The Invisible Hand offers a radical departure from the conventional wisdom of economists and economic historians, by showing that "factor markets" and the economies dominated by them - the market economies - are not modern, but have existed at various times in the past.

2016

Level: mittel

The Invisible Hand?

B. J. P. van Bavel

Oxford University Press

What is economics? What can - and can't - it explain about the world? Why does it matter?

2015

Level: leicht

Economics: The User's Guide

Ha-Joon Chang

Bloomsbury USA

Wealth inequality between Black and white people in the US barely has changed in the last 150 years. In her book "The Color of Money. Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap" Mehrsa Baradaran, analyzes why also Black banks have not successfully changed this and not enabled Black wealth on a broader scale.

2017

Level: mittel

The Color of Money

Mehrsa Baradaran

Harvard University Press

For intermediate courses in economics. A Unified View of the Latest Macroeconomic Events Macroeconomics, Blanchard presents a unified, global view of macroeconomics, enabling readers to see the connections between goods, financial markets, and labor markets worldwide.

2017

Level: mittel

Macroeconomics

Olivier J. Blanchard, David R. Johnson

Pearson

It has become a contentious term in- and outside of economic policy: austerity. Allegedly the culprit behind the shortfalls of governments' reaction to the Great Financial Crisis, the policy makes for a spirited debate.

2015

Level: leicht

Austerity

Mark Blyth

Oxford University Press

A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms highlights how, since the recent financial crises, the expression 'liberal reform' has entered common parlance as an evocative image of austerity and economic malaise, especially for the working classes and a segment of the middle class.

2024

Level: leicht

A History of Capitalist Transformation

Giampaolo Conte

Routledge