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Roger E. Backhouse

Auteur van The Penguin History of Economics

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Roger E. Backhouse is Professor of the History and Philosophy of Economics at the University of Birmingham and at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is the author of The Ordinary Business of Life and The Penguin Histroy of Economics and co-editor (with Philippe Fontaine) of The History of the Social toon meer Sciences since 1945 (Cambridge University Press, 2010) among numerous other titles. toon minder
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Werken van Roger E. Backhouse

The Penguin History of Economics (2002) 86 exemplaren
The Cambridge Companion to Keynes (2006) 42 exemplaren
História da economia mundial (2007) 2 exemplaren
Applied Uk Macroeconomics (1991) 1 exemplaar

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I'll admit I gave up on this one. The first hundred pages or so of clear history and development of economics through ancient times, the medieval era and the enlightenment hit a brick wall halfway through, giving way to dense discussions of money supply and labour value. I couldn't cope with it anymore, which is disappointing because I stopped before the modern Keynesian theory and all that follows. I'll ask an economist friend about that stuff...
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notmyrealname | 1 andere bespreking | Nov 16, 2008 |
Unfortunately I didn't pay enough attention to the scope of this book before I started to read it. Within the first three sentences the author makes it clear that this book is about the history of economic thought and ideas, rather than economic phenomena themselves. Perhaps the book should have been entitled 'History of Economic Thought' then. It is clearly a good introduction to that, however since I was hoping for more understanding of economics itself I found myself occasionally without sufficient knowledge of the topics. It can also be rather dry, with one economic 'thinker' following another relentlessly.… (meer)
 
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