Economy

An economy (From Greek οίκος – "household" and νęμoμαι – "manage") is an area of the production, distribution, or trade, and consumption of goods and services by different agents in a given geographical location. Understood in its broadest sense, 'The economic is defined as a social domain that emphasizes the practices, discourses, and material expressions associated with the production, use and management of resources'. Economic agents can be individuals, businesses, organizations, or governments. Economic transactions occur when two parties agree to the value or price of the transacted good ...more

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Capital in the Twenty First Century
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
The Intelligent Investor
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Economics in One Lesson
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
The Road to Serfdom
Daniel Amory
I don’t think I’ve ever referred to any girl I dated as my girlfriend. I think that would freak me out. Even the girl that I dated for two years in college I don’t think I ever referred to her as my girlfriend.” “How would you introduce her?” I asked. “I’m just going to say her name,” he said.
Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs

Todor Bombov
This book was under arrest, along with its author. This event occurred on March 27, 1986. During that time, the totalitarian system in East Europe was called socialism and even by the scientific nonsense and absurd names of Communism and Communist system. In this system, the official ideology was allegedly Marxism, but really it could not endure any Marxist criticism. Since this “socialist” system was afraid of the weapon of criticism, it applied criticism of the weapon against its own citizens, ...more
Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

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