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Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science Hardcover – 2015

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Rodrik s plea is for economics to be practiced with a bit more humility both by those who extol free markets and those who would tame them.--Steven Pearlstein"

Full of good insights. . . . If you re at all interested in economics you ll want to read it.--Clive Crook"

Economics Rules, by one of the world's truly great economists, describes in fascinating and incredibly well-written detail what it means to be an economist. In so doing it explains why, and when, economists often get it right, but also why they also frequently go astray. --George Akerlof, Nobel laureate in economics --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Dani Rodrik, Albert O. Hirschman Professor in the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University
Dani Rodrik is the Albert O. Hirschman Professor at the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J. Previously he held professorships at Harvard and Columbia Universities. He is the author, among other works, of The Globalization Paradox (2011) and One Economics, Many Recipes (2007). He has published widely in economic development and growth, globalization, and political economy.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Must read explanation of economics 8 Nov. 2015
By Peter B Sperry - Published on Amazon.com
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Dani Rodrik explains economists, their methodologies, biases, strengths, and weaknesses for non economist intellectuals. The book read like an extended opening statement at an Ivy League faculty dinner debate. The defensive attitude is impossible to miss but does not detract from the overall quality of the arguments. It would be fascinating to read a rebuttal by an equally talented academic from a competing discipline. It would be equally enlightening to watch Professor Rodrik arguing for the negative team in an Oxford style debate on the question "Resolved, economists are so full of it their eyes are brown." He just might win over the audience. At the very least he would make them think. I am curious who he would recommend as his opponent in that debate.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Very thoughtful summary of recent progresses in economics 30 Dec. 2015
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I teach economics and yet learnt a lot. Rodrik is an outstanding writer and this book is better than many of his other ones. I'll use it in my courses, because it points at how to use the toolkits that we have in store. We do this constantly, without realizing. Here, Rodrik puts the process in plain light and helps us id and systematize it.
5.0 out of 5 stars A good book about the actual role of micro-economics. 12 July 2016
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The author here examines important questions, as about the actuality of the game theory and the its capacity of prediction. The last role looks like less important than some years ago, but Rodrik retains that for partial aspects it is still possible to construct the old back-ground. It should be avoided a general vision as that of general equilibrium, so we must accept at least the Smith philosophy. The result is that the game theory offers today an important language for several questions, but for example some questions, as the asymmetric information, are correlated to few problems, they aren't general keys for the life of every day.
5.0 out of 5 stars A great book! 4 Jun. 2016
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I liked the simple and direct way of explaining a difficult subject: what economists do and how they do it. Also, I enjoyed the illustration of the diversity within the profession.
I recommend the book to anybody interested in understanding the thinking process that goes into economics and, again, the diverse angles involved in it.
The five stars are deserved for clarity on a deep and complex subject, as well as for a well written and documented research. I hope it will have many readers, but especially economists!
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book on the strengths and limitations of economics 5 July 2016
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Honest assessment of economics as a social science, defense of economic modeling, good read for both economists and non economists
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