A Very Short Introduction

Economics

How can two people’s lives in two parts of the world become so different, and remain so different? Why are some lives – and some futures – so wealthy, and others so deprived?

These apparently simple questions form the starting point to Partha Dasgupta’s Very Short Introduction to Economics: an up-to-date, intelligible, introduction to how economics uncovers and explains the processes that shape our lives. Combining examples from everyday life with a global approach that considers not just the economics of the West but also the economics of the world’s 2.4 billion rural poor, Dasgupta reveals how economics can give us deep insight into some of life’s most formidable problems, and offer solutions to those problems too.

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Partha Dasgupta is the Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, Fellow of the Royal Society, Member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Sciences, and Past President of the Royal Economic Society and the Eruopean Economic Association.

• ISBN: 978-019-285345-5
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Author: Partha Dasgupta
• Language: English

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