Author: Joseph Heath
Translator: Shi-nae Noh
Publisher: Mati
400 pages | 223*152mm
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About This Book
"Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to
man." -- Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson (1946)
Every day economic claims are used by the media or in conversation to
support social and political positions. Those on the left tend to
distrust economists, seeing them as friends of the right. There is
something to this, since professional economists are almost all keen
supporters of the free market. Yet while factions on the right naturally
embrace economists, they also tend to overestimate the effect of their
support on free-market policies. The result is widespread confusion. In
fact, virtually all commonly held beliefs about economics--whether
espoused by political activists, politicians, journalists or
taxpayers--are just plain wrong.
Professor Joseph Heath wants to raise our economic literacy and empower
us with new ideas. In Economics Without Illusions, he draws on everyday
examples to skewer the six favourite economic fallacies of the right,
followed by impaling the six favourite fallacies of the left. Heath
leaves no sacred cows untipped as he breaks down complex arguments and
shows how the world really works. The popularity of such books as
Freakonomics and Predictably Irrational demonstrates that people want a
better understanding of the financial forces that affect them. Highly
readable, cogently argued and certain to raise ire along all points of
the socio-political spectrum, Economics Without Illusions offers readers
the economic literacy they need to genuinely understand and critique the
pros and cons of capitalism.
About the Author
JOSEPH HEATH is an associate professor at the University of Toronto,
where he teaches in the Department of Philosophy and the School of
Public Policy and Governance. He is the author of three previousbooks:
Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture (with
Andrew Potter); Communicative Action and Rational Choice, which won the
Canadian Philosophical Association Book Prize for 2003; and The
Efficient Society, a Maclean's and Globe and Mail bestseller selected by
the Globe as one of the best books of 2001. He writes a monthly column
for the journal Policy Options and is a frequent contributor to The
Montreal Gazette.
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