Author: David Colander
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pu
Keywords: economist, european, making
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2009-09-01
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 1848446411
ISBN-13: 9781848446410

David Colander’s highly original and thought provoking book considers ongoing changes in graduate European economics education. Following up on his earlier classic studies of US graduate economic education, he studies the ’economist production function’ in which universities take student ’raw material’ and transform it into economists, in doing so he provides insight into economists and economics. He argues that until recently Europe had a different ’economist production function’ than did the US; thus European economists were different from their US c

Author: David Colander
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: redux, economist, making
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2007-03-19
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0691125856
ISBN-13: 9780691125855

Economists seem to be everywhere in the media these days. But what exactly do today’s economists do? What and how are they taught? Updating David Colander and Arjo Klamer’s classic The Making of an Economist, this book shows what is happening in elite U.S. economics Ph.D. programs. By examining these programs, Colander gives a view of cutting-edge economics--and a glimpse at its likely future. And by comparing economics education today to the findings of the original book, the new book shows how much--and in what ways--the field has changed over the past two decades. The original b

Author: David Colander
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwi
Keywords: economics
Number of Pages: 924
Published: 2007-10-15
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0073402869
ISBN-13: 9780073402864

Written in an informal colloquial style, this student-friendly Principles of Economics textbook does not sacrifice intellectual depth in its quest for accessibility. The author’s primary concern is to instill “economic sensibility” in the student. Colander emphasizes the intellectual and historical context to which the economic models are applied. The seventh edition has been significantly revised to make it simpler, shorter, more organized and more applicable to the real world.

Author: David C. Colander
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pu
Keywords: economics, profession, essays, lost, art
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-07-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 184376489X
ISBN-13: 9781843764892

Economics is the study of a complex system in which simple laws are not always forthcoming. That complexity mandates three branches of the profession: positive, normative and the art of economics. The economics profession has focused on one of these - positive economics, and in doing so has lost the art of economics. In a series of provocative essays, available now in paperback format, the author argues that most of what economists do is applied policy, which belongs in the art of economics, not in normative or positive economics. The essays explore the forces in academic institutions that hav

Author: David Colander
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: economics, walrasian, post, microfoundations
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 1996-01-26
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 0521552370
ISBN-13: 9780521552370

Beyond Microfoundations discusses the foundations for a post-Walrasian macroeconomics and, in doing so, carries the work of Robert Clower and Axel Leijonhufvud to the present. This book spells out both why a new approach to macro is needed, and what the essence of the approach will be. This post-Walrasian approach to macro is neither Keynesian nor Classical, both of which have Walrasian foundations, but it offers an approach to macro in which Walrasian economics is turned on its head. Specifically, it rejects the Walrasian ad hoc assumptions of the existence of a unique equilibrium and of simp

Author: David Colander
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Keywords: guide, study, microeconomics
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-09-27
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0073343706
ISBN-13: 9780073343709

Author: David Colander
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: redux, economist, making
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2008-11-17
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0691138516
ISBN-13: 9780691138510

Economists seem to be everywhere in the media these days. But what exactly do today’s economists do? What and how are they taught? Updating David Colander and Arjo Klamer’s classic The Making of an Economist, this book shows what is happening in elite U.S. economics Ph.D. programs. By examining these programs, Colander gives a view of cutting-edge economics--and a glimpse at its likely future. And by comparing economics education today to the findings of the original book, the new book shows how much--and in what ways--the field has changed over the past two decades. The original b