David R Henderson is a Research Fellow with Stanford University's Hoover Institution and an Associate Professor of Economics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He was formerly a Senior Economist with the Presidents Council of Economic Advisers.
Editor Henderson (research fellow, Stanford U.; economics, Naval
Postgraduate School) has compiled 168 articles by leading
economists on issues that are of interest and relevance to people's
daily lives. The editor notes that the goal of this collection is
to illustrate how much economic analysis can shed light on the
issues that affect us as voters, consumers, employees, and as
people who care about the state of the world. The writing,
contributed by authors from a variety of schools of thought, is
accessible and defines where there is disagreement and where the
opinions of the experts converge. The volume also includes
biographies of 99 noted economists.
Reference & Research Book News,
May 2008
Henderson (Hoover Institution/Naval Postgraduate School) collected
and edited the work of more than 150 other economists for this new,
renamed edition of this encyclopedia. The contributor list includes
several Nobel Prize winners and former presidential economic
advisers. The goal of the more than 160 signed concept essays is to
"show how the analysis of economic topics can illuminate many
aspects of the average person's daily life." Topics include price
and rent controls, game theory, taxation, various schools of
economics, financial markets, inflation, unemployment, and free
trade. The entries are all signed, and many contain footnotes and
bibliographies with suggested further reading. Among the nearly 100
biographical sketches of prominent economists, 21 are new. To be
included in this section, an economist must have won the Nobel
Prize in economic science before 2004, been born before 1920 and
died before 1992. This encyclopedia was first published as The
Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics (1993)....For the price, this new
version is a worthwhile addition to any library. Summing Up:
Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and general readers.
Choice,
May 2008
Compiled, organized and edited by David R. Henderson (Research
Fellow with Stanford University's Hoover Institution and an
Associate Professor of Economics at the naval Postgraduate School
in Monterey, California), The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics is
a superbly presented introduction to economics comprised of more
than 160 entries which draw upon the experience and expertise of
some 152 contributors. . . .The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics
is substantively enhanced with the inclusion of succinct
biographies of leading and influential economists and a
comprehensive Index. . . .ideal and indispensable addition to
personal, professional, academic, and community library Economic
Studies reference collections.
The Midwest Book Review
December 2007
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