Learn about the ideas of Joseph Stiglitz in just 50 minutes with this practical and concise book. Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize-winning economist and one of the best-known figures of New Keynesian economics. His work spans multiple domains of economics, including in particular political economics, development economics and econometrics. He is also a pioneer of information economics and an outspoken...
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Learn about the ideas of Karl Marx in just 50 minutes with this practical and concise book. Marx was a German economist and socialist revolutionary who had a significant influence on political thought, and particularly on Communism. His work includes a broad range of different political ideas, including the distribution of wealth and man's relationship with his environment, and gave rise to the...
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Margaret Thatcher was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was known in particular for being the longest serving British Prime Minister of the 20th century, not to mention for being the first woman to have ever held the office. It did not take long for...
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Understand the essentials of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (also known as Maslow's pyramid of needs) in just 50 minutes with this practical and concise book. As its name suggests, Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a representation of physiological and spiritual needs. It is a psychological model which was originally created by the American psychologists Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers in...
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Learn about the ideas of Milton Friedman in just 50 minutes with this practical and concise book. Friedman was a Nobel Prize-winning economist who lived through many of the most significant economic periods in the USA: he witnessed the roaring twenties, the Wall Street Crash and the Second World War. His work spans multiple domains of economics, including in particular consumption...
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Understand the essentials of the law of diminishing returns (also known as the law of variable proportions, principle of diminishing marginal productivity or diminishing marginal returns) in just 50 minutes with this practical and concise book. Developed by the influential British economist David Ricardo, this fundamental economic law demonstrates that, if the quantity of a given factor of production is increased, the marginal...
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Understand the essentials of the Mundell-Fleming model (also known as the IS-LM-BoP model or the IS-LM-BP model) in just 50 minutes with this practical and concise book. The Mundell-Fleming model is crucial to understanding international macroeconomics: it provides the general framework for economic policy within the Eurozone, and allows us to analyze the role of international capital mobility in the effectiveness of macroeconomic...
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