Taking economics seriously / Dean Baker.
نوع المادة : نصالسلاسل:Boston review bookالناشر:Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2010]تاريخ حقوق النشر: ©2010وصف:87 pages ; 18 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780262014182
- 0262014181
- HB171 .B22 2010
نوع المادة | المكتبة الحالية | رقم الطلب | رقم النسخة | حالة | تاريخ الإستحقاق | الباركود | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | HB171 .B22 2010 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010011312012 |
Browsing UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات shelves, Shelving location: General Collection | المجموعات العامة إغلاق مستعرض الرف(يخفي مستعرض الرف)
HB171 .A336 2017 The Adam Smith Review ; edited by Fonna Forman volume 9 / | HB171 A8185 2012 Full-spectrum economics : toward an inclusive and emancipatory social science / | HB171 A8185 2012 Full-spectrum economics : toward an inclusive and emancipatory social science / | HB171 .B22 2010 Taking economics seriously / | HB171 B537 1997 What's the economy trying to tell you? : everyone's guide to understanding and profiting from the economy / | HB171 B5418 2001 Alternative principles of economics / | HB171 B56 2007 خواطر اقتصادية عابرة / |
The myth of the free market -- Malpractice -- The big bank theory -- An economy for everyone.
'There is nothing wrong with economics, Dean Baker contends, but economists routinely ignore their own principles when it comes to economic policy. What would policy look like if we took basic principles of mainstream economics seriously and applied them consistently? In the debate over regulation, for example, Baker--one of the few economists who predicted the meltdown of fall 2008--points out that ideological blinders have obscured the fact there is no "free market" to protect. Modern markets are highly regulated, although intrusive regulations such as copyright and patents are rarely viewed as regulatory devices. If we admit the extent to which the economy is and will be regulated, we have many more options in designing policy and deciding who benefits from it. On health care reform, Baker complains that economists ignore another basic idea: marginal cost pricing. Unlike all other industries, medical services are priced extraordinarily high, far above the cost of production, yet that discrepancy is rarely addressed in the debate about health care reform. What if we applied marginal cost pricing--making doctors' wages competitive and charging less for prescription drugs and tests such as MRIs? ..."--Product Description.