Arnold Kling Ph.D.'s Books

Learning Economics

By: Arnold Kling Ph.D.

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This book introduces the subject of economics using clear prose, rather than the graphs and equations common in many textbooks. The focus is on contemporary issues, particularly technological innovation and growth. To browse through the book or read some endorsements of the book, click here. The link below only gives you a brief excerpt.

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1462834205

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Crisis of Abundance

Rethinking how We Pay for Health Care

By: Arnold S. Kling

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Crisis of Abundance

Rethinking how We Pay for Health Care

By: Arnold S. Kling

America's health care troubles largely stem from a great success: modern medicine can do much more today than in the past. So what's the trouble? How to pay for it. In easily comprehensible prose, MIT-trained economist Arnold Kling explains better ways of financing health care for the poor, workers, the disabled, and the elderly. Kling predicts relying less on government and more on private savings would improve health outcomes. A must-read for health care reformers.

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Cato Institute

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1930865899

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9781930865891

From Poverty to Prosperity

Intangible Assets, Hidden Liabilities and the Lasting Triumph Over Scarcity

By: Arnold S. Kling,Nick Schulz

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From Poverty to Prosperity

Intangible Assets, Hidden Liabilities and the Lasting Triumph Over Scarcity

By: Arnold S. Kling,Nick Schulz

Conventional economists lean on the comfortable precision of mathematical abstraction and ignore the messy complexity of the real world. This work tells a big-picture story about the differences in the standard of living across time and across borders.

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Encounter Books

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1594032505

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Invisible Wealth

The Hidden Story of How Markets Work

By: Arnold Kling,Nick Schulz

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Invisible Wealth

The Hidden Story of How Markets Work

By: Arnold Kling,Nick Schulz

The discipline of economics is not what it used to be. Over the last few decades, economists have begun a revolutionary reorientation in how we look at the world, and this has major implications for politics, policy, and our everyday lives. For years, conventional economists told us an incomplete story that leaned on the comfortable precision of mathematical abstraction and ignored the complexity of the real world with all of its uncertainties, unknowns, and ongoing evolution. What economists left out of the story were the positive forces of creativity, innovation, and advancing technology that propel economies forward. Economists did not describe the dynamic process that leads to new pharmaceuticals, cell phones, Web-based information services—forces that fundamentally alter how we live our daily lives. Economists also left out the negative forces that can hold economies back: bad governance, counterproductive social practices, and patterns of taking wealth instead of creating it. They took for granted secure property rights, honest public servants, and the willingness of individuals to experiment and adapt to novelty. From Poverty to Prosperity is not Tipping Point or Freakonomics. Those books offer a smorgasbord of fascinating findings in economics and sociology, but the findings are only loosely related. From Poverty to Prosperity on the other hand, tells a big picture story about the huge differences in the standard of living across time and across borders. It is a story that draws on research from the world’s most important economists and eschews the conventional wisdom for a new, more inclusive, vision of the world and how it works.

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1594035423

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The Three Languages of Politics

Talking Across the Political Divides

By: Arnold Kling

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The Three Languages of Politics

Talking Across the Political Divides

By: Arnold Kling

When it was first released in 2013, Arnold Kling’s The Three Languages of Politics was a prescient exploration of political communication, detailing the “three tribal coalitions” that make up America’s political landscape. Progressives, conservatives, and libertarians, he argued, are “like tribes speaking different languages. As a result, political discussions do not lead to agreement. Instead, most political commentary serves to increase polarization.” Now available as a newly revised and expanded edition, Kling’s book could not be any more timely, as Americans—whether as media pundits or conversing at a party—talk past one another with even greater volume, heat, and disinterest in contrary opinions. The Three Languages of Politics is an accessible, precise, and insightful guide to how to lower the barriers coarsening our politics. This is not a book about one ideology over another. Instead, it is a book about how we communicate issues and our ideologies, and how language intended to persuade instead divides. Kling offers a way to see through our rhetorical blinders so that we can incorporate new perspectives, nuances, and thinking into the important issues we must together share and resolve.

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Cato Institute

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1944424474

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9781944424473

Statistics, Econometrics and Forecasting

By: Arnold Zellner

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Statistics, Econometrics and Forecasting

By: Arnold Zellner

Based on two lectures presented as part of The Stone Lectures in Economics series, Arnold Zellner describes the structural econometric time series analysis (SEMTSA) approach to statistical and econometric modeling. Developed by Zellner and Franz Palm, the SEMTSA approach produces an understanding of the relationship of univariate and multivariate time series forecasting models and dynamic, time series structural econometric models. As scientists and decision-makers in industry and government world-wide adopt the Bayesian approach to scientific inference, decision-making and forecasting, Zellner offers an in-depth analysis and appreciation of this important paradigm shift. Finally Zellner discusses the alternative approaches to model building and looks at how the use and development of the SEMTSA approach has led to the production of a Marshallian Macroeconomic Model that will prove valuable to many. Written by one of the foremost practitioners of econometrics, this book will have wide academic and professional appeal.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521540445

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9780521540445

Specialization and Trade

A Re-introduction to Economics

By: Arnold Kling

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Specialization and Trade

A Re-introduction to Economics

By: Arnold Kling

Since the end of the second World War, economics professors and classroom textbooks have been telling us that the economy is one big machine that can be effectively regulated by economic experts and tuned by government agencies like the Federal Reserve Board. It turns out they were wrong. Their equations do not hold up. Their policies have not produced the promised results. Their interpretations of economic events -- as reported by the media -- are often of-the-mark, and unconvincing. A key alternative to the one big machine mindset is to recognize how the economy is instead an evolutionary system, with constantly-changing patterns of specialization and trade. This book introduces you to this powerful approach for understanding economic performance. By putting specialization at the center of economic analysis, Arnold Kling provides you with new ways to think about issues like sustainability, financial instability, job creation, and inflation. In short, he removes stiff, narrow perspectives and instead provides a full, multi-dimensional perspective on a continually evolving system.

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1944424164

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Learning Economics

Learning Economics

Crisis of Abundance

Crisis of Abundance

From Poverty to Prosperity

From Poverty to Prosperity

Invisible Wealth

Invisible Wealth

The Three Languages of Politics

The Three Languages of Politics

Statistics, Econometrics and Forecasting

Statistics, Econometrics and Forecasting

Specialization and Trade

Specialization and Trade

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