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
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
The Intelligent Investor
Economics in One Lesson
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
The Road to Serfdom
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
Ronald Reagan
You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.
Ronald Reagan

Ha-Joon Chang
Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rich as what they are -- a simple upward redistribution of income, rather than a way to make all of us richer, as we were told.
Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

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