David Orrell (5 kníh)
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David Orrell Economyths ENWhen Economyths was first published by Wiley in 2010, David Orrell showed how mainstream economics is based on key myths such as fair competition, rational behaviour, stability and eternal growth – and how these myths lead paradoxically to their opposites: inequality, an irrational economy, financial instability and a collision with nature’s limits. Since then, we’ve had Occupy, political upheaval, flash crashes in…
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David Orrell Economyths ENFrom the inability of wealth to make us happier, to our catastrophic blindness to the credit crunch, Economyths reveals ten ways in which economics has failed us all. Forecasters predicted a prosperous year in 2008 for financial markets - in one influential survey the average prediction was for an eleven per cent gain. But by the end of the year, the Standard and Poor's 500 index - a key economic barometer - was…
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David Orrell, Borin Van Loon Introducing Economics ENBrand-new INTRODUCING guide to the subject that really makes the world go round. Economics was described by the English economist Lionel Robbins in 1935 as 'the science of scarcity' but these days economics is everywhere, and it's never been more popular - as bestselling books such as Freakanomics attest. But what is economics really all about? What do the great economists think, and what can economics do for us…
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David Orrell Quantum EconomicsA decade after the financial crisis, there is a growing consensus that economics has failed and needs to go back to the drawing board. David Orrell argues that it has been trying to solve the wrong problem all along...
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Tomáš Sedláček, Roman Chlupatý, David Orrell Soumrak homo economicus CZSoumrak homo economicus navazuje na úspěšnou Sedláčkovu prvotinu Ekonomie dobra a zla. I v tomto textu nalezneme snahu vrátit ekonomii lidský rozměr a lidem víru v ekonomii. Rozhovor Romana Chlupatého byl natočen v létě 2011 v anglickém Oxfordu pro rozhlasové vysílání. Výsledkem je svěží a srozumitelné zamyšlení nad těžce stravitelnými věcmi. S pomocí inspirativních paralel a metafor ze světa fyziky, biologie či…
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