Understand Economics
Discover essential economics books to understand the forces shaping our world, from Philip Ball's *Critical Mass* to Keynes' *General Theory*.
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Critical Mass
by Philip Ball
"In searching for answers, the science writer Philip Ball argues that we can enlist help from a seemingly unlikely source: physics. The first person to think this way was the seventeenth-century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes. His approach, described in Leviathan, was based not on utopian wishful thinking, but rather on Galileo's mechanics; it was an attempt to construct a moral and political theory from scientific first principles. Although his solution - absolute monarchy - is unappealing today, Hobbes sparked a new way of thinking about human behavior in looking for the "scientific" rules of society. Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, Auguste Comte, and John Stuart Mill pursued this same idea from different political perspectives."--BOOK JACKET.
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
by John Maynard Keynes
Originally published: New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1936.