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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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978-1-529-30370-4 |
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23 |
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330 |
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BUT |
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Butler Tom Bowdon |
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50 Economics Classics |
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Your Shortcut to the most important ideas on capitalism,finance,and the global economy |
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Tom Butler Bowdon |
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English |
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London |
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Nicholas Brealey Publishing |
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2017 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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357 p. |
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Soft bound |
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12.8*19.7 cm |
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Introduction <br/><br/>1. Liaquat Ahamed - Lords of Finance (2009) <br/>Fixed ideas in economics can have disastrous results<br/> <br/>2. William Baumol - The Microtheory of Innovative Entrepreneurship (2010) <br/>Entrepreneurs are the engines of growth and must be valued<br/> <br/>3. Gary Becker - Human Capital (1964) <br/>The most important investment we ever make is in ourselves<br/> <br/>4. John Bogle - The Little Book of Common Sense Investing (2007) <br/>The most successful investing strategy is also the easiest<br/> <br/>5. Eric Brynjolfsson & Andrew McAfee - The Second Machine Age (2014)<br/>Technological revolutions must allow for the advance of everyone<br/> <br/>6. Ha-Joon Chang - 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism (2012)<br/>Many nations succeeded by bucking the rules of orthodox economics<br/> <br/>7. Diane Coyle - GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History (2014)<br/>How we measure economic output has consequences for people and nations<br/> <br/>8. Ronald Coase - The Firm, The Market and The Law (1990)<br/>Why firms exist; the role of transaction costs in economic life<br/> <br/>9. Peter Drucker - Innovation and Entrepreneurship (1985)<br/>Success comes from taking management and ideas seriously<br/> <br/>10. Niall Ferguson - The Ascent of Money (2008)<br/>Finance is not evil, it built the modern world<br/> <br/>11. Milton Friedman - Capitalism and Freedom (1962)<br/>Free markets, not government, protect the individual and ensure quality<br/> <br/>12. JK Galbraith - The Great Crash, 1929 (1954)<br/>It’s government’s job to stop speculative frenzies ruining the real economy<br/> <br/>13. Henry George - Progress and Poverty (1879)<br/>The best and fairest way to ensure opportunity is a tax on land<br/> <br/>14. Robert J Gordon - The Rise and Fall of American Growth (2016)<br/>Living standards keep rising, but the greatest gains have already happened<br/> <br/>15. Benjamin Graham - The Intelligent Investor (1949)<br/>We grow in wealth through long-term investing, not speculating<br/> <br/>16. Friedrich Hayek - The Use of Knowledge in Society (1945)<br/>Societies prosper when they give up planning and control, and allow decentralization of knowledge<br/> <br/>17. Albert O Hirschman - Exit, Voice and Loyalty (1970)<br/>Consumers have many options to get what they want<br/> <br/>18. Jane Jacobs - The Economy of Cities (1968)<br/>Cities have always been, and always will be, the drivers of wealth<br/> <br/>19. John Maynard Keynes - The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936)<br/>To achieve social goals like full employment, governments must actively manage the economy<br/> <br/>20. Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine (2008)<br/>‘Neoliberal’ economic programs have proved a disaster for many developing countries<br/> <br/>21. Paul Krugman - The Conscience of a Liberal (2007)<br/>The postwar consensus on how to grow an economy has been hijacked by ideology<br/> <br/>22. Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner - Freakonomics (2006)<br/>Economics is not a moral science, more an observation of how incentives work<br/> <br/>23. Michael Lewis - The Big Short (2011)<br/>Modern finance was meant to minimize risk, but it has only increased dangers<br/> <br/>24. Deirdre McCloskey - Bourgeois Equality (2016)<br/>The world became wealthy thanks to an idea: entrepreneurs and merchants are not so bad after all<br/> <br/>25. Thomas Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)<br/>The world’s finite resources can’t cope with an increasing population<br/> <br/>26. Alfred Marshall - Principles of Economics (1890)<br/>To understand people, watch their habits of earning, saving and investing<br/> <br/>27. Karl Marx - Capital (1867)<br/>The interests of labor and capital are perennially in conflict<br/> <br/>28. Hyman Minsky - Stabilizing An Unstable Economy (1986)<br/>Rather than creating equilibrium, capitalism is inherently unstable<br/> <br/>29. Ludwig Von Mises - Human Action (1940)<br/>Economics has laws which no person, society or government can escape<br/> <br/>30. Dambisa Moyo - Dead Aid (2010)<br/>Countries grow and get rich by creating industries, not by addiction to aid<br/> <br/>31. Elinor Ostrom - Governing the Commons (1990)<br/>To stay healthy, common resources like air, water and forests need to be managed in novel ways.<br/> <br/>32. Thomas Piketty - Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2014)<br/>The scales of wealth are tipping towards capital; if inequality widens there will be social upheaval<br/> <br/>33. Karl Polanyi - The Great Transformation (1944)<br/>Markets must serve society, not the other way around<br/> <br/>34. Michael E Porter - The Competitive Advantage of Nations (1990)<br/>Competition and industry clusters make a rich nation<br/> <br/>35. Ayn Rand - Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966)<br/>Capitalism is the most moral form of political economy<br/> <br/>36. David Ricardo - Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817)<br/>A free-trading world will see each nation fulfil its potential<br/> <br/>37. Dani Rodrik - The Globalization Paradox (2011)<br/>Globalization agendas are often floored by national politics<br/> <br/>38. Paul Samuelson - Economics (1948)<br/>A combination of classical and Keynesian ideas creates the best-performing economies<br/> <br/>39. EF Schumacher - Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (1973)<br/>A new economics must arise which takes more account of people than output<br/> <br/>40. Joseph Schumpeter - Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1942)<br/>No form of political economy matches the dynamism of capitalism and its process of ‘creative destruction’<br/> <br/>41. Thomas Schelling - Micromotives and Macrobehavior (1978)<br/>Small behaviors and choices of individuals ultimately produce ‘tipping points’ with major effects<br/> <br/>42. Amartya Sen - Poverty and Famines (1981)<br/>People starve not because there isn’t enough food, but because economics circumstances suddenly change<br/> <br/>43. Robert Shiller - Irrational Exuberance (2000)<br/>Psychology, not fundamental values, drives markets<br/> <br/>44. Julian Simon - The Ultimate Resource 2 (1997)<br/>The world will never run out of resources, because it is the human mind that drives advance, not capital or materials<br/> <br/>45. Adam Smith - The Wealth of Nations (1778)<br/>The wealth of a nation is that of its people, not its government<br/> <br/>46. Hernando de Soto - The Mystery of Capital (2003)<br/>Clear property rights are the basis of stability and prosperity<br/> <br/>47. Joseph Stiglitz - The Euro (2016)<br/>Europe’s failed currency and its ideological underpinnings<br/> <br/>48. Richard Thaler - Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics (2015)<br/>How psychology has transformed the economics discipline<br/> <br/>49. Thorstein Veblen - Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)<br/>The great goal of capitalist life is not to have to work - or to take on the appearance of not needing to<br/> <br/>50. Max Weber - The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904)<br/>Culture and religion are the most overlooked ingredients of economic success<br/> <br/>50 More Classics |
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