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Speaking of Economics – How to Get in the Conversation

Speaking of Economics
Arjo Klamer
Routledge, 2007
Level: advanced
Perspective: Other
Topic: Other
page count: 199 pages
ISBN: 9780415395106

Blurb

Making sense of economists and their world in a persuasive and entertaining style, Arjo Klamer, the author of a number of influential books including Conversation with Economists and The Consequences of Economic Rhetoric, shows that economics is as much about how people interact as it is about the models, the mathematics, the econometrics, the theories and the ideas that come from the enormous aggregate of economics literature. Knowing and understanding economics requires both bookwork and mingling with other economists.

Viewing the subject as a collection of conversations, Klamer examines fundamental disagreements over the nature and purpose of the discipline, addressing how it is that a discipline that so permeates daily life is at once and scientific, powerful and ignored, noble and disdained and in a reader-friendly style without eschewing academic methodology demonstrates economics to be a living, breathing discipline rooted in the real world.

Whether you are a student, academician, journalist, practising economist or interested outsider, Speaking of Economics will get you interested in a conversation about economics.

Book summary

In this book, Arjo Klamer, gives a wide range of tips and insights for prospective economists.

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