Category: Economics

23 Things About Capitalism

23 Things About Capitalism – Conclusions

Today is our last post about Ha-Joon Chang’s book – 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism. We’ll look back at what we’ve learned over the previous eight articles. And we’ll also hear what some other people thought of the book.

Who gets what and why

Who gets what and why – matching markets design

Today’s post is about who gets what and why. We’re going to look at this topic from four different angles – market design, globalisation, technology and inequality. Today we’ll focus on market design.

is economics any use

Is Economics any use?

Today we revisit our basic economics lesson from a couple of weeks ago, to see if the principles we introduced remain true, and if any of them are useful today. Is economics any use?