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A LITTLE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS
Copyright © 2017 Niall Kishtainy
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Kishtainy, Niall, author.
Title: A little history of economics / Niall Kishtainy.
Description: First Edition. | New Haven : Yale University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016042806 | ISBN 9780300206364 (c1 : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Economics. | Economic history. | Economists.
Classification: LCC HB71 .K527 2017 | DDC 330.09—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016042806
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
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Contents
1Cool Heads and Warm Hearts
2The Soaring Swans
3God’s Economy
4Going for Gold
5Nature’s Bounty
6The Invisible Hand
7Corn Meets Iron
8An Ideal World
9Too Many Mouths
10Workers of the World
11A Perfect Balance
12Shut Out the Sun
13The Profits of War
14The Noisy Trumpeter
15Coke or Pepsi?
16The Man With a Plan
17Flashing your Cash
18Down the Plughole
19Creative Destruction
20The Prisoners’ Dilemma
21The Tyranny of Government
22The Big Push
23The Economics of Everything
24Growing Up
25Sweet Harmony
26A World in Two
27Fill Up the Bath
28Ruled by Clowns
29Money Illusion
30Future Gazing
31Speculators on the Attack
32Saving the Underdog
33Knowing Me, Knowing You
34Broken Promises
35Missing Women
36Minds in Fog
37Economics in the Real World
38Bankers Go Wild
39Giants in the Sky
40Why Be an Economist?
Index
CHAPTER 1
Cool Heads and Warm Hearts
The fact that you’re holding this book in your hands puts you in a special position. For a start, you (or whoever gave you this book) had the money to buy it. If you were from a poor country, your family would probably be scraping by on a few dollars a day. Most of your money would go on food and there wouldn’t be any left to buy a book. Even if you did get hold of a copy, chances are that it would be usele ............

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