Ill's theory of the taxation of land -- Kant's critique of judgment -- Some neglected points in the theory of socialism -- Böhm-Bawerk's definition of capital and the source of wages -- The food supply and the price of wheat -- Review of the land-systems of British India by B.H. Baden-Powell --...

Lewitt und sein Koautor haben bereits in "Freakonomics" (ID-G 11/06) und in dem Fortsetzungsband "SuperFreakonomics - Nichts ist so wie es scheint" (ID-B 24/10) eingefahrene Denkmuster hinterfragt. Auf den Kernideen in diesen beiden Büchern bauen sie nun auf und wollen jetzt zeigen, wie sich...

Demonstrates how ideas in economics have shaped business decisions and models, as well as government policies. Discusses the pace of future innovation, how economists think about the world, and the role and importance of markets and their limits.

"The book studies the origins and evolution of economic textbooks in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, up to the turning point represented by Paul Samuelson's Economics (1948), which became the template for all the textbooks of the postwar period. The case studies included in the book...