Eamonn Butler

An Introduction to Schools of Economic Thought (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This guide for lay readers covers the main schools of economic thought in world history. Eamonn Butler provides a clear, jargon-free introduction to the ideas, debates and people that have had an impact, for better and worse, on human prosperity and welfare. From Aristotle to Adam Smith and Karl Marx, in the Austrian and Chicago Schools, and with modern ideas such as Behavioural Economics and Public Choice Theory, economic ideas and individuals have influenced the lives of us all.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: London Publishing Partnership
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780255368506
• Artikelnr.: 74883803

Autorenporträt

Eamonn Butler is Director of the Adam Smith Institute, one of the world's leading policy think tanks. He holds degrees in economics and psychology, a PhD in philosophy and an honorary DLitt. In the 1970s he worked in Washington, DC, for the US House of Representatives, and taught philosophy at Hillsdale College, Michigan, before returning to the UK to co-found the Adam Smith Institute. He has won the Freedom Medal of Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, the UK National Free Enterprise Award and the Hayek Institute Lifetime Achievement Award; his film Secrets of the Magna Carta won an award at the Anthem Film Festival; and his book Foundations of a Free Society won the Fisher Prize. Eamonn's other books include introductions to the pioneering economists Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, F. A. Hayek and Ludwig von Mises, and primers on a wide range of topics, including capitalism, classical liberalism, democracy, economic inequality, public choice, taxation, trade, the Austrian School of Economics and great liberal thinkers. He has also published The Condensed Wealth of Nations and The Best Book on the Market, and is coauthor of Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls and a series of books on IQ. He is a frequent contributor to print, broadcast and online media.