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Fifty Economics Ideas
20th August 2009
I have just pre-ordered Edmund Conway’s new book “50 Economics Ideas” which is published in the UK at the start of August. Edmund’s blog and articles on the Telegraph can be found here The book is £6.99 from Amazon - and I hope will be a really useful addition to our departmental library with possible use as a class set resource. The fifty economic ideas contained within the book are as follows:
The Invisible Hand
Supply and Demand
The Malthusian Trap
Opportunity Cost
Incentives
Division of Labour
Comparative Advantage
Capitalism
Keynesianism
Monetarism
Marxism and Communism
Individualism
Supply-side Economics
The Marginal Revolution
Money
Micro and Macro
Gross Domestic Product
Central Banks and Interest Rates
Inflation
Debt and Deflation
Taxes
Unemployment
Currencies and Exchange Rates
Balance of Payments
Trust and the Law
Energy and Oil
Bond Markets
Banks
Stocks and Shares, Bulls and Bears
Risky Business
Bust and Boom?
Pensions and the Welfare State
Money Markets and 21st-century Finance
Blowing Bubbles
Credit Crunches
Creative Destruction
Home-owning and House Prices
Government Deficits
Inequality
Globalization
Multilateralism
Protectionism
Industrial Revolutions
Development Economics
Environmental Economics
Behavioural Economics
Game Theory
Criminomics
Happynomics
21st Century Economics
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.