pbWINNER - SILVER MEDAL, AXIOM BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2018br'Something of a modern classic in its own right.' iE&T magazine/ibrbr/bEconomics drives the modern world and shapes our lives, but few of us feel we have time to engage with the breadth of ideas in the subject. ibrbr50 Economics Classics/i is the smart person's guide to two centuries of discussion of finance, capitalism and the global economy. From Adam Smith's iWealth of Nations/i to Thomas Piketty's bestseller iCapital in the Twenty-First Century/i, here are the great reads, seminal ideas and famous texts, clarified and illuminated for all.brbrbEXPLORE/b the ideas of some of the greatest thinkers in economics:brbrMilton Friedman on economic freedom - J. K. Galbraith on 1929 - Friedrich Hayek on knowledge - Jane Jacobs on cities - J. M. Keynes on depressions - Thomas Malthus on population - Karl Marx on capital - David Ricardo on free trade - Joseph Schumpeter's 'creative destruction' - Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' - Max Weber's 'spirit of capitalism'brbrbGAIN/b the insights and research of contemporary economists and commentators:brbrWilliam Baumol on entrepreneurs - Gary Becker on human capital - Diane Coyle on GDP - Naomi Klein on neoliberalism - Paul Krugman on inequality - Deirdre McCloskey on ideas - Dambisa Moyo on aid - Thomas Piketty on wealth concentration - Amartya Sen on food security - Joseph Stiglitz on the euro - Richard Thaler on behavioral economics - Michael Lewis on the 2007-08 crisis - Dani Rodrik on globalization - Robert Shiller on asset bubblesbrbrbDISCOVER/b the truth behind the headlines in these landmark bestsellers and works of economic history:brbriLords of Finance - The Second Machine Age/i - iThe Little Book of Common Sense Investing/i - i23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism/i - iThe Ascent of Money/i - iThe Intelligent Investor/i - iThe Rise and Fall of American Growth/i i- Freakonomics /i- iThe Competitive Advantage of Nations/i - iThe Mystery of Capital/i - iSmall is Beautiful/i - iThe Theory of the Leisure Class /i/p