From the inability of wealth to make us happier, to our catastrophic blindness to the credit crunch, Economyths reveals ten ways in which economics has failed us all.Forecasters predicted a prosperous year in 2008 for financial markets - in one influential survey the average prediction was for an el
Economyths: Ten Ways Economics Gets It Wrong
โ Scribed by David Orrell
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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