Applied Economics
Thinking Beyond Stage One
by Thomas Sowell
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Publisher description: The application of economics to major contemporary real world problems--housing, medical care, discrimination, the economic development of nations--is the theme of this new book that tackles these and other issues head on in plain language, as distinguished from the usual jargon of economists. It examines economic policies not simply in terms of their immediate effects but also in terms of their later repercussions, which are often very different and longer lasting. The interplay of politics with economics is another theme of Applied Economics, whose examples are drawn from experiences around the world, showing how similar incentives and constraints tend to produce similar outcomes among very disparate peoples and cultures.
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Applied economics: thinking beyond stage one
2009, Basic Books
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- Rev. and enl. ed.
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Applied economics: thinking beyond stage one
2009, Basic Books
in English
- Rev. and enl. ed.
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Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One
February 15, 2006, Blackstone
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in English
- Unabridged edition
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Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One, Library Edition
February 2006, Blackstone Audiobooks
MP3 CD
in English
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0786176601 9780786176601
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Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One
February 15, 2006, Blackstone
Audio CD
in English
- Unabridged edition
0786172266 9780786172269
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Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One
November 11, 2003, Basic Books
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"When we are talking about applied economic policies, we are no longer talking about pure economic principles, but about the interactions of politics and economics."
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"When we are talking about applied economic policies, we are no longer talking about pure economic principles, but about the interactions of politics and economics."
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This revised edition of Applied Economics is about fifty percent larger than the first edition. It now includes a chapter on the economics of immigration and new sections of other chapters on such topics as the “creative” financing of home-buying that led to the current “subprime” mortgage crisis, the economics of organ transplants, and the political and economic incentives that lead to money earmarked for highways being diverted to mass transit and to a general neglect of infrastructure. On these and other topics, its examples are drawn from around the world. Much material in the first edition has been updated and supplemented. The revised and enlarged edition of Applied Economics retains the easy readability of the first edition, even for people with no prior knowledge of economics.
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