Intro -- _Hlk489962505 -- _Hlk505371102 -- _Hlk505347516 -- The author -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- This book -- Microeconomics and macroeconomics -- Sources -- References -- 2 Market structures and incentives -- Meat and potato pies and the Nobel Prize in economics -- Incentives, scarce...

Economists and economics have been harshly criticised recently. This book accepts many of the criticisms of conventional theory but argues that the fundamental insights of economics are capable of reinterpretation and reinvention to deal with a host of contemporary concerns - social networks,...

Bordo and Helbing (2003) examine the business cycle in Western economies over the 1881-2001 period. They examine four distinct periods in economic history and conclude that there is a secular trend towards greater synchronisation for much of the 20th century, and that it takes place across these...