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Invisible wealth : the hidden story of how markets work / [by] Arnold Kling and Nick Schulz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kling, Arnold S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Creative ability in business.
- Technological innovations--Economic aspects.
- Technological innovations.
- Success.
- Economics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (333 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Encounter Books, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The discipline of economics is not what it used to be. Over the last few decades, economists have begun a revolutionary reorientation in how we look at the world, and this has major implications for politics, policy, and our everyday lives. For years, conventional economists told us an incomplete story that leaned on the comfortable precision of mathematical abstraction and ignored the complexity of the real world with all of its uncertainties, unknowns, and ongoing evolution.What economists left out of the story were the positive forces of creativity, innovation, and advancing te
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface to the Paperback Edition; 1 An Introduction to Economics 2.0; 2 Economics 2.0 In Practice; Interview with Robert Fogel; Interview with Robert Solow; 3 From the Meadow to the Food Court; Interview with Paul Romer; Interview with Joel Mokyr; 4 Bugs in the Software Layer; Interview with Douglass North; Interview with William Easterly; 5 The Heart That Pumps Innovation; Interview with Edmund Phelps; Interview with Amar Bhide; 6 Financial Intermediation; 7 Adaptive Efficience and the Role of Government; Interview with William Lewis; 8 Challenges for the Future
- Interview with William BaumolNotes; Index
- Notes:
- Originally published in hardback in 2009 as: From poverty to prosperity : intangible assets, hidden liabilities and the lasting triumph over scarcity.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613263865
- 9781283263863
- 1283263866
- 9781594035425
- 1594035423
- OCLC:
- 751694099
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