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How markets fail : the rise and fall of free market economics / John Cassidy.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Picador, 2021Edition: Picador paperback 2021 editionDescription: xvii, 411 pages : chart ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781250781284 (paperback)
  • 1250781280 (paperback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 381
LOC classification:
  • HB 3722 C345h 2021
Summary: Describes the rising influence of "utopian economies"--The thinking that is blind to how real people act and that denies the many ways an unregulated free market can bring on disaster. Combining on-the-ground reporting and clear explanations of economic theories Cassidy warns that in today's economic crisis, following old orthodoxies isn't just misguided--it's downright dangerous
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HB 3722 C345h 2021 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000163780

Originally published in 2009 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux as How Markets Fail: the logic of economic calamities.

"With a new preface"--Cover

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Describes the rising influence of "utopian economies"--The thinking that is blind to how real people act and that denies the many ways an unregulated free market can bring on disaster. Combining on-the-ground reporting and clear explanations of economic theories Cassidy warns that in today's economic crisis, following old orthodoxies isn't just misguided--it's downright dangerous

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