{"product_id":"the-classical-school-the-turbulent-birth-of-economics-in-twenty-extraordinary-lives-1","title":"The Classical School: The Turbulent Birth of Economics in Twenty Extraordinary Lives","description":"Review      Full of well-lived lives and grisly endings ... Williams relishes these little details and keeps the history lesson tearing along at pace ... Consume it as a whole or dip in and out. Either way, he leaves you a lot wiser. -- Philip Aldrick ― TimesPithy and amusing ... with a light and irreverent touch -- Christopher Silvester ― SpearsWilliams is an entertaining writer, enlightening his readers without boring them and using biographical detail not just to enliven the subject but to show how life experiences can determine attitudes. He has a knack for grabbing your attention ― Money WeekRiveting ... Very well written -- Rosemary Connell ― Society of Professional Economistsa crash course in the lives and ideas of thinkers-from Marx to Malthus-that everyone has heard of and a lively briefing on people, like Sismondi and Naoroji, that deserve to be better known. Succinct, critical, and entertaining -- Richard Davies author of ― Extreme Economiesshort, punchy, and very well-written ... a terrific read. -- Kevin O'Rourke author of ― A Short History of BrexitThese lively essays ... are consistently insightful and manage to make complex ideas clear. -- David Miles author of ― MacroeconomicsThis sometimes eclectic collection of economists gives a sense of the turbulent start of the economics field. Written with a journalist's attention to colour and quotations, The Classical School is an entertaining read. -- Linda Yueh ― EconomistWilliams could hardly be more qualified as a guide to these figures of the Classical School ― The Oldie      Product Description      Opinions vary about who really counts as a classical economist: Marx thought it was everyone up to Ricardo. Keynes thought it was everyone up to Keynes. But there's a general agreement about who belongs to the heroic early phase of the discipline. Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Malthus, Mill, Marx: scarcely a day goes by without their names being publicly invoked to celebrate or criticise the state of the world or the actions of governments.Few of us, though, have read their works. Fewer still realise that the economies that many of them were analysing were quite unlike our modern one, or the extent to which they were indebted to one another. So join the Economist's Callum Williams to join the dots. See how the modern edifice of economics was built, brick by brick, from their ideas and quarrels. And find out which parts stand the test of time.      Book Description      A breezy, bracingly irreverent introduction to the founders of economics - how they lived, what they thought, what they got wrong and which of their ideas we still need      About the Author      Callum Williams is senior economics writer for the Economist. Examining the rationale behind economic and political developments from Brexit to Jeremy Corbyn's policy statements has allowed him to witness the ghosts of the classical economists being invoked in all sorts of doubtful ways.Follow @econcallum on Twitter","brand":"The Economist Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40151363059797,"sku":"9781788161817N","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/124c3a2e-a988-4da2-ae88-1b6b4e490421.jpg?v=1657012234","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/the-classical-school-the-turbulent-birth-of-economics-in-twenty-extraordinary-lives-1","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}