02185nam a2200301 a 4500 794 MYCC 20260717110815.0 260717s2014 nyu o 000 0 eng d 9780718197032 paperback MYCC eng MYCC rda 23 330 330 CHA Chang, Ha-Joon, author. Economics : The User's Guide / Ha-Joon Chang. New York : Penguin Books Ltd , 2014 ©2014 xiii, 503 pages ; 18 cm rdacontent text rdamedia unmediated rdacarrier volume Why Bother? Why do you need to learn economics? -- Part 1: Getting used to it -- Life, the universe, and everything (what is economics?)-- From pin to PIN (Capitalism 1776 and 2014) -- How have we got here? (A brief history of capitalism) -- Let a hundred flowers bloom (How to do economics)-- Dramatis personae (who are the economic actors) -- Moving on -- Part 2: Using it -- How many do you want it to be? (Output, income and happiness) -- How does your garden grow? (The world of production) -- Trouble at the Fidelity Fiduciary Bank (Finance) -- Boris's GOat should drop dead (inequality and poverty) -- I've known a few people who've worked (work and unemployment) -- Leviathan or the Philosopher king? (The role of the state)-- All things in prolific abundance (The international dimension)-- what now? (How can we use economics to make our economy better?) What is economics? What can - and can't - it explain about the world? Why does it matter? Ha-Joon Chang teaches economics at Cambridge University, and writes a column for the Guardian. The Observer called his book 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism, which was a numbers1 bestseller, 'a witty and timely debunking of some of the biggest myths surrounding the global economy.' He won the Wassily Leontief Prize for advancing the frontiers of economic thought, and is a vocal critic of the failures of our current economic system. Economics Popular works. Business. Management. ddc 0 BK 0 0 ddc 0 0 MYCCLIB MYCCLIB GEN 2026-07-17 0 330 CHA 2014 11274 2026-07-17 11:10:32 2026-07-17 BK 0 0 ddc 0 0 MYCCLIB MYCCLIB REF 2026-07-17 0 330 CHA 2014 REF 11275 2026-07-17 11:10:32 2026-07-17 REF 794 794