Economics_TheUser\'sGuide_APelicanIntrodu.epub

Contents PROLOGUE Why Bother? WHY DO YOU NEED TO LEARN ECONOMICS? INTERLUDE I How to Read This Book PART ONE: GETTING USED TO IT CHAPTER 1 Life, the Universe and Everything WHAT IS ECONOMICS? CHAPTER 2 From Pin to PIN CAPITALISM 1776 AND 2014 CHAPTER 3 How Have We Got Here? A BRIEF HISTORY OF CAPITALISM CHAPTER 4 Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom HOW TO ‘DO’ ECONOMICS CHAPTER 5 Dramatis Personae WHO ARE THE ECONOMIC ACTORS? INTERLUDE II: Moving On… PART TWO: USING IT CHAPTER 6 How Many Do You Want It to Be? OUTPUT, INCOME AND HAPPINESS CHAPTER 7 How Does Your Garden Grow? THE WORLD OF PRODUCTION CHAPTER 8 Trouble at the Fidelity Fiduciary Bank FINANCE CHAPTER 9 Boris’s Goat Should Drop Dead INEQUALITY AND POVERTY CHAPTER 10 I’ve Known a Few People Who’ve Worked WORK AND UNEMPLOYMENT CHAPTER 11 Leviathan or the Philosopher King? THE ROLE OF THE STATE CHAPTER 12 ‘All Things in Prolific Abundance’ THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION EPILOGUE What Now? HOW CAN WE USE ECONOMICS TO MAKE OUR ECONOMY BETTER? NOTES ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FOLLOW PENGUIN To my parents Why Are People Not Very Interested in Economics? Since you have picked up this boo......