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Index
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
What is economics?
Old money
Pythagoras
Harmony of the Spheres
Oikonomikos
Plato’s Republic
Aristotle
A system of opposites
Limited vs. unlimited
Spreading the word
The Dark Ages
The Middle Ages
The growth of Islam
Feudalism
The universities
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Copernicus
Navarrus
Mercantilism
The rise of empire
Mercantilist economics
Power of the state
Strength in numbers
Rational mechanics
Atoms
Mad markets
Light vs. darkness
Leviathan
Love of gain
Locke’s blank slate
The social contract
The value of money
One vs. plurality
Supply and demand
Silver crisis
Free trade
The science of money
William Petty
Political arithmetick
Weights and measures
Making some dough
François Quesnay
The Physiocrats
Le Zig-zag
Blood-letting
Go with the flow
Jacques Turgot
Adam Smith
The Scottish Enlightenment
The age of commerce
The mercenary society
The Wealth of Nations
A labour theory of value
The natural price
The law of economic gravity
The invisible hand
Market order
Divide and conquer
Growing markets
The Industrial Revolution
Thomas Malthus
Exponential growth
Sickly season
Survival of the fittest
Jeremy Bentham
The hedonistic science
Rational society
David Ricardo
High rent
Repealing the Corn Laws
Comparative advantage
John Stuart Mill
Spread the wealth
Human improvement
Steady state
Making Money
Karl Marx
Surplus value
Boom and bust
Class revolt
The end of history
Say you want a revolution
Supply and demand
Real science.
Marginal utility
Rational economics
Market oscillations
The average man
Ideal markets
Léon Walras
Pure economics
The groping hand
Vilfredo Pareto
The 80-20 rule
Neoclassical economics
Rational economic man
At rest vs. in motion
Sunspots
A specialized field
Alfred Marshall
Burn the mathematics
Carl Menger
Subjective value
The spontaneously emerging hand
John Bates Clark
Economies of scale
Conspicuous consumption
The leisure class
Irving Fisher
Quantity theory
Fast money
Crash
John Maynard Keynes
The paradox of thrift
The multiplier effect
Animal spirits
The long run
The New Deal
New world order
The business cycle
Super cycle
Creative destruction
Hayek and the uncomputable
Hayek’s influence
The neoclassical synthesis
The Phillips curve
Paul Samuelson
Bastard Keynesianism
Losing sight of uncertainty
The Arrow-Debreu model
Shopping list
Future perfect
The jewel in the crown
Milton Friedman
Monetarism
Stagflation
Slow and steady
Natural unemployment
The Chicago approach
Rational markets
Perfect model
Efficient markets
Economic astrology
Bad forecast
The normal distribution
Financial engineering
The Bank of Sweden Prize
The Apollo missions
Model economy
Earthrise
Spaceship Earth
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen
Natural capital
Steady state
Ecological economics
The church of economics
Behavioural economics
Information asymmetry
Power law
The science of happiness
Feminist economics
The Minsky Moment
Crash-prone
Complex systems
Agent-based models
Uncertainty reappears
Subprime
A lack of ethics
Linear science
Post-Pythagorean economics
“Eco-nomics”
Further Reading
About the Author and Artist
Acknowledgements
Index
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