Trillion Dollar Economists by Robert Litan

Trillion Dollar Economists by Robert Litan

A detailed look at how economists shaped the world, and how the legacy continues Trillion Dollar Economists explores the prize-winning ideas that have shaped business decisions, business models, and government policies, expanding the popular idea of the economist's role from one of forecaster to one of innovator. Written by the former Director of Economic Research at Bloomberg Government, the Kauffman Foundation and the Brookings Institution, this book describes the ways in which economists have helped shape the world in some cases, dramatically enough to be recognized with a Nobel Prize or Clark Medal. Detailed discussion of how economists think about the world and the pace of future innovation leads to an examination of the role, importance, and limits of the market, and economists' contributions to business and policy in the past, present, and future. Few economists actually forecast the economy's performance. Instead, the bulk of the profession is concerned with how markets work, and how they can be made more efficient and productive to generate the things people want to buy for a better life. Full of interviews with leading economists and industry leaders, Trillion Dollar Economists showcases the innovations that have built modern business and policy. Readers will: * Review the basics of economics and the innovation of economists, including market failures and the macro-micro distinction * Discover the true power of economic ideas when used directly in business, as exemplified by Priceline and Google * Learn how economists contributed to policy platforms in transportation, energy, telecommunication, and more * Explore the future of economics in business applications, and the policy ideas, challenges, and implications Economists have helped firms launch new businesses, established new ways of making money, and shaped government policy to create new opportunities and a new landscape on which businesses compete. Trillion Dollar Economists provides a comprehensive exploration of these contributions, and a detailed look at innovation to come.

In his new book Trillion Dollar Economists, Robert Litan of the Brookings Institution argues that the economics profession has created trillions of dollars of income and wealth for the United States and the rest of the worldThat sounds like a nice contribution for a relatively small profession, especially if we do some simple arithmetic The fun thing about Litan s book is that he details many clever little ideas about how to run businesses or to manage the economy better. They lie in the realm of optimal pricing and marketing mechanisms, regulation of monopolies, natural-resource management, public-goods provision, and finance. Robert J. Shiller, 2013 Nobel laureate and Yale Professor of Economics

ROBERT LITAN has spent four decades publishing over 25 books and more than 200 articles about the U.S. economy and has directed economic research at some of the nation s leading research organizations in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors: the Brookings Institution, the Kauffman Foundation, and Bloomberg Government. He is currently a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, Of Counsel to the law firm of Korein Tillery (St. Louis and Chicago), and Chief Economist of Main Street Genome, a new company providing analytics to small companies. He is also a regular contributor to Wall Street Journal s Think Tank blog.

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ISBN 13	9781118781807
ISBN 10	1118781805
Title	Trillion Dollar Economists
Author	Robert Litan
Series	Bloomberg
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	John Wiley & Sons Inc
Year published	2014-09-22
Number of pages	400
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