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Alfred Marshall FBA (26 July 1842 – 13 July 1924) was an English economist and one of the most influential economists of his time. His book Principles of Economics (1890) was the dominant economic textbook in England for many years.
Tyler Cowen (/ ˈ k aʊ ən /; born January 21, 1962) is an American economist, columnist, and blogger.He is a professor at George Mason University, where he holds the Holbert L. Harris chair in the economics department.
Principles of Economics [1] is a leading political economy or economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842–1924), first published in 1890. [2] [3] It was the standard text for generations of economics students. Called his magnum opus, [4] it ran to eight editions by 1920. [5]
Principles of Economics may refer to a number of texts by different academic economists: Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaftslehre (Principles of Economics) (1870) by Carl Menger, the first to use the title, dropping "political" from the term "political economy" Principles of Economics (1890) by Alfred Marshall
Modern monetary theory or modern money theory (MMT) is a heterodox [1] macroeconomic theory that describes currency as a public monopoly and unemployment as evidence that a currency monopolist is overly restricting the supply of the financial assets needed to pay taxes and satisfy savings desires. [2]
Lucas and Cohen divorced in the 1980s. The divorce stipulation had a clause that entitled Cohen to half of his Nobel prize winnings if the prize were to be awarded before October 31, 1995, which ended up being the case. [7] After his divorce from Cohen, Lucas married Nancy Stokey. [6]
CORE Econ's authors claim that popular textbooks such as Principles of Economics by Greg Mankiw are little different in content to the first modern text book, Economics by Paul Samuelson, which was published in 1948, [20] meaning that these textbooks have ignored many of the innovations in economics since then:
The main thesis is that economic growth has slowed in the United States and in other advanced economies, as a result of falling rates of innovation. [3] In Chapter 1, Cowen describes the three major forms of "low-hanging fruit": the ease of cultivating free and unused land, rapid invention from 1880 to 1940 which capitalized on the scientific breakthroughs of the 18th and 19th centuries and ...