Walter Lippmann Public Economist |
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Author:
| Goodwin, Craufurd D. |
ISBN: | 978-0-674-36813-2 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2014 |
Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $42.00 |
Book Description:
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Unemployment, monetary and fiscal policy, and the merits and drawbacks of free markets were a few of the issues the journalist and public philosopher Walter Lippmann explained to the public during the Depression, when professional economists skilled at translating concepts for a lay audience were not yet on the scene, as Craufurd Goodwin shows.
Unemployment, monetary and fiscal policy, and the merits and drawbacks of free markets were a few of the issues the journalist and public philosopher Walter Lippmann explained to the public during the Depression, when professional economists skilled at translating concepts for a lay audience were not yet on the scene, as Craufurd Goodwin shows.