Economics

Economics is a social science concerned with the factors that determine the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek οἰκονομία from οἶκος (oikos, "house") and νόμος (nomos, "custom" or "law"), hence "rules of the house (hold for good management)". 'Political economy' was the earlier name for the subject, but economists in the late 19th century suggested "economics" as a shorter term for "economic science" to establish itself as a separate discipline outside of political science and other social science ...more

New Releases Tagged "Economics"

Planet Money: A Guide to the Economic Forces That Shape Your Life
Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed
Revenge of the Tipping Point
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
Autocracy, Inc.
I Deliver Parcels in Beijing
Fight Oligarchy
Planet Money: A Guide to the Economic Forces That Shape Your Life
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America
Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World
Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
One Bad Mother
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Capital in the Twenty First Century
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Economics in One Lesson
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
The Road to Serfdom
Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Capitalism and Freedom
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
Words are our Sorcery by Karl WigginsThe Master's Plan by Stephany TullisWhere Are You Now? by Sarah  ConnellBeyond the Last Time by Noah TuyaDon't Close Your Eyes by Lynessa James
Books With A Message
172 books — 207 voters

The Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsThe God Delusion by Richard DawkinsWhy Buddhism Is True by Robert  WrightMeditations by Marcus AureliusDarwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel C. Dennett
Sam Harris' Recommended Reading
191 books — 67 voters
Outliers by Malcolm GladwellFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittThe Tipping Point by Malcolm GladwellNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichBlink by Malcolm Gladwell
Sociology Books
562 books — 420 voters


John F. Kennedy
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. [State of the Union Address January 11 1962]
John F. Kennedy

Amartya Sen
A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.
Amartya Sen

More quotes...
learners of science and philosophy
4 members, last active 5 months ago
This group is fun way for those participating in the Marshall Public Library's annual adult read…more
27 members, last active 3 days ago
Books to help you learn business fundamentals. This is a 101 group for those who are new to bu…more
4 members, last active 4 years ago
Cool books and not bad reads.
2 members, last active 2 years ago

Tags

Tags contributing to this page include: economics, economic, economics-and-finance, economics-finance, finance-and-economics, finance-econ, finance-economics, and finance-economy