbak más országoknál?
Az emberiség utazása tanulságos, olykor megdöbbentő módon világítja meg a történelmet alakító nagy összefüggéseket, miközben sok egyéb mellett olyan izgalmas kérdésekre is magyarázattal szolgál, mint hogy milyen szerepet játszott az ipari forradalom a gyerekvállalási kedv változásában, hogy mi köze az ekének a nemek közti egyenlőséghez, és hogy összeegyeztethető-e a folyamatos gazdasági fejlődés a környezetvédelemmel.
Aki szerette Yuval Noah Harari Sapiens című könyvét, Oded Galor érdekfeszítő okfejtését is értékeli majd.
Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity
The Covid-19 outbreak has turned bedrooms into offices, pitted young against old and widened the gaps between rich and poor, red and blue, the mask-wearers and the mask-haters. Some businesses, like Amazon and video conference software maker Zoom, woke up to find themselves crushed under an avalanche of consumer demand. Others, like the restaurant, travel, hospitality and live entertainment industries, scrambled to not become instantly obsolete. But the pandemic has not been a change agent so much as an accelerant of trends that were already well underway.
In Post Corona, Galloway outlines the contours of both crisis and opportunity that lie ahead. While the powerful tech monopolies will thrive in the disruption other businesses, like higher education, will struggle to maintain a value proposition that no longer makes sense when we can't stand shoulder to shoulder.
Combining his signature humour and brash style with razor-sharp business insights, Galloway offers both warning and hope in equal measure.
Bestselling author of The Four and NYU Business School professor delivers an insightful, urgent analysis of who stands to win and who's at risk to lose in a post-pandemic world.
'Thought-provoking... As good an analysis as you could wish to read.' FINANCIAL TIMES
The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
The five laws that confirm our worst fears: stupid people can and do rule the world.
Since time immemorial, a powerful dark force has hindered the growth of human welfare and happiness. It is more powerful than the Mafia or the military. It has global catastrophic effects and can be found anywhere from the world's most powerful boardrooms to your local pub. This is the immensely powerful force of human stupidity.
Seeing the shambolic state of human affairs, and sensing the dark force at work behind it, Carlo M. Cipolla, the late, noted professor of economic history at the University of California, Berkeley, created a vitally important economic model that would allow us to detect, know and neutralise this threat: The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity.
If you've ever found yourself despairing at the ubiquity of stupidity among even the most 'intellectual' of people, then this hilarious, timely and slightly alarming little book is for you. Arm yourself in the face of baffling political realities, unreasonable colleagues or the unbridled misery of dinner with the in-laws with the first and only economic model for stupidity.
Fakty a mýty o spoločnosti 5.0
Rýchly technologický rozvoj, pretlak informácií rôzneho druhu, masové využívanie sociálnych sietí zásadne menia život jednotlivca, ako aj ľudskej spoločnosti. Ovplyvnia kvalitu života človeka a zmeny spoločnosti len v pozitívnom svetle alebo so sebou prinesú aj problémy, ktorým bude treba čeliť?
Publikácia „Fakty a mýty o spoločnosti 5.0“ je kritickým zamyslením sa nad súčasným stavom a možným vývojom spoločnosti v dôsledku rozvoja informačných technológií. Autori v nej podrobili analýze aktuálne problémy spoločnosti dneška s výhľadom na jej ďalší rozvoj. V jednotlivých kapitolách sprevádzajú čitateľa budúcnosťou, ktorá prináša zaujímavý pohľad na kľúčové fenomény ako umelá inteligencia, priemysel 4.0, spoločnosť 5.0. Načrtávajú však aj problémové oblasti budúcnosti, ktorým sa spoločnosť, ale ani planéta ako taká nevyhne. Práve prepojenie s pohľadom na budúcnosť zdôrazňuje podtitul monografie „Zamyslenie sa nad budúcnosťou“.
Monografia je voľným pokračovaním publikácie „Hľadanie novej reality“ a takisto vyzýva čitateľa k zmene náhľadu na realitu súčasnosti, ako aj k zmene uvažovania nad budúcnosťou.
Ekonómia praktikum 2. vydanie
Druhé, prepracované a rozšírené vydanie
Praktiká Ekonomická teória 1 a Ekonomická teória 2 sú koncipované tak, aby študenti, ktorí s ním budú pracovať, mali možnosť postupne sa oboznamovať s problematikou, vnímať súvislosti a dokázať aj interpretovať nové poznatky, formulovať vlastné zadania a vyvodiť z nich závery. Praktikumk nie je striktne viazané na učebnicu J. Lisý a kolektív: Ekonómia, aj keď bez zvládnutia problematiky, ktorá je v nej spracovaná, nie je reálne zvládnutie úloh, ktoré sú obsiahnuté v praktiku. Zároveň treba zdôrazniť fakt, že uvedená učebnica je síce východiskovým, ale nie jediným zdrojom. Ďalšie zdroje sú uvedené priamo pri zadaní úloh, resp. v osobitnej časti, ktorá zahŕňa odporúčanú literatúru.
