Invitation to economics : understanding argument and policy / Thomas Mayer.

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Main Author: Mayer, Thomas, 1927-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
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300 |a xv, 334 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 23 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
505 0 |a The subject of economics -- What economists do -- How well do they do it? -- Some infrastructure -- Beguiling words -- Important economic ideas: often misunderstood -- Economic theory and policy -- The Crown Jewel of economics: the price mechanism -- Risk taking and incentives -- Looking around corners -- Natural resources and environmental economics -- Looking at data -- Empirical economics -- Some simple (?) ways of presenting data: percentages, figures, and graphs -- Samples and their problems -- Regressions: the workhorse of empirical economics -- The workhorse in action: some examples of empirical economics. 
650 0 |a Economics. 
650 0 |a Economists. 
650 0 |a Economic policy. 
650 0 |a Reasoning. 
650 0 |a Critical thinking. 
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