{"product_id":"what-economists-do-a-journey-through-the-history-of-economic-thought-from-the-wealth-of-nations-to-the-calculus-of-consent-9781491701263","title":"What Economists Do: A Journey Through the History of Economic Thought: From the Wealth of Nations to the Calculus of Consent","description":"\u003cp\u003eEconomists are sometimes praised and often chastised for what happens to the nation and the world economies. But what exactly do economists do to earn either praise or scorn? Author Attiat F. Ott with Sheila Vegari explores the answer to that question in \u003ci\u003eWhat Economists Do: A Journey through the History of Economic Thought\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOtt and Vegari outline the discipline of economics through the views and ideas of nine political economists of the seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, and the twentieth centuries. The chronologies of ideas involve a journey through the history of economic thought from Adam Smith's The \u003ci\u003eWealth of Nations\u003c\/i\u003e to Nobel Laureate James Buchanan's \u003ci\u003eThe Calculus of Consent\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis study reviews some of the arguments offered about economics as a science, presents the concepts of political economy, and discusses the principles of the macro economy as put forth by John Maynard Keynes in \u003ci\u003eThe General Theory\u003c\/i\u003e. It also covers the idea of the public economy advanced by the classical economists and augmented by the work of Paul Samuelson, Richard Musgrave, Gordon Tullock and James Buchanan. It examines the role of the economist as a teacher, a political economist, and as an adviser to policy makers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat Economists Do: A Journey through the History of Economic Thought\u003c\/i\u003e provides an intriguing picture of how economics has come of age through a chronology of ideas and principles that shape the world's economies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e iUniverse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/12\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781491701263\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47d","brand":"Attiat F. Ott","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51280642506933,"sku":"9781491701263","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_c64a4295-ca58-48ae-be64-ae385f656197.jpg?v=1751468213","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/what-economists-do-a-journey-through-the-history-of-economic-thought-from-the-wealth-of-nations-to-the-calculus-of-consent-9781491701263","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}