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Essays in Biography.(Review)
Essays in Biography, by H.W. Arndt (supplement to the History of Economics Review, Summer 2000; enquiries to william.coleman@utas.edu.au.
HEINZ ARNDT has had a long career as one of the most distinguished economists in Australia, most of it spent within the Australian National University in Canberra. In the course of that career he has met and conversed with most of the Australian economists of significance, and formed friendships with many of them. In this collection of occasional pieces he looks back on some of those he has known and in the process says many things of importance about the nature of Australian economics and professional economists.
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- Economics.(Review)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) July 17, 1999 700+ words
Vintage Krug THE RETURN OF DEPRESSION ECONOMICS. By Paul Krugman. Norton; 176 pages; $23.95. Penguin; Pounds16.99 IT IS a pity that this excellent book did not come out sooner. With the world economy now seemingly on the mend and financial markets buoyant again, Paul Krugman's account of the recent
- Labor Economics.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Industrial and Labor Relations Review McLaughlin, Kenneth J. January 1, 2001 700+ words
Why Wages Don't Fall during a Recession. By Truman F. Bewley. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. 527 pp. ISBN 0-674-95241-3, $55.00 (cloth). Wage rigidity is something to be documented and something to be explained. By using the unusual method of listening to business people, Truman
- Health Economics.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Journal of Risk and Insurance Born, Patricia September 1, 1999 700+ words
Health Economics, by Peter Zweifel and Friedrich Breyer (Oxford University Press, 1997) The authors of Health Economics claim three differences between their text and other books on health economics: an international focus, models that recognize the complexities in today's health care systems, and
- Deconstructing Economics.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Peace and Freedom Flax, Sally Kagan, Corin March 22, 2001 700+ words
Our book, Women in a World of Money: Making the Local to Global Connections, was inspired by our 23-day journey on the WILPF Peace Train from Helsinki to Beijing to attend the 4th U.N. World Conference on Women in 1995. Exchanging ideas with the 234 women on the train and the women at the seven
- Energy Economics.(Review)
- Magazine article from: The Energy Journal Gordon, Richard L. April 1, 2001 700+ words
A Modern Introduction by FERDINAND E. BANKS. (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000). 288 pages, ISBN 0-7923-7700-1 Banks has sought to fill a significant hiatus in energy economics, a clear, contemporary, comprehensive textbook on energy economics. As expected from his prior work, the resulting
- Development Economics.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Southern Economic Journal Pack, Howard April 1, 1999 700+ words
By Debraj Ray. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 848. $55.00. Most economists who teach either undergraduate or graduate courses in development economics have desired a new text that contains the newer topics of the last two decades. Professor Ray's textbook satisfies this
- Race and Economics.(Review)
- Magazine article from: The American Enterprise Henderson, David R. September 1, 1999 700+ words
Race and Economics By Thomas Sowell, 1975 Thomas Sowell has been churning out books since the early 1970s. Much of his writing examines the economic and social fortunes of ethnic groups, both in the United States and around the world. Sowell skewers beliefs that many of us have become attached to,
- The Return of Depression Economics.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Finance & Development Masson, Paul R. December 1, 1999 700+ words
Paul Krugman Norton, New York, 1999, xiv + 176 pp., $23.95 (cloth). THIS READABLE little volume is directed primarily to a lay audience rather than to professional economists. It describes in nontechnical language some of the burning issues in economics, including the causes of the Mexican, Asian,
