Advice and Dissent by Alan S Blinder

Advice and Dissent by Alan S Blinder

A bestselling economist tells us what both politicians and economists must learn to fix America's failing economic policies

American economic policy ranks as something between bad and disgraceful. As leading economist Alan S. Blinder argues, a crucial cultural divide separates economic and political civilizations. Economists and politicians often talk -- and act -- at cross purposes: politicians typically seek economists' "advice" only to support preconceived notions, not to learn what economists actually know or believe. Politicians naturally worry about keeping constituents happy and winning elections. Some are devoted to an ideology. Economists sometimes overlook the real human costs of what may seem to be the obviously best policy -- to a calculating machine. In Advice and Dissent, Blinder shows how both sides can shrink the yawning gap between good politics and good economics and encourage the hardheaded but softhearted policies our country so desperately needs.

ALAN S. BLINDER is Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1971. He also founded and directs Princeton's Center for Economic Policy Studies. He has served as vice chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and as a member of the president's Council of Economic Advisers. ELIE R. D. CANETTI is an economist for the International Monetary Fund. He previously worked at the World Bank and the United States Treasury. DAVID E. LEBOW is an economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. JEREMY B. RUDD is senior economist at the Council of Economic Advisers, Washington, D.C.

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ISBN 13	9780465094172
ISBN 10	0465094171
Title	Advice and Dissent
Author	Alan S Blinder
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
Year published	2018-03-27
Number of pages	368
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