FILTHY LUCRE：ECONOMICS FOR PEOPLE WHO HATE CAPITALISM
Book ID/图书代码： 06002007B17109
English Summary/英文概要： Economists are usually right wing, they assume that everyone is self-interested and amoral, and they are almost always cheerleaders for the market economy. As a result, most people who do not already share these beliefs ignore everything that economists have to say. This is a problem. Even among sophisticated practitioners, economics is a field in which people are unusually prone to fallacies. Among those who know nothing at all about the subject—a group that includes the average taxpayer and consumer, as well as most journalists, political activists, and politicians—almost every widely held belief is false. The level of economic illiteracy is stunning.
At the same time, the average person has a great thirst for popular, accessible writing on economics—witness the astounding success of Freakonomics and The Undercover Economist. People are starting to realize that the “dismal science” need not be so dismal.
In Filthy Lucre, Joseph Heath, co-author of the international bestseller The Rebel Sell: Why the Culture Can’t Be Jammed, demonstrates that economics provides crucial lessons that anyone with a concern over social justice, or with a desire to build a better society, must learn. First dissecting six favorite economic fallacies of the right—the private sector is not more efficient than government, taxes can never be too high, and globalization and the myth of international competitiveness among them—Heath then skewers the six favorite economic fallacies of the left—the wet firecracker that is worker-self ownership, a postmortem on communism, and why profit is not evil. In the end, no sacred cow is left standing.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在人们眼中，经济学家的论调通常更倾向于右翼：他们不仅声称人人皆为利往且将道德摒弃于旁；更是自始至终不遗余力地站在市场经济一边，为其摇旗呐喊。
是故，这造成了大多数持不同观点的人们，往往会对经济学家所抛出的观点嗤之以鼻，并将其全盘否定。
这有失公允。
因为，在经济生活当中，即便是摸爬滚打了多年的资深人士，也难免会受到种种误区的蒙蔽而马失前蹄；老手尚且如此，更何况那些一窍不通的外行人？从普通的纳税人和消费者，到绝大多数的新闻工作者、再到政治活动家乃至是政客，几乎所有约定俗成被我们奉为圭臬的观念，事实上都是漏洞百出。
所以，人们对于经济的无知，已经到了怵目惊心的地步。
与此同时，从大众中间又传达出了另外一种声音；在《魔鬼经济学》(Freakonomics)及《卧底经济学》(The Undercover Economist)相继走俏并大获成功之后，人们对于通俗易懂、喜闻乐见的经济类读物，开始表现出了迫切的关注与需求。因为大家开始意识到，作为一门传统概念中的“枯燥学科”，经济学完全可以摆脱以往的阳春白雪与曲高寡合。
《不义之财》的作者约瑟夫.希斯目前正于著名学府多伦多大学任教，而著名的国际畅销书《反叛的兜售：为什么不能堵塞文化》(The Rebel Sell: Why the Culture Can’t Be Jammed)正是出自他的手笔.
在文中，希斯推陈出新，从非经济学专家的角度出发，中肯地为广大读者答疑解惑、正本清源；在作到言辞犀利、一针见血的同时，亦有条不紊地剖析了复杂的经济论点，成功拉近了与广大读者间的距离。
所以，本书真的可谓是娱乐与学术兼具、尖锐和幽默并存，即便是对于经济学相对陌生的读者，也同样能够作到轻松阅读。
(AW)
Awards/获奖情况：PRAISE FOR THE REBEL SELL
“An intriguing examination of personal freedom within the inevitabilities of a market economy.” —Kirkus Reviews
“An incisive and witty indictment of consumer trends.” —BusinessWeek
“Incisive and inciting.”— LA Weekly
“With sharp humor, make[s] a solid case for consumerism being motivated by competitiveness rather than conformity.” —Publishers Weekly
“The Rebel Sell is a good joust against the trendiness of the received ideas of the left, an etiology of its fixations, and a casebook of the conformity that has always been at the heart of ideological non-conformism . . . [Heath and Potter] are the genuine article: intellectual martyrs fighting a good fight.” —Literary Review of Canada
“This is controversial stuff . . . a thought-provoking look at the effectiveness of ‘sticking it to the Man’ . . . recommended reading for anyone with an interest in social justice and the evolution of economics.” —Calgary Herald
“Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter argue convincingly—and just snidely enough—that while the counterculture purports to be a force against capitalism, it’s more like oxygen feeding the fires of consumption.” —eye Weekly
About the Author/作者介绍： Joseph Heath is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of three previous books: The Rebel Sell: Why the Culture Can’t Be Jammed (with Andrew Potter); Communicative Action and Rational Choice, which won the Canadian Philosophical Association Book Prize for 2003; and The Efficient Society, a Maclean’s and Globe and Mail bestseller selected by the Globe as one of the best books of 2001. He writes a monthly column for the journal Policy Options and is a frequent contributor to The Montreal Gazette.
Format:HARDCOVER
Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)
Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)
Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：
原文第一章内容：暂无
手稿：暂无
大纲：暂无