Todd G. Buchholz
Auteur de New Ideas from Dead Economists: An Introduction to Modern Economic Thought
A propos de l'auteur
Todd G. Buchholz is a former White House director of economic policy, award-winning teacher at Harvard, and managing director of the Tiger hedge fund. Currently founder and managing director of the Two Oceans Fund, he is coproducer of the Tony Award-winning Jersey Boys, and has written for the New afficher plus York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Reader's Digest. He is the author of New Ideas from Dead Economists, From Here to Economy, Market Shock, Bringing the Jobs Home, and the novel The Castro Gene, and he is a frequent in-demand speaker and television guest host. He lives with his wife and daughters in Solana Beach, California. afficher moins
Œuvres de Todd G. Buchholz
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1961
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Études
- University of Cambridge
Harvard University
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Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 9
- Membres
- 846
- Popularité
- #30,227
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 7
- ISBN
- 39
- Langues
- 4
Buchholz's history of economic thought is very readable with his witty humor. It definitely helps to have at least had some principles classes to completely understand the thoughts he explains, but he uses some simple explanations that are easy to follow. The history is great.
I now understand the syntheses of the economic schools more completely. My favorite line in the book is that "it is no longer possible to separate (modern, mainstream) economists into Keynesian and Monetarist camps." Both sides have learned from the other.
Buchholz pretty obviously has Keynesian readings (at least it was obvious to me) as he knocks a little too hard on the Monetarists and the Rational Expectations schools. But he's mostly fair (if not too simplistic) in his arguments.
This edition doesn't cover Behaviorialists or Austrians (although he mentions Hayek a few times). I assume the 2007 edition would include them and fix the typos I found.
In all, I give it 4 stars out of 5.… (plus d'informations)