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  • ECONOMIC THEORY FOR THE REAL WORLD
    VICTOR A. BEKER
    After the Great Financial Crisis, economic theory was fiercely criticized from both outside and inside the discipline for being incapable of explaining a crisis of such magnitude. Slowly but persistently, new strands of economic thought are developing, to replace the old-fashioned neoclassical economic theory, which have a common characteristic: they are better suited to help u...

    $1,240.00

  • ECONOMICS, SOCIAL SCIENCE AND PLURALISM
    VICTOR A. BEKER
    In the work of most classical economists – including Smith and Keynes – theory was often embedded in application. But from the second half of the last century on, mainstream economics styled itself as "pure" economics, where the theory is presented in a very abstract form detached from any application. This book maintains that economics is a social science whose mission is to e...

    $1,200.00

  • PREVENTING THE NEXT FINANCIAL CRISIS
    VICTOR A. BEKER
    The collapse of Lehman Brothers, the oldest and fourth-largest US investment bank, in September 2008 precipitated the global financial crisis. This deepened the contraction in economic activity that had already started in December 2007 and has become known as the Great Recession. Following a sluggish and uneven period of recovery, levels of private debt have recently been on th...

    $1,160.00

  • REAL WORLD ECONOMICS
    VICTOR A. BEKER
    The starting point of this book is that economics is an applied science: a tool to understand the real-world economy and a guide for economic policy. In contrast to the unrealistic and artificial models of neoclassical economics, the book argues that the point of departure for economic theory should be the real world with realistic assumptions being made. The book explores the ...

    $1,240.00