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Index
Cover
Title Page
Contents
Dedication
Prologue: Why Bother?
Why Are People Not Very Interested in Economics?
How Is This Book Different?
Interlude I: How to Read This Book
Economics: The Users Guide
PART ONE: Getting Used to It
Chapter 1: Life, the Universe and Everything
Economics Is the Study of Rational Human Choice …
… or Is It the Study of the Economy?
Concluding Remarks: Economics as the Study of the Economy
Further Reading
Chapter 2: From Pin to PIN
From Pin to PIN
All Change: How the Actors and the Institutions of Capitalism Have Changed
Concluding Remarks: Real-world Changes and Economic Theories
Further Reading
Chapter 3: How Have We Got Here?
One Fucking Thing after Another: What Use Is History?
Tortoise vs. Snails: the World Economy before Capitalism
The Dawn of Capitalism: 1500–1820
1820–1870: The Industrial Revolution
1870–1913: High Noon
1914–45: The Turmoil
1945–73: The Golden Age of Capitalism
1973–9: The Interregnum
1980–Today: The Rise and Fall of Neo-liberalism
Further Reading
Chapter 4: Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom
The One Ring to Rule Them All?: The Diversity of Approaches to Economics
Cocktails or the Whole Drinks Cabinet?: How to Read This Chapter
The Classical School
The Neoclassical School
The Marxist School
The Developmentalist Tradition
The Austrian School
The (Neo-)Schumpeterian School
The Keynesian School
The Institutionalist School – Old and New?
The Behaviouralist School
Concluding Remarks: How to Make Economics Better
Further Reading
Appendix: Comparing Different Schools of Economics
Chapter 5: Dramatis Personae
Individuals as Heroes and Heroines
Organizations as the Real Heroes: The Reality of Economic Decision-making
Even Individuals Are Not What They Are Supposed to Be
Concluding Remarks: Only Imperfect Individuals Can Make Real Choices
Further Reading
Interlude II: Moving On …
PART TWO: Using It
Chapter 6: How Many Do You Want It to Be?
Output
Income
Happiness
Concluding Remarks: Why Numbers in Economics Can Never Be Objective
Further Reading
Chapter 7: How Does Your Garden Grow?
Economic Growth and Economic Development
Industrialization and Deindustrialization
Running Out of the Planet?: Taking Environmental Sustainability Seriously
Concluding Remarks: Why We Need to Pay More Attention to Production
Further Reading
Chapter 8: Trouble at the Fidelity Fiduciary Bank Finance
Banks and the ‘Traditional’ Financial System
Investment Banks and the Rise of the New Financial System
The New Financial System and Its Consequences
Concluding Remarks: Finance Needs to Be Strictly Regulated Exactly Because It Is So Powerful
Further Reading
Chapter 9: Boris’s Goat Should Drop Dead
Inequality
Poverty
Concluding Remarks: Why Poverty and Inequality Are Not Beyond Human Control
Further Reading
Chapter 10: I’ve Known a Few People Who’ve Worked
Work
Unemployment
Concluding Remarks: Taking Work Seriously
Further Reading
Chapter 11: Leviathan or the Philosopher King?
The State and Economics
The Morality of State Intervention
Market Failures
Government Failure
Market and Politics
What Governments Do
Concluding Remarks: Economics Is a Political Argument
Further Reading
Chapter 12: ‘All Things in Prolific Abundance’
International Trade
Balance of Payments
Foreign Direct Investments and Transnational Corporations (TNCs)
Immigration and Remittances
Concluding Remarks: Best of All Possible Worlds?
Further Reading
Epilogue: What Now?
How to ‘Use’ Economics?
So What?: The Economy Is Too Important to be Left to Professional Economists
Final Thoughts: Easier Than You Think
Notes
Acknowledgements
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Copyright Page
Footnotes
Prologue: Why Bother?
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Page 7
PART ONE: Getting Used to It
Chapter 1: Life, the Universe and Everything
Page 18
Page 19
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Chapter 2: From Pin to PIN
Page 32
Page 34
Page 36
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Page 41
Chapter 3: How Have We Got Here?
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Chapter 4: Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom
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Chapter 5: Dramatis Personae
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PART TWO: Using It
Chapter 6: How Many Do You Want It to Be?
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Chapter 7: How Does Your Garden Grow?
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Chapter 8: Trouble at the Fidelity Fiduciary Bank Finance
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Chapter 9: Boris’s Goat Should Drop Dead
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Chapter 10: I’ve Known a Few People Who’ve Worked
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Chapter 11: Leviathan or the Philosopher King?
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Chapter 12: ‘All Things in Prolific Abundance’
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