Economics Essentials
经济学入门
Economics is often misread as a technique for predicting markets. This path restores it as a discipline about scarcity, incentives, and institutions — and lets you see the arguments between its schools.
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Level 01
Markets and Division of Labor
The starting point: how specialization and exchange expand total output.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
《国富论》
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Level 02
Institutions and Prosperity
Shift the explanation from resources to rules: who writes them and who bears the consequences.
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
《国家为什么会失败》
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Level 03
Money and Crisis
Eight centuries of data teach one lesson: everyone says this time is different.
This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
《这次不一样：八百年金融危机史》
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Level 04
Macroeconomics and Policy
Understand effective demand, the role of government, and the source of twentieth-century macro debates.
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
《就业、利息和货币通论》
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Level 05
Behavior and Real Decisions
Bring the rational-actor assumption back to reality: people are predictably irrational.
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
《“错误”的行为：行为经济学的形成》
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Level 06
The History of Economic Thought
Return to the ideas themselves, and see what question each generation was answering.
The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers
《世俗哲学家：伟大经济学家的生平、时代与思想》