The Street Economist: 15 Economics Lessons Everyone Should Know - Axel Kaiser
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The Street Economist: 15 Economics Lessons Everyone Should Know
Axel Kaiser
Synopsis "The Street Economist: 15 Economics Lessons Everyone Should Know"
"If you read only one book on economics in your life, it should be Alex Kaiser's. Beautifully written and elegantly argued, it will change your mind, and maybe your life, certainly your politics. Kaiser takes you out of the lecture room and into the street, where the economy actually happens."--Deirdre McCloskey. In The Street Economist, Axel Kaiser offers basic lessons in economics that should be part of everyone's education. It is an effort to correct the mistake of " ivory tower economists" who conceive this science as an oracular discipline that can only be properly discussed by experts. Crucial concepts such as prices, capital, demand and supply, labor, inflation, value, and innovation, among others, are explained in simple and direct language in order to make them understandable to the general public. The Street Economist has been a best-selling book in almost all countries where it has been published. In Chile, it sold more than 50.000 copies in a year, and it is still the most sold nonfiction book after a year of its publication. It is now being published in 5 different languages.
Axel Kaiser es abogado chilenoalemán, doctor en filosofía por la Universidad de Heidelberg, director de la cátedra Friedrich von Hayek de la Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez y senior fellow del Atlas Center para América Latina, con sede en Miami.
Ha sido profesor visitante en la Hoover Institution de la Universidad de Stanford y es cofundador y presidente de la Fundación para el Progreso, uno de los centros de estudios liberales más influyentes de Hispanoamérica.
Es columnista de los diarios Financiero y El Mercurio y sus opiniones han sido publicadas en medios internacionales como The Wall Street Journal, Forbes.com, The Washington Post, La Nación de Argentina, El País de Uruguay y El Mundo, entre otros.
Asimismo, es conferenciante internacional y autor de varios bestsellers. De su obra, en España se han editado títulos como La neoinquisición (Deusto, 2020), La tiranía de la igualdad (Deusto, 2017) o El engaño populista (Deusto, 2016).
