Econopower - by Mark Skousen (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

EconoPower will provide you with a firm understanding of the influence of modern economics and how it can be used to improve the world we live in. It offers practical advice on numerous personal financial matters--earning, saving, investing, and retiring--based on the breakthrough contributions of behavioral economists. And it looks at how economists are working successfully on issues such as public education, crime, and global warming. EconoPower also examines how a new economic philosophy may dominate the new millennium.

From the Back Cover

PRAISE FOR ECONOPOWER

"Imagine, economists solving the world's problems! Skousen's breakthrough book bring us up to date on this fascinating development. Visionary economists are showing us creative ways to reduce world poverty, eliminate traffic jams, solve the health care crisis, save more and invest better, make business and labor more productive, improve education, cut crime, and even reduce tensions and establish peace in war-torn regions of the world. We've used some of these techniques at Whole Foods, and they work. Read this book and discover a new brand of economics!"
-- JOHN MACKEY, CEO, Whole Foods Market

"Mark Skousen is an able, imaginative, and energetic economist."
-- MILTON FRIEDMAN, Nobel laureate in economics

"Economics is experiencing a golden age of discovery. Empirical economists are charting the economy and society with a wealth of detailed applied results that truly bear comparison with other epochs of discovery in other sciences."
-- DIANE COYLE, author of The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters

"Mark Skousen is one of the best financial economists I know. His books on free-market economics and investing can't be beat. Like me, he's upbeat and optimistic about supply'side/Austrian economics, and has been instrumental in educating students, business people, government leaders, and fellow economists on sound economics and finance. Highly recommended."
-- LARRY KUDLOW, CNBC's Kudlow & Company

"Skousen does a wonderful job explaining how a new generation of economists is making a difference. Economics is no longer the dismal science, but an upbeat, universal science fulfilling ever-expanding needs--helping people save and invest better, bringing millions out of poverty, alleviating traffic congestion, making companies more profitable, and helping countries achieve their own economic miracles."
-- ARTHUR B. LAFFER, President, Laffer Associates

Review Quotes

"... offers practical advice on personal finance matters, earning, saving, investing and retiring, based on the breakthrough contributions of behavioural economics." (Pensions World, July 2008)

"... you can pick up nuggets of insight into behavioural economics, game theory, the flat tax debate, auction theory (particularly good)...." (Financial World, June 2008)

"... check out Mark Skousen's EconoPower.... The book shows how economics has come to influence every aspect of our life." (Sunday Times Ireland Edition, December 18th 2008)

About the Author

Mark Skousen is a professional economist, investment expert, university professor, and author of over twenty-five books. He has taught economics at Columbia Business School, Columbia University, and Rollins College. Currently, he holds the Benjamin Franklin Chair of Management at Grantham University. In honor of his work in economics, finance, and management, Grantham University renamed its business school, "The Mark Skousen School of Business." Since 1980, Skousen has been Editor in Chief of Forecasts & Strategies, a popular award-winning investment newsletter (www.markskousen.com). He is also Editor of The Worldly Philosophers Club, a weekly e-letter (www.worldlyphilosophers.com). Skousen is a former analyst for the CIA, a columnist for Forbes magazine, and past president of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) in New York. He earned his PhD in economics from George Washington University.