{"product_id":"the-economic-mind-a-complete-plain-english-guide-to-the-ideas-debates-and-thinkers-that-shape-the-world-9798197628336","title":"The Economic Mind: A Complete, Plain-English Guide to the Ideas, Debates, and Thinkers That Shape the World","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jordan Cole\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Economics - Macroeconomics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEvery conversation about the economy (inflation, deficits, tariffs, inequality, climate policy, AI and jobs) rests on assumptions that come from a particular school of economic thought. Most speakers do not know which school. Most listeners do not either. That is the reason economics feels harder than it should.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Economic Mind\u003c\/i\u003e is the book that opens up the arguments. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn thirty-five short, plain-English chapters, Jordan Cole walks through the great economic thinkers from Adam Smith in 1776 to Kate Raworth in 2017, and the contemporary debates their ideas continue to shape. Each chapter presents one thinker (or one school) on its own terms, identifies the strongest objections, and shows how the framework applies to the policy questions of today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eYou will meet: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAdam Smith\u003c\/b\u003e - the moral philosopher behind the invisible hand\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRicardo, Malthus, and Mill\u003c\/b\u003e - the classical economists who built the discipline\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eKarl Marx\u003c\/b\u003e - the critic working from inside the classical framework\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJevons, Menger, and Walras\u003c\/b\u003e - the marginalist revolution that replaced labor value with marginal utility\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJohn Maynard Keynes\u003c\/b\u003e - the response to the Great Depression that still shapes macroeconomic policy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFriedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman\u003c\/b\u003e - the counter-revolution that reshaped central banking\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRonald Coase, Elinor Ostrom, and the institutionalists\u003c\/b\u003e - markets, firms, commons, and rules\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eGeorge Akerlof, Michael Spence, and Joseph Stiglitz\u003c\/b\u003e - what asymmetric information does to markets\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAmartya Sen\u003c\/b\u003e - development as freedom, and the capability framework\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDaniel Kahneman and Richard Thaler\u003c\/b\u003e - what behavioral economics changed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThomas Piketty, Daron Acemoglu, Mariana Mazzucato, and Kate Raworth\u003c\/b\u003e - the modern frontier\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach chapter ends with a four-line \"Take With You\" memory card: the model, the thinker, the opposing view, and the modern application. Read the whole book straight through, or use it as a reference when you need to follow a specific debate. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is not a textbook. It is the book you wish you had been handed before your first conversation about the economy. It will let you follow real economic arguments, understand the logic of opposing schools of thought, and speak about economics with confidence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor anyone who wants to be intelligently equipped for the economic debates of the coming decade.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47891438633111,"sku":"9798197628336","price":1962.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798197628336.webp?v=1781183712","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-economic-mind-a-complete-plain-english-guide-to-the-ideas-debates-and-thinkers-that-shape-the-world-9798197628336","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}