Diane Coyle: 3 books
The Economics of Enough
How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
The world's leading economies are facing not just one but many crises. The financial meltdown may not be over, climate change threatens major global disruption, economic inequality has reached extremes not seen for a century, and government and business are widely distrusted. At the same time, many...
The Soulful Science
What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters - Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
For many, Thomas Carlyle's put-down of economics as "the dismal science" rings true--especially in the aftermath of the crash of 2008. But Diane Coyle argues that economics today is more soulful than dismal, a more practical and human science than ever before. The Soulful Science describes...
GDP
A Brief but Affectionate History - Revised and expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Why did the size of the U.S. economy increase by 3 percent on one day in mid-2013—or Ghana's balloon by 60 percent overnight in 2010? Why did the U.K. financial industry show its fastest expansion ever at the end of 2008—just as the world’s financial system went into meltdown? And why was Greece’s...