The War on Prices: How Popular Misconceptions About Inflation, Prices, and Value Create Bad Policy - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1952223865 ISBN 13: 9781952223860

Casa editrice: Cato Inst, 2024

Riassunto

Was inflation’s recent spike exacerbated by corporate greed? Do rent controls really help the needy? Are U.S. health care prices set in a Wild West marketplace? Do women get paid less than men for the same work, and do they pay more than men for the same products? The War on Prices is an eye-opening book that answers all these burning questions and more, as top economists debunk popular misconceptions about inflation, prices, and value.

Market prices are under siege. The war on prices is waged most obviously with damaging government price controls and the harmful effects of central bank monetary mismanagement, as we saw with the recent inflation. Yet these bad policies are propped up by widespread, misguided public beliefs about the causes of inflation, the effects of price controls, and the inherent morality of market prices.

Breaking down these complex issues into three distinct sections?inflation, price controls, and value?this book both sheds light on long-standing contentions and brings economic theory and evidence to bear in today’s most contentious debates. Threaded through the book is a revealing truth: too many of us misunderstand the origin, role, and worth of market prices in our economy. The old insult goes that “economists know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” The War on Prices shows that good economists?and soon, you?can appreciate the value of unshackled market prices in delivering prosperity.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Ryan A. Bourne occupies the R. Evan Scharf Chair for the Public Understanding of Economics at the Cato Institute and is a columnist for The Times (UK). He has written on a variety of economic issues, including fiscal policy, inequality, price and wage controls, and infrastructure spending. Bourne is the author of Economics in One Virus: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning through COVID-19 (2021) and editor of The War on Prices: How Popular Misconceptions about Inflation, Prices, and Value Create Bad Policy (2024). He has extensive broadcast and print media experience and has appeared on CNN, CNBC, BBC News, Sky News, and Fox Business Network.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Cato Inst
• Data di pubblicazione: 2024
• ISBN 10: 1952223865
• ISBN 13: 9781952223860
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 350
• Redattore: Bourne Ryan A.