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Publication
Oxford University Press (2011), Edition: 1, 376 pages
Description
Tomas Sedlacek has shaken the study of economics as few ever have. Named one of the ""Young Guns"" and one of the ""five hot minds in economics"" by the Yale Economic Review, he serves on the National Economic Council in Prague, where his provocative writing has achieved bestseller status. How has he done it? By arguing a simple, almost heretical proposition: economics is ultimately about good and evil. In The Economics of Good and Evil, Sedlacek radically rethinks his field, challenging our assumptions about the world. Economics is touted as a science, a value-free mathematical inquiry, he wr
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2009
Physical description
376 p.; 9.3 inches
ISBN
0199767203 / 9780199767205
UPC
000199767203