【大纪元2025年01月02日讯】(大纪元记者正玉澳洲编译报导)周四(1月2日), 2024年备受经济学家好评并强烈推荐的18本好书排行版揭晓。
其中书名为《最简短的经济学历史》(The Shortest History of Economics)受到三位经济学家——巴萨内斯(David Bassanese)、布洛克瑟姆(Paul Bloxham)、卡恩斯(Jonathan Kearns)的强烈推荐。
据《金融评论报》报导,《最简短的经济学历史》的作者是雷伊(Andrew Leigh), 现任联邦竞争、慈善及财政部助理部长及就业部助理部长。他曾担任澳洲国立大学经济系教授。
这本书通过经济学概念探讨了跨越几个世纪与大洲的历史、大富翁游戏的起源,讨论了犁的发明如何加深性别不平等,以及疾病如何塑造殖民主义。
卡恩斯曾为澳洲储备银行官员,现任Challenger的首席经济师。他说:“雷伊的这本书带我们开启了一个有趣的旅程,它向我们展示如何透过经济学的角度来观察人类历史和我们当前的生活。”
此外,排行榜上的其它17本好书还包括:
Free to Choose by Milton Friedman
The World in 2050: How to think about the future by Hamish McRae
Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari
War and Wheat by Dennis Voznesenski
Economics in America by Angus Deaton
Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy by Thomas Sowell
World Order by Henry Kissinger
Manias, Panics and Crashes by Charles P Kindleberger
Slow Horses by Mick Herron
Good as Gold: How to Unleash the Power of Sound Money by Judy Shelton
Incentives: Motivation and the Economics of Information by Donald E. Campbell
Superpower: Australia’s Low-Carbon Opportunity by Ross Garnaut
Why Australia Prospered by Ian W. McLean
Daylight Robbery: How Tax Shaped Our Past and Will Change Our Future by Dominic Frisby
The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
Making Sense of Chaos by J Doyne Farmer
The Rise of Central Banks: State Power in Financial Capitalism by Leon Wansleben
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