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  • How to Think Like an Economist

    Great Economists Who Shaped the World and What They Can Teach Us

    by Robbie Mochrie ...
    Series series How To Think
    Capturing the essence of history's most influential economists in enjoyable and illuminating biographical sketches, this book shows how the great economic thinkers are still relevant today.We live in the economy – and we are part of it. Living through a pandemic, governments had to work out how to put economies into a deep freeze without destroying them. Avoiding climate catastrophe means changing ... Read more

    $15.39 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    How to Think Like an Economist

    Great Economists Who Shaped the World and What They Can Teach Us

    by Robbie Mochrie ...
    Narrated by Ben Onwukwe ...
    Series series How To Think

    Unabridged

    11 hours 6 min

    Bloomsbury presents How to Think Like an Economist by Robbie Mochrie, read by Ben Onwukwe.This book will leave the reader not just smarter – but wiser. -- Professor Erik Angner, Stockholm University, author of How Economics Can Save the WorldWe live in the economy – and we are part of it. Living through a pandemic, governments had to work out how to put economies into a deep freeze without ... Read more

    $22.00 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • A History of Economic Thought

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  • Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism

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  • The Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes

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  • Late Soviet Britain

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