E-raamat: In the Long Run We're All Dead: The Lives and Deaths of Great Economists

This is a fascinating, readable, and quirky set of mini-biographies of some leading, and more obscure economists, united in having interesting lives and deaths. [ Frank] manages to tell us something new about Keynes, List, Schumpeter and Thunen; and introduces us to the innovative Schmolder, the Nazi economist Stackelberg, the brave Soviet agricultural economist Chayanov and Richard Cantillon whose sophisticated monetary economics dates from three hundred years ago. Vince Cable; This is a gem of a book. Engaging and short biographies of famous and not so famous economists whose death can illuminate their life and work. Full of economic insights explained in plain prose that will appeal to anyone interested in the dismal science. A thoroughly enjoyable read. Dr Toke Aidt, University of Cambridge; Björn Frank has written an ingenious and darkly humorous set of portraits of seminal economic thinkers. Weaving together ideas and biography, he includes stories of economists who have been neglected in the English-speaking world while finding a fresh take on the well-known giants. Elegant, original and highly entertaining. Niall Kishtainy, author of A Little History of Economics; By using their death as a lens through which to examine their lives, Björn Frank has created a novel, entertaining, and informative way to introduce readers to the work of almost twenty economists from the past two centuries. This compact work melds economic analysis with biography to shed new light on some of the disciplines most influential research and theories. While several famous figures appear Keynes, Marx, Coase the book also includes many who will be new to non-economists. Newly-published from the German, In the Long Run Were All Dead also has the merit of bringing to peoples attention several of that countrys economists whose reputation has undeservedly faded over time. Phil Thornton, author of The Great Economists: Ten Economists Whose Thinking Changed the Way We Live; A good dozen elegant and entertaining miniatures. (...) Bjoern Frank uses a pointed, ironic pen and has a loving eye for bizarre or even tragi-comic details - CATHERINE NEWMARK, DEUTSCHLANDFUNK KULTUR; It's entertaining and enlightening NZZ STORY