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
Peter Joseph
Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money; the more there is of any resource the less you can charge for it. The more problems there are, the more opportunities there are to make money. This reality is a social disease, for people can actually gain off the misery of others and the destruction of the environment. Efficiency, abundance and sustainability are enemies of our economic structure, for they are inverse to the mec ...more
Peter Joseph

Ha-Joon Chang
The best way to boost the economy is to redistribute wealth downward, as poorer people tend to spend a higher proportion of their income.
Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

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