Economists

What can the ideas of history's greatest economists tell us about the most important issues of our time?

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Great Economists written and read by Linda Yueh.

Around the globe, economists affect markets by saying what markets are doing, what they should do, and what they will do. Increasingly, experimental economists are even designing real-world markets. But, despite these facts, economists are still largely thought of as scientists who merely observe markets from the outside, like astronomers look at the stars. Do Economists Make Markets? boldly challenges this view.

Probably no region’s economists have had greater public visibility or greater impact on regional and …