The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help… by Linda Yueh · Audiobook preview

The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today
Authored by Linda Yueh
Narrated by Linda Yueh

0:00 Intro
0:03 Introduction: Great Economists on Our Economic Challenges
10:23 Outro

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BOOK DESCRIPTION

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Great Economists written and read by Linda Yueh.

What can the ideas of history's greatest economists tell us about the most important issues of our time?

Since the days of Adam Smith, economists have grappled with a series of familiar problems - but often their ideas are hard to digest, before we even try to apply them to today's issues. Linda Yueh is renowned for her combination of erudition, as an accomplished economist herself, and accessibility, as a leading writer and broadcaster in this field; and in The Great Economists she explains the key thoughts of history's greatest economists, how their lives and times affected their ideas, how our lives have been influenced by their work, and how they could help with the policy challenges that we face today.

In the light of current economic problems, and in particular economic growth, Yueh explores the thoughts of economists from Adam Smith and David Ricardo through Joan Robinson and Milton Friedman to Douglass North and Robert Solow. Along the way she asks, for example: what do the ideas of Karl Marx tell us about the likely future for the Chinese economy? How does the work of John Maynard Keynes, who argued for government spending to create full employment, help us think about state investment? And with globalization in trouble, what can we learn about handling Brexit and Trumpism?

'Economics students, like others, can learn a lot from this book' - Professor Paul Collier, author of The Bottom Billion

'Not only a great way to learn in an easily readable manner about some of the greatest economic influences of the past, but also a good way to test your own a priori assumptions about some of the big challenges of our time.' - Lord Jim O'Neill, former Chairman at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, former UK Treasury Minister, and author of The Growth Map

'An extremely engaging survey of the lifetimes and ideas of the great thinkers of economic history.' - Professor Kenneth Rogoff, author of The Curse of Cash and co-author of This Time is Different

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Linda Yueh is a Fellow in Economics at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University, Adjunct Professor of Economics at London Business School, Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics, and was Visiting Professor of Economics at Peking University. The former Economics Editor at Bloomberg TV, she also hosted Talking Business with Linda Yueh as Chief Business Correspondent for BBC News. She writes for The Times, The New York Times and The Financial Times and has advised, among others, The World Bank and World Economic Forum in Davos. She has written and edited a number of academic books on China, globalisation and also a macroeconomics textbook. This is her first trade book.

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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS

Language: English
Publisher: Penguin
Published on: April 5, 2018
ISBN: 9780241984130
Duration: 14 hr, 10 min
Genres: Business & Economics / Consumer Behavior, Business & Economics / Development / Economic Development, Business & Economics / Economic History, Business & Economics / Economics / General, Business & Economics / Economics / Microeconomics, Business & Economics / Globalization, Business & Economics / Government & Business, Business & Economics / Industrial Management, Business & Economics / International / Economics & Trade, Business & Economics / International / General, Business & Economics / Labor / General