In the Long Run We Are All Dead

The Lives and Deaths of Great Economists

Frank Bjoern

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Haus Publishing
14 November 2023

Biography: historical, political & military; Economic history

A fascinating and entertaining account of the lives of the most important economists of the past.

Until the late nineteenth century, economics couldn’t be studied at the university level; the field was the domain of well-educated figures whose radical curiosity drew them to a discipline that was little understood and often ridiculed. In the Long Run We’re All Dead tells the story of one of those figures in each of its thirteen chapters. Each of these extraordinary lives is worthy of fiction, and the manner of their deaths, oddly, often illuminates their work. Björn Frank shows us how these economists developed the theories for which they became famous and explains those ideas—utilitarianism, social costs, the endowment effect, and others—with reference to the lives of their creators in an engaging, irreverent, even comic style. Frank also takes daring leaps into speculation, considering how the principles of these long-gone economists might be applied to problems of today and of the future.

By: Frank Bjoern
Imprint: Haus Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 153mm,
ISBN: 9781913368579
ISBN 10: 1913368572
Pages: 172
Publication Date: 14 November 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Bjoern Frank is Professor of Economics at the University of Kassel, Germany. His recent publications include the 'economic trhiller', Money Clotting, published in 2017. Jamie Bulloch is a historian and has worked as a professional translator from German since 2001. His works include books by Paulus Hochgatterer and Alissa Walser.

Reviews for In the Long Run We Are All Dead: The Lives and Deaths of Great Economists

A good dozen elegant and entertaining miniatures. (...) Bjoern Frank uses a pointed, ironic pen and has a loving eye for bizarre or even tragi-comic details - CATHERINE NEWMARK, DEUTSCHLANDFUNK KULTUR; It's entertaining and enlightening NZZ STORY