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How Dead Ideas Still Walk among Us
Greenwood Publishing Group
October 2010
On Sale: October 3, 2010
216 pages
ISBN: 0691145822
EAN: 9780691145822
Hardcover
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"Killing vampires and werewolves is easy enough. But how
does one slay economic zombies--ideas that should have died
long ago but still shamble forward? Armed with nothing but
the truth, John Quiggin sets about dispatching these dead
ideas once and for all in this engaging book. Zombie
Economics should be required reading for those who would
dare reanimate the economic theories that brought us to the
edge of ruin."--Brad DeLong, University of California, Berkeley "Tempted to tangle with your libertarian uncle or your Wall
Street Journal bromide-spouting coworkers? If so, this book
will arm you to rebut the clever phrasemaking and slippery
reasoning that has allowed dead constructs like 'trickle
down economics' to soldier onward. Quiggin's clear, elegant
dissection of wrongheaded notions will appeal to both lay
readers and academic economists."--Yves Smith, author of
ECONned: How Unenlightened Self-Interest Undermined
Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism "Zombie Economics provides a unique and comprehensive
discussion of the ideas that failed during the recent
financial crisis. But the book contributes much more. Its
discussion of how macroeconomics developed, and the ideology
that has grown up around it, is every bit as important and
interesting."--Mark Thoma, University of Oregon "This is a terrific book. Quiggin is an engaging writer, and
the combination of quotations, history, theory, and hard
evidence makes the book quite a page-turner."--Andrew Leigh,
Australian National University
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