Economic Ideas You Should Forget
Reporting on cutting-edge advances in economics, this book presents a selection of commentaries that reveal the weaknesses of several core economics concepts. Economics is a vigorous and progressive science, which does not lose its force when particular parts of its theory are empirically invalidate...
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| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2017.
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Introduction
- Capitalism
- Sola-Protestantism in Economics.-Economics Has Hothing to Do with Religion
- More Choice Is Always Better.-People Are Outcome-Oriented
- Deriving Peopls's Trade Policy Preferences from Macro-Economic Trade Theory
- Size (of Government) Doesn't Matter
- Byesianism
- The Return on Equity
- Peak Oil Theory
- More Choice Is Always Better
- (Un-)Productive Labor
- Volatility Is Risk
- Robots Will Take All Our Jobs
- Economic Growth Increase People's Well-Being
- Big Data Predictions Devoid of Theory
- Government Debts Are a Burden on Future Generations
- Public Spending Reduces Unemployment
- The Capital Asset Pricing Model
- Innovation Programs Lead to Innovation
- Factors of Production Are Homogenous Within Categories
- Individual Utility Depends Only on Absolut Consumption
- The Relative Price Effect Explains Behavior
- The Precedence of Exchange Over Production
- Inequality Reduces Growth
- Contingent Valuation, Willingness to Pay and Willingness to Accept
- Governments Must Reduce Budget Deficits
- Reach for Your Dream
- The EU's Competiveness Authority
- Say's Law
- Boundedness of Rationality
- Rational Expectations
- Letting Insolvent Banks Fail
- Pleasantville Politics - Selecting Politicians According to Ability
- The Axioms of Revealed Preference
- The Myth of Expansionary Consolidations
- Government Hurts the Economy More Than It Helps
- The Motivated Armchair Approach to Preferences
- Economics Is Based on Scientific Methods
- The Death of Distance
- Concept of Rationality
- Pay for Performance Raises Performance
- Home Ownership Is Good
- Coase Theorem
- Poverty Is Good for Development
- Markets Are Efficient
- CEOs Are Paid for Talent
- The Efficiency-Equity Tradeoff
- Deterministic Trend of Inequality
- Quantitative Easing
- Hosting the Olympic Games
- Abolishing Cash as Solution Against the Evil
- Receiving Money and Hot Having to work Raises Happiness
- Saints in Public Office
- Helicopter Money
- Decisions are Deterministic
- Politicians Systematically Converge to the Median Voter
- Artists Are Poor and Thus Unhappy
- Returns on Educational Investments Are Highest for Early Childhood Interventions
- EU Centralization
- The Alleged Asymmetry in Maintaining a Fixed Exchange Rate
- Governments Should Maximize the Happiness of the Population
- Okun's Equality-Efficiency Tradeoff
- A Rising Tide Raises all Boats
- Social Cost Analysis
- Natural Resources Make Rich
- The Natural Rate of Interest Is Positive
- Europe's "Skill Shortage"
- Taxes are Paid Because of Expected Punishment
- Better safe than Sorry
- The End of Work
- Postscript .
