Tag: Market

April 1, 2023

The Romantic Economist A Story of Love and Market Forces Nicolson, Will

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Free Download , "The Romantic Economist: A Story of Love and Market Forces Nicolson, Will"
English | ISBN: 1780721021 | 2013 | pages | EPUB | 2 MB
I know that this sounds like a bit of a cliche, but really, it’s not you – ‘ His torturer was funny, talented, and unbearably beautiful. His mother had said she wanted him to marry her. And he had lost her in a personal best time of six weeks. It was when he found himself being dumped like this yet again that William Nicolson decided something had to be done. William is an economist, which means he is good at reducing an infinitely complex world into a set of clear, rational principles about the way people and markets behave. Unfortunately, he has never been able to replicate this in the world of romance. Girls confuse him. In this book, he sets out to apply the rules of economics to save his floundering love life. For a time, everything seems to be clearer. Want to play hard to get? Reduce your supply. Want a girlfriend? Find an undervalued asset. Why are all the good ones taken? That’ll be the Efficient Market Hypothesis. But things don’t work out quite as he’d hoped. In fact, he fin

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March 31, 2023

Free Market Conservatism

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Free Download Edward Nell, "Free Market Conservatism"
English | 2009 | pages: 230 | ISBN: 0415570476, 0415567157 | PDF | 2,3 mb
First published in 1984, this book carefully dissects and convincingly demonstrates that conservative economics is incoherent in theory and disastrous in practice. The three main schools of thought supporting "free-market" policies – supply side economics, monetarism and rational expectations- are examined in turn and each is found defective. Three case studies of conservative policy in action follow: Reagan’s U.S., Thatcher’s U.K. and Pinochet’s Chile and their courses are charted in economic conservatism’s ideology and social policy, and the book concludes with an assessment of the political reasons for the theoretical incoherence and practical failure.

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