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JOSEPH HEATH is an associate professor at the University of Toronto, where he teaches in the Department of Philosophy and the School of Public Policy and Governance.   He is the author of three previousbooks: Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture (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... Read More

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Economics Without Illusions
Debunking the Myths of Modern Capitalism
Written by Joseph Heath

Format: eBook, 352 pages
Publisher: Crown Business
On Sale: March 30, 2010
Price: $9.99

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Economics Without Illusions
Debunking the Myths of Modern Capitalism
Written by Joseph Heath

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Crown Business
On Sale: March 30, 2010
Price: $14.99

"Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man." -- Henry Hazlitt, author of Economics in One Lesson (1946)

Every day economic claims are used by the media or in conversation to support social and political positions. Those on the left tend to distrust economists, seeing them as... Read more >