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Phil Thornton is lead consultant at Clarity Economics, a consultancy and freelance writing service he set up after a 15-year career as a newspaper journalist. Before founding Clarity Economics he was Economics Correspondent at the Independent newspaper, a post he held for eight years. Phil is an award winning journalist, with a strong platform. His awards include Feature Journalist of the Year award in the Work World Media Awards, 2010 and Print Journalist of the Year Work World Media Awards, 2007



Table of Contents

About the Author

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1 – Adam Smith – the ‘founding father’ of economics

Chapter 2 – David Ricardo – from immigrant to gentleman

Chapter 3 – Karl Marx – the fallen hero?

Chapter 4 – Alfred Marshall – microeconomics arrives

Chapter 5 – John Maynard Keynes – the rise, fall, rise … and fall

Chapter 6 – Friedrich Hayek – the archetypal libertarian

Chapter 7 – Milton Friedman – father of monetarism

Chapter 8 – Paul Samuelson – the neoclassical economist synthesist

Chapter 9 – Gary Becker – economics in the real world

Chapter 10 - Daniel Kahneman – economic psychologist

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      Publisher Pearson Education
      Published 5/22/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9781292009414
      978-1292009414
      ISBN-10 1292009411
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      Business, Finance & Law Economics Macroeconomics Microeconomics

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Phil Thornton is lead consultant at Clarity Economics, a consultancy and freelance writing service he set up after a 15-year career as a newspaper journalist. Before founding Clarity Economics he was Economics Correspondent at the Independent newspaper, a post he held for eight years. Phil is an award winning journalist, with a strong platform. His awards include Feature Journalist of the Year award in the Work World Media Awards, 2010 and Print Journalist of the Year Work World Media Awards, 2007



      Table of Contents

      About the Author

      Acknowledgements

      Introduction

      Chapter 1 – Adam Smith – the ‘founding father’ of economics

      Chapter 2 – David Ricardo – from immigrant to gentleman

      Chapter 3 – Karl Marx – the fallen hero?

      Chapter 4 – Alfred Marshall – microeconomics arrives

      Chapter 5 – John Maynard Keynes – the rise, fall, rise … and fall

      Chapter 6 – Friedrich Hayek – the archetypal libertarian

      Chapter 7 – Milton Friedman – father of monetarism

      Chapter 8 – Paul Samuelson – the neoclassical economist synthesist

      Chapter 9 – Gary Becker – economics in the real world

      Chapter 10 - Daniel Kahneman – economic psychologist

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