Praktikum vytvára priestor na pravidelnú, systematickú prípravu na seminár, pretože umožňuje riešiť úlohy a mať ich k dispozícii počas celého semestra; na prácu s literatúrou; na samostatnú aktivitu študentov pri riešení úloh, ktoré si musia sformulovať; na vlastnú interpretáciu získaných poznatkov; na diskusie alebo aj polemiku; na pochopenie zložitých otázok v širšom kontexte a vo vzájomných súvislostiach; na komparáciu v čase, medzi krajinami, resp. regiónmi.
77 jednoduchých způsobů jak zvýšit produktivitu a zisk
Autoři knihy Jeremy Eden a Terri Long pracovali s řadou firem patřících do seznamu Fortune 1000 a podnikajících v nejrůznějších oborech. Pomohli jim vyřešit doslova tisíce problémů, a to v rozmezí několika měsíců. Analytikům z Wall Street tyto firmy avizovaly, že jim nová řešení přinesou desítky či stovky milionů dolarů ve zvýšených tržbách. Jejich výsledky byly nakonec ještě lepší než ohlašované prognózy. Jde o jev přinejmenším neobvyklý. Většina firem obvykle vykazuje mnohem nižší míru zlepšování. Poté, co autoři sledovali, jak tisícovky manažerů přicházejí s více než statisíci dobrých řešení, vyvracejí jeden z mýtů ohledně inovací: Inovace nevyžadují mimořádnou odvahu, ani mimořádnou kreativitu. Eden a Long popisují řadu taktik, které vám a vašim týmům pomohou najít nové náměty na zlepšení výkonů vaší firmy a posílí vaše schopnosti řešit problémy. Klíčem k úspěchu je vždy schopnost podívat se na staré věci novýma očima. Představte si třeba call centrum, jehož zaměstnanci investovali spoustu času, peněz a energie do zlepšování způsobu vyřizování stížností zákazníků. Stali se v této oblasti takovými mistry, že zákazníci, kteří se na ně obrátí, zůstávají firmě loajální. To zní dobře, nemyslíte? Jenže tohle není ten pravý problém. Správným problémem k řešení by mělo být předcházení problémům, které vedou k telefonátům. Zákaznický problém, jemuž se podaří předejít, je mnohem lepší než zákaznický problém, který se řeší, i když se vyřeší dobře…
Basic Economics, 5th edition
In this fifth edition of Basic Economics , Thomas Sowell revises and updates his popular book on common sense economics, bringing the world into clearer focus through a basic understanding of the fundamental economic principles and how they explain our lives. Drawing on lively examples from around the world and from centuries of history, Sowell explains basic economic principles for the general public in plain English. Basic Economics , which has now been translated into six languages and has additional material online, remains true to its core principle: that the fundamental facts and principles of economics do not require jargon, graphs, or equations, and can be learned in a relaxed and even enjoyable way.
Ekonómia a ekonomika, je kategória literatúry, ktorá sa zaoberá štúdiom a analýzou produkcie, distribúcie a spotreby statkov a služieb. Táto disciplína sa zaoberá spôsobom, akým ľudia, spoločnosti a národy využívajú zdroje na uspokojovanie svojich materiálnych potrieb.
V rámci literatúry sa ekonómia zaoberá širokým spektrom tém a konceptov, ktoré sú relevantné pre ekonomický systém a jeho fungovanie. Medzi tieto témy patria napríklad princípy mikroekonómie, makroekonómie, finančnej analýzy, medzinárodného obchodu, rozvojových štúdií, hospodárskej politiky a mnoho ďalších.
Literatúra z oblasti ekonómie sa skladá z akademických prác, vedeckých článkov, štúdií, kníh, pracovných dokumentov a rôznych publikácií, ktoré sa zaoberajú konkrétnymi ekonomickými témami. Tieto materiály majú za cieľ poskytnúť čitateľom teoretické a analytické nástroje na porozumenie a hodnotenie ekonomických procesov, politík a rozhodnutí.
V ekonomickej literatúre sa často používajú matematické modely, štatistické metódy a ekonometrické analýzy na kvantifikáciu ekonomických javov a predikciu ich budúceho vývoja. Okrem toho sa v ekonomickej literatúre často diskutuje aj o etických, sociálnych a environmentálnych aspektoch ekonomických rozhodnutí a ich dopade na spoločnosť.
Cieľom literatúry z oblasti ekonómie je poskytnúť čitateľom súbor poznatkov, ktoré im umožnia lepšie porozumieť komplexnej povahe ekonomických systémov a pomôcť pri tvorbe informovaných rozhodnutí týkajúcich sa hospodárstva, obchodu a financií.
