The Concise Guide To Economics

by Jim Cox
 

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Introduction

Basics and Applications

  1. Overview of the Schools of Economic Thought
  2. Entrepreneurship
  3. Profit/Loss System
  4. The Capitalist Function
  5. The Minimum Wage
  6. Price Gouging
  7. Price Controls
  8. Regulation
  9. Licensing
  10. Monopoly
  11. Anti-Trust
  12. Unions
  13. Advertising
  14. Speculators
  15. Heroic Insider Trading
  16. Owners vs. Managers
  17. Market vs. Government Provision of Goods
  18. Market vs. Command Economy
  19. Free Trade vs. Protectionism

Money and Banking

  1. Money
  2. Inflation
  3. The Gold Standard
  4. The Federal Reserve System
  5. The Business Cycle
  6. Black Tuesday
  7. The Great Depression

Technicals

  1. Methodology
  2. Labor Theory of Value
  3. The Trade Deficit
  4. Economic Class Analysis
  5. Justice, Property Rights and Inheritance
  6. Cost Push
  7. The Phillips Curve
  8. Perfect Competition
  9. The Multiplier
  10. The Calculation Debate
  11. The History of Economic Thought

A Chronology

About the Author

Praise for the Book

A Chronology

1350 - 1700

Spanish Scholastics

1766

A. R. J. Turgot (1727 - 1781) Reflections

1776

Adam Smith (1704 - 1790) The Wealth of Nations

1848

Karl Marx (1815 - 1878) The Communist Manifesto

1912

Ludwig von Mises (1881 - 1973) The Theory of Money and Credit

1936

John Maynard Keynes (1890 - 1947) The General Theory

1962

Milton Friedman (1912 - ) Capitalism and Freedom

Murray N. Rothbard (1926 - 1995) Man, Economy, and State

 

The Concise Guide To Economics © 1995, 1997 Jim Cox