Walker Evans, Simple Secrets: Photographs from the Collection of Marian and Benjamin A. Hill

Fleurov, Ellen

ISBN 10: 0465081436 / ISBN 13: 9780465081431

Published by High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 1997

About this Item

Hardcover. Unpaginated. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. Neat ink gift inscription on half title, otherwise internally fine.

Seller Inventory # 21596

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Walker Evans, Simple Secrets: Photographs from the Collection of Marian and Benjamin A. Hill
• Publisher: High Museum of Art, Atlanta
• Publication Date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0465081436
• ISBN 13: 9780465081431
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography

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Synopsis

The application of economics to major contemporary real world problems--housing, medical care, discrimination, the economic development of nations--is the theme of this new book that tackles these and other issues head on in plain language, as distinguished from the usual jargon of economists. It examines economic policies not simply in terms of their immediate effects but also in terms of their later repercussions, which are often very different and longer lasting. The interplay of politics with economics is another theme of Applied Economics, whose examples are drawn from experiences around the world, showing how similar incentives and constraints tend to produce similar outcomes among very disparate peoples and cultures.

About the Author

Thomas Sowell has taught economics at a number of colleges and universities, including Cornell, University of California Los Angeles, and Amherst. He has published both scholarly and popular articles and books on economics, and is currently a scholar in residence at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.