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1 online resource (vi, 336 pages) |
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Table of Contents; Introduction; PART 1 The New Economy; Natural Growth; The Institutions of Wealth; Real Money; Good Globalization; PART 2 The American Laboratory; The Production of Ideas; The Business of Education; Rationality Everywhere; The Limits of Pure Reason; PART 3 The Convergence of Nations; The End of Mass Poverty; Asian Tigers; India: A Market Revolution; In Brazil, the Future Is Now; PART 4 Coming Outof Socialism; The Great Transition; The Russian Addiction; The Truth about China; The Turkish March; PART 5 Cases of Decline; Europe Versus the United States; Setting Sun |
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Will the Greenhouse Effect Leave Us Broke?In Search of a Consensus; Acknowledgments; Index |
| Summary |
Though Economics as a discipline arose in Great Britain and France at the end of the eighteenth century, it has taken two centuries to reach the threshold of scientific rationality. Previously, intuition, opinions, and conviction enjoyed equal status in economic thought; theories were vague, often unverifiable. It is no wonder, then, that bad economic policies ravaged entire nations during the twentieth century. In Economics Does Not Lie, noted French journalist Guy Sorman examines the state of economic affairs today. Virtually everywhere, the public sector has given ground to privatization |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Free enterprise.
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Free trade.
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Economic policy.
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Economics.
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Economics
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economics.
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Economic policy
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Economics
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Free enterprise
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Free trade
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2009006924 |
| ISBN |
9781594034381 |
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1594034389 |
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1282488074 |
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9781282488076 |
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9786612488078 |
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6612488077 |
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