TY - GEN AU - Chang, Ha-Joon TI - Economics : a user's guide SN - 9780718197032 U1 - 330.01 PY - 2014/// CY - London PB - Penguin Book Ltd. KW - N1 - CONTENTS Acknowledgements xi Prologue Why bother? Why do you need to learn economics? 1 Interlude I How to read this book 9 Part One :getting used to it Chapter One : Life, the universe and everything : what is economics? 15 Chapter Two : From pin to PIN : capitalism 1776 and 2014 29 Chapter Three : How have we got here? : a brief history of capitalism 45 Chapter Four : Let a hundred flowers bloom : how to 'do' economics 109 Chapter Five : Dramatis personae : who are the economic actors? 171 Interlude II Moving on... 203 Part Two : Using It Chapter Six How many do you want it to be? : Output, income and happiness 209 Chapter Seven : How does your garden grow? : The world of production 239 Chapter Eight : Trouble at the fidelity fiduciary bank : finance 277 Chapter Nine : Boris's Goat should drop dead : inequality and poverty 315 Chapter Ten : I've known a few people who've worked : work and unemployment 345 Chapter Eleven : Leviathan or the Philosopher King? : The role of the state 375 Chapter Twelve : "All things in prolific abundance" : the international Dimension 405 Epilogue What now? : How can we use economics to make our economy better? 449 Notes 463 Index 485 ER -