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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5843 times as economics)
avg rating 4.01 — 888,516 ratings — published 2005
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3139 times as economics)
avg rating 4.06 — 33,994 ratings — published 2013
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Paperback)
by (shelved 2677 times as economics)
avg rating 3.88 — 34,500 ratings — published 1776
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2432 times as economics)
avg rating 4.09 — 60,099 ratings — published 2012
Economics in One Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 2271 times as economics)
avg rating 4.16 — 21,234 ratings — published 1946
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2051 times as economics)
avg rating 4.21 — 25,948 ratings — published 2011
The Road to Serfdom (Paperback)
by (shelved 1990 times as economics)
avg rating 4.15 — 25,519 ratings — published 1944
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1884 times as economics)
avg rating 4.27 — 23,904 ratings — published 2011
Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1878 times as economics)
avg rating 4.37 — 13,923 ratings — published 2000
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1772 times as economics)
avg rating 4.17 — 569,996 ratings — published 2011
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1751 times as economics)
avg rating 4.00 — 133,823 ratings — published 2009
Capitalism and Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 1720 times as economics)
avg rating 3.90 — 14,877 ratings — published 1962
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 1638 times as economics)
avg rating 4.30 — 168,704 ratings — published 2010
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1623 times as economics)
avg rating 3.96 — 119,866 ratings — published 2007
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics (Paperback)
by (shelved 1476 times as economics)
avg rating 4.16 — 23,171 ratings — published 2016
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1430 times as economics)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,359 ratings — published 2007
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems (ebook)
by (shelved 1428 times as economics)
avg rating 4.22 — 14,432 ratings — published 2019
The Undercover Economist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1412 times as economics)
avg rating 3.81 — 29,189 ratings — published 2005
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1400 times as economics)
avg rating 3.90 — 30,286 ratings — published 2007
General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (Great Minds)
by (shelved 1373 times as economics)
avg rating 3.85 — 5,697 ratings — published 1935
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1298 times as economics)
avg rating 4.12 — 129,828 ratings — published 2008
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 1291 times as economics)
avg rating 3.84 — 93,247 ratings — published 2008
Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 1251 times as economics)
avg rating 4.03 — 19,358 ratings — published 2002
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Paperback)
by (shelved 1242 times as economics)
avg rating 4.17 — 15,216 ratings — published 2017
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 1231 times as economics)
avg rating 3.68 — 191,098 ratings — published 1848
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
by (shelved 1109 times as economics)
avg rating 4.08 — 70,089 ratings — published 2001
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1093 times as economics)
avg rating 3.96 — 12,433 ratings — published 2010
The Worldly Philosophers (Paperback)
by (shelved 1091 times as economics)
avg rating 4.16 — 8,799 ratings — published 1953
Economics: The User's Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1070 times as economics)
avg rating 4.16 — 8,353 ratings — published 2014
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1003 times as economics)
avg rating 4.34 — 4,207 ratings — published 1940
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 966 times as economics)
avg rating 4.02 — 9,833 ratings — published 2012
Free to Choose: A Personal Statement (Paperback)
by (shelved 913 times as economics)
avg rating 4.22 — 9,386 ratings — published 1979
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 884 times as economics)
avg rating 4.13 — 20,224 ratings — published 2013
The Intelligent Investor (Paperback)
by (shelved 865 times as economics)
avg rating 4.24 — 147,232 ratings — published 1949
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 823 times as economics)
avg rating 4.29 — 14,187 ratings — published 1887
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (Paperback)
by (shelved 809 times as economics)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,919 ratings — published 1973
The Psychology of Money (Paperback)
by (shelved 803 times as economics)
avg rating 4.29 — 291,727 ratings — published 2020
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 794 times as economics)
avg rating 3.87 — 39,135 ratings — published 2004
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 786 times as economics)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,644 ratings — published 2007
The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 782 times as economics)
avg rating 4.03 — 9,600 ratings — published 2020
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 758 times as economics)
avg rating 4.02 — 32,537 ratings — published 2018
Economic Facts and Fallacies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 725 times as economics)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,083 ratings — published 2007
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 719 times as economics)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,381 ratings — published 2005
Globalization and its Discontents (Paperback)
by (shelved 711 times as economics)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,129 ratings — published 2002
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 706 times as economics)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,183 ratings — published 1944
Das Kapital (Paperback)
by (shelved 700 times as economics)
avg rating 3.89 — 11,435 ratings — published 1867
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 692 times as economics)
avg rating 4.10 — 56,370 ratings — published 2012
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 675 times as economics)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,905 ratings — published 1942
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 669 times as economics)
avg rating 4.36 — 198,346 ratings — published 2018
The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 664 times as economics)
avg rating 3.83 — 8,851 ratings — published 2008
“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”
― Men at Arms: The Play
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”
― Men at Arms: The Play
“In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like compound interest.
Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.”
― An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.”
― An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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economic, economics-and-finance, economics-finance, finance-and-economics, finance-econ, finance-economics, and finance-economy
