Archive for Paul Heyne
Foundations of Economics: Beginner’s Companion by Yanis Varoufakis
Routledge • 1998 • 396 pages • $100.00 cloth; $32.99 paperback This is an angry book. The administration of the University of Sydney, Australia, where Varoufakis is a senior lecturer in economics, did something in 1997 that “with a stroke of brilliance destroyed the atmosphere of collegiality and public spiritedness” that had previously characterized efforts [...]
1Jan2000 | Paul Heyne | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Paradox of Progress: Can Americans Regain Their Confidence in a Prosperous Future? by Richard B. McKenzie
Oxford University Press • 1997 • ix + 244 pages • $27.50 Paul Heyne teaches economics at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is the author of The Economic Way of Thinking (Prentice-Hall, eighth edition, 1997). Why do so many Americans today believe that the prosperity previous generations have enjoyed will not be available to [...]
1Apr1998 | Paul Heyne | 0 comments | Continued-
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