Robert Eisner – författare

In Travelers to an Antique Land, Robert Eisner embarks on an engaging journey through centuries of fascination with Greece—a land alternately imagined, idealized, and rediscovered by visitors from across the world. Blending historical narrative and literary analysis, Eisner charts the evolution of travel to Greece, focusing on how successive generations of writers, scholars, and adventurers experienced and depicted its landscapes, people, and ruins.From antiquarian explorers and Grand Tourists to modern-day expatriates and bohemian wanderers, the book brings to life the shifting motivations, expectations, and emotions that have propelled travelers across Aegean shores and up mythic mountains. Drawing on diaries, guidebooks, novels, and personal memoirs, Eisner weaves a rich tapestry that connects the spiritual and sensory allure of Greece—with its ancient ruins, radiant light, and enduring myths—to the cultural baggage and personal longings of those who journeyed there.Foregrounding English-language writers but attentive to broader European currents, Travelers to an Antique Land explores topics such as the cult of classical antiquity, the search for “authentic” ruins, the Romantic allure of the wild Greek landscape, and the tensions between imagined and real encounter. Eisner thoughtfully considers what travelers sought, what they found, and what they wrote home about—probing the boundary between self and other, memory and myth.Travelers to an Antique Land will delight readers interested in travel literature, classical reception, and the abiding magic of Greece.

Eisner argues that the federal deficit as currently measured is inaccurate and misleading. When inflation is properly accounted for, he points out, a dramatically different picture of the deficit occurs. In light of these new deficit figures, Eisner challenges current eco nomic theory and interpretations of our recent past. He finds that the deficit has not been as large as recently measured and that efforts to reduce the deficit may do more harm than good. This book will spark serious debate among economists and policymakers. The clarity of its arguments and strength of its evidence are convincing. Strongly recommended for academic and large public libraries. Richard C. Schim ing, Economics Dept., Mankato State Univ., Minn.Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Robert Eisner has made a seminal contribution to the development of macroeconomic analysis in the latter half of the twentieth century. This carefully edited selection of his essays traces the development of economic thought in the wake of the Keynesian revolution and offers a critique of the neoclassical contribution to economic analysis and major macroeconomic policy issues.Professor Eisner is fundamentally concerned with the determinants of employment and growth in a market economy. In this book, he provides a rigorous analysis of the permanent income hypothesis, the multiplier, interest rates, the liquidity trap, consumption and saving, depreciation, unemployment and growth models. He goes on to examine fiscal and monetary policy and the measurement and effects of budget deficits over the post-war period, challenging the view that budget deficits should necessarily be avoided. Professor Eisner also offers new measures of saving, investment and national income and product, which provide new insights into the economic factors affecting current welfare and future growth. Finally, he discusses the importance of full employment and criticises the idea that there is a natural rate of unemployment.

This carefully edited selection of Robert Eisner's essays ties together his authoritative contributions to economic analysis and macroeconomic policy issues, particularly business, investment and tax policy. He offers a trenchant analysis of the fundamental issues of employment, investment and economic welfare in an advanced market economy, offering a challenge to the conventional wisdom on macroeconomic theory and policy.Professor Eisner first examines the determinants of business investment and criticizes neoclassical theories on investment. He goes on to assess the role of tax incentives in investment and finds that tax policy is a flawed way of attempting to encourage investment. He also analyses national income accounting and offers some alternative measurements for calculating national product. Professor Eisner then examines the implications of war for the economy and explores the macroeconomic consequences of disarmament including its possible effects on unemployment. Lastly, he addresses the conflict between economic policy and principle; particularly concerning the environment, insurance and the theory of choice, academic freedom and the elderly.