A History Of Professional Economists And Policymaking In The United States: Irrelevant Genius (Perspectives In Economic And Social History)

5 Obscured irrelevance: economists in the boom years -- False promise -- A new era with old dilemmas -- Defining the indefinable -- Amateurs and businessmen -- 6 Stuck in the middle: economists, agricultural reform, and crisis -- The state of agricultural economics -- Defining the problem -- A half-baked solution -- Pursuing the panacea -- Political stand-off -- Toward crisis -- Into depression -- Conclusion: the legacy of the professional economist -- Into the post-World War II period -- A need for nuance -- Index.

• • Author: Jonathan S. Franklin
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Mar 08, 2016
• • Number of Pages: 186 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1138913758
• • ISBN-13: 9781138913752