Economists can be bad for your Health

Second Thoughts on the Dismal Science

George P. Brockway

Publisher: Norton, 1995 , 160 pages

ISBN: 0-393-03884-X

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George Brockway has long demonstrated that questions of economists can profitably be asked and challenges to prevailing assumptions humanely posed. With wit, erudition, and the steadfast opinion that economics is the study of human interactions and the values that define us, he wades into waters most of us contentedly leave to the so-called experts.

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• Trust in life
• The fear of full employment
• The productivity scam
• Are you naturally unemployed?
• Bankers have the classic cola
• Life, liberty, and property
• Who killed the Savings and Loans?
• What happened to Jimmy Carter
• In for a penny, in for a pound
• New ways to get rich
• Go and catch a falling dollar
• Junk bonds and watered stock
• Why not meet the payroll?
• Economists can be bad for your health
• In pursuit of a fiscal fantasy
• Starving all the way from the bank
• Playing the China card
• Trickle-down greed
• The morals of the marketplace
• Bishops move diagonally
• No concordance
• The Reserve takes flight once again
• The Oktoberfest of 1987
• Schumpeter revisited
• The affluent society twenty-five years later
• The last chapter in Keynes
• Envoi