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First published 2022

How to Think about the Economy: A Primer

by Per Bylund

Mises Institute, 2022142 pagesISBN 9781610167550

How to Think about the Economy: A Primer by Per Bylund is available as a free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle download at freecapitalists.org, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0.

Author
Per Bylund
First published
2022
Format
PDF, EPUB, and Kindle
Pages
142
ISBN
9781610167550
Publisher
Mises Institute
License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0

Austrian theory & method

This little book was written to accomplish something big: economic literacy. It is intentionally kept very short to be inviting rather than intimidating. If I managed to meet this bar, you, the reader, will gain life-changing understanding of how the economy works in practically no time.

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How long is How to Think about the Economy: A Primer?
142 pages, 15 chapters, and about 31,455 words in the edition this archive serves.
Can I reuse or republish How to Think about the Economy: A Primer?
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Who wrote How to Think about the Economy: A Primer?
Per Bylund, PhD, is a Senior Fellow of the Mises Institute and Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Johnny D.

What's in it

15 chapters · 31,455 words · free to read here

  1. Dedication
  2. Preface
  3. 1. What Economics Is
  4. 2. Economic Theory
  5. 3. How to Do Economics
  6. 4. A Process, Not a Factory
  7. 5. Production and Entrepreneurship
  8. 6. Value, Money, and Price
  9. 7. Economic Calculation
  10. 8. Monetary Intervention
  11. 9. Regulatory Intervention
  12. Conclusion: Action and Interaction
  13. Further Reading
  14. Index
  15. About this edition
Portrait of Per Bylund

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Per Bylund

Per Bylund, PhD, is a Senior Fellow of the Mises Institute and Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Johnny D. Pope Chair in the School of Entrepreneurship in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University, and an… Read more about Per Bylund.

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