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2. John Kenneth Galbraith - Wikipedia

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   Contents. John Kenneth Galbraith. John Kenneth Galbraith[ a ] OC (October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006), also known as Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s. As an economist, he leaned toward post-Keynesian ...

3. Consumer economy - Wikipedia

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   Charles Hugh Smith, writing for Business Insider, argues that while the use of credit has positive features in low amounts, but that the consumer economy and its expansion of credit produces consumer ennui because there is a marginal return to consumption, and that hyperinflation experts recommended investment in tangible goods.

4. Economics - Wikipedia

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   t. e. Economics (/ ˌɛkəˈnɒmɪks, ˌiːkə -/) [1][2] is a social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. [3][4] Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work.

5. Head First (book series) - Wikipedia

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   Head First. (book series) Head First is a series of introductory instructional books to many topics, published by O'Reilly Media. It stresses an unorthodox, visually intensive, reader-involving combination of puzzles, jokes, nonstandard design and layout, and an engaging, conversational style to immerse the reader in a given topic.

6. Paul Krugman - Wikipedia

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   Paul Krugman. Paul Robin Krugman (/ ˈkrʊɡmən / ⓘ KRUUG-mən; [4][5] born February 28, 1953) [6] is an American economist who is the Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and a columnist for The New York Times. [7] In 2008, Krugman was the sole winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in ...

7. Economics in One Lesson - Wikipedia

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   ISBN. 0517548232. OCLC. 167574. Economics in One Lesson is an introduction to economics written by Henry Hazlitt and first published in 1946. It is based on Frédéric Bastiat 's essay Ce qu'on voit et ce qu'on ne voit pas (English: "What is Seen and What is Not Seen"). [1] The "One Lesson" is stated in Part One of the book: "The art of ...

8. Shephard's lemma - Wikipedia

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   Shephard's lemma is a major result in microeconomics having applications in the theory of the firm and in consumer choice. [1] The lemma states that if indifference curves of the expenditure or cost function are convex, then the cost minimizing point of a given good ( ) with price is unique. The idea is that a consumer will buy a unique ideal ...

9. Keynesian economics - Wikipedia

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   Keynesian economics (/ ˈkeɪnziən / KAYN-zee-ən; sometimes Keynesianism, named after British economist John Maynard Keynes) are the various macroeconomic theories and models of how aggregate demand (total spending in the economy) strongly influences economic output and inflation. [1] In the Keynesian view, aggregate demand does not ...