Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Literally as new.; 435 pages; 1st edition, 2nd printing. Physical description: xxii, 435 p. ; 21 cm. Summary: A stimulating and inviting tour of modern economics centered on the story of one of its most important breakthroughs. In 1980, the twenty-four-year-old graduate student Paul Romer tackled one of the oldest puzzles in economics. Eight years later he solved it. This book tells the story of what has come to be called the new growth theory: the paradox identified by Adam Smith more than two hundred years earlier, its disappearance and occasional resurfacing in the nineteenth century, the development of new technical tools in the twentieth century, and finally the student who could see further than his teachers. Fascinating in its own right, new growth theory helps to explain dominant first-mover firms like IBM or Microsoft, underscores the value of intellectual property, and provides essential advice to those concerned with the expansion of the economy. Like James Gleick's Chaos or Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe, this revealing book takes us to the frontlines of scientific research; not since Robert Heilbroner's classic work The Worldly Philosophers have we had as attractive a glimpse of the essential science of economics.
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"Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations" is a stimulating and inviting tour of modern economics centred on the story of one of its most important breakthroughs. In 1980, graduate student Paul Romer tackled one of the oldest puzzles in economics. Eight years later, he solved it. This book tells the story of what has come to be called the new growth theory: the paradox identified by Adam Smith, its disappearance and occasional resurfacing in the nineteenth century, the development of new technical tools in the twentieth century, and finally the student who could see further than his teachers. New growth theory helps to explain dominant first-mover firms like IBM or Microsoft, underscores the value of intellectual property and provides essential advice to those concerned with the expansion of the economy. This revealing book takes us to the front lines of scientific research, giving us a fascinating glimpse of the essential science of economics.
Biografía del autor:
Former Boston Globe columnist DAVID WARSH writes the online newsletter Economic Principals and is presently a fellow of the American Academy in Berlin.
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- EditorialWW Norton & Co
- Año de publicación2006
- ISBN 10 0393059960
- ISBN 13 9780393059960
- EncuadernaciónTapa dura
- Número de páginas448
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