Ricardo's Dream

How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-5292-2550-1
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 422 g

From the workings of financial markets to our response to the ecological crisis, economic theory shapes the world. But where do these ideas come from?

Ricardo’s Dream tells the fascinating story of David Ricardo, Adam Smith’s only real rival as the ‘founder of economics’. The wealthiest stock trader of his day, Ricardo introduced the study of abstract models to economics. He also developed the theory of trade that underpinned globalization and hides, behind its mathematical facade, a history of power, empire, and slavery.

Brimming with fresh ideas and stories, Ricardo’s Dream shows how too many economists, from Ricardo’s day to our own, have turned away from observing the real world and led us astray.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dyer, Nat

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Internationaler Handel
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Außenhandel
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: "As Certain as the Principle of Gravitation"

Part 1: Birth

1. The Other Founding Father of Economics

2. "The Unshakeable Basis for International Trade"

3. Unequal Treaty

4. Black Gold

5. Newton's Mint

6. The Empire of Free Trade

Part 2: Death

7. "Dropped from Another Planet"

8. "Purely Hypothetical Truths"

9. The Fall

Part 3: Rebirth

10. The Return of Unreality

11. Big Finance

12. Trading Barbarians

13. Life: An Externality

14. New Hope

Conclusion: Look at the World

Über Autor(innen)

Nat Dyer is a writer and researcher specialising in global political economy. He is a Fellow of the Schumacher Institute and the Royal Society of Arts. He has worked for Global Witness and for Promoting Economic Pluralism and his stories have been reported on by the BBC, the New York Times and Bloomberg. Find out more at @natjdyer and www.natdyer.com.