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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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7 Article

Is Your Phone the Reason You Feel Broke?

The smartphone economy is booming — and it also feels awful.
John Herrman
New York Magazine, 2023
Book

Nudge

The Final Edition
Cass R. Sunstein and Richard H. Thaler
Penguin, 2021
8 Article

An Economics Lesson from Tolstoy

The Russian novelist believed that the dismal science was inescapably suffused with morality and politics.
Nick Romeo
The New Yorker, 2024
8 Article

Pricing Strategy

How Our Brains Keep Us Stuck
Melina Palmer
Behavioral Economics.com, 2023
9 Book

The Power of Money

How Governments and Banks Create Money and Help Us All Prosper
Paul Sheard
Matt Holt Books, 2023
8 Book

The Myth That Made Us

How False Beliefs about Racism and Meritocracy Broke Our Economy (and How to Fix It)
Jeff Fuhrer
MIT Press, 2023
8 Article
Anthony Gill
American Institute for Economic Research, 2023
9 Podcast
Steve Odland et al.
The Conference Board, 2023
8 Report
Ozge Akinci et al.
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2023
8 Podcast

A Guide to the ‘Legal Fictions’ That Create Wealth, Inequality and Economic Crises

The legal scholar Katharina Pistor examines the hidden legal layer propping up our modern economic system.
Ezra Klein et al.
The New York Times, 2023
8 Report

Machines of Mind

The Case for an AI-Powered Productivity Boom
Martin Neil Baily et al.
Brookings Institution, 2023
8 Report
Olivia Moore and Anish Acharya
a16z, 2023