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Economic Theory

If you’re interested in society’s economic foundations, this is the category for you. Here you’ll find the classics from luminaries like Adam Smith, Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes, as well as the current work of today’s leading economists.

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Capitalism
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Behavioral Economics
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Summaries

9 Book

The Economist's View of the World
And the Quest for Well-Being
Steven E. Rhoads
Cambridge UP, 2021
9 Book

Progress and Poverty
An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth; The Remedy
Henry George
CreateSpace, 2017
10 Book

The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
John Maynard Keynes
Prometheus Books, 1997
9 Article

Is It Time for a New Economics Curriculum?
“The Economy,” a new textbook, is designed for the post-neoliberal age.
Nick Romeo
The New Yorker, 2021
8 Article

What Happens When You’re the Investment
Social capital is becoming economic capital
Rex Woodbury
The Atlantic, 2021
8 Article

Distribution Matters
Binyamin Appelbaum
Finance & Development , 2020
7 Report

Perceived Relative Wealth and Risk Taking
Dietmar Fehr and Yannick Reichlin
CESifo Group Munich, 2021
9 Book

Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty
Belknap Press, 2014
8 Book

Thinking like an Economist
How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy
Elizabeth Berman
Princeton UP, 2022
9 Book

Cogs and Monsters
What Economics Is, and What It Should Be
Diane Coyle
Princeton UP, 2021