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082 _a330
_bCoo
100 1 _aCooper, George,
245 1 0 _aMoney, blood and revolution :
_bhow Darwin and the doctor of King Charles I could turn economics into a science /
260 _aGreat Britain
_bHarriman House
_c2014
300 _axvii, 204 p.
_billustrations ;
_c25 cm
520 _a"Economics is a broken science, living in a kind of Alice in Wonderland state believing in multiple, inconsistent, things at the same time. Prior to the financial crisis, mainstream economics argued simultaneously for small government on taxation, regulation and spending, but big government on monetary policy. After the financial crisis, economics is now arguing for more government spending and for less government spending. The premise of this book is that the internal inconsistencies between economic theories -- the apparently unresolvable debates between leading economists and the incoherent policies of our governments -- are symptomatic of economics being in a crisis. Specifically a scientific crisis. The good news is that, thanks to the work of scientist and philosopher Thomas Kuhn, we know what needs to be done to fix a scientific crisis. Moreover, there are two scientists in particular whose ideas could show how to do this for economics: Charles Darwin, the man who discovered evolution, and William Harvey, doctor to King Charles I and the first man to understand blood flow and the workings of the human heart.: --P[4] of cover.
650 0 _aEconomics.
650 0 _aScience.
942 _cBK