Langbeschreibung
Over the course of the twentieth century, professional economists have become a feature in the policymaking process and have slowly changed the way we think about work, governance, and economic justice. However, they have also been a frustrating, paradoxical, and in recent years, controversial fixture in American public life.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction 1. The Problems at Hand 2. The Money Question 3. On Firm Ground 4. Economists and the Search for Industrial Order 5. Obscured Irrelevance: Economists in the Boom Years 6. Stuck in the Middle: Economists, Agricultural Reform, and Crisis Conclusion. The Legacy of the Professional Economist