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A path from the schools of economic thought that disputed how economies work to the central banks, trade bodies and research institutions built to act on the answer, from the Methodenstreit to the Bank of Japan's...
7 stops
A guided path through this wave's new institutions and events, showing how the same central bank, the same downturn, or the same policy shock reads differently depending on which school of economic thought is doing the...
7 stops
From Song Dynasty paper money to the Asian Financial Crisis, ten moments when a panic, a hyperinflation or a policy reversal changed how the world thinks about money and trade.
10 stops
Ten schools in chronological order, 1500 to 1979, each paired with the economist whose own work carries it: bullion and trade balances, land as the sole wealth, the invisible hand, class conflict, the impossibility of...
20 stops
A tour of core ideas from micro, macro, trade, development and behavioral economics, and of schools of thought from Freiburg to Baghdad to Buenos Aires that a Western-only survey leaves out.
11 stops
A tour of economics' central rivalry: the Keynesian mainstream, the Monetarist and Austrian counters, and the three schools of thought that rose in the 1960s-80s to challenge it further, told through the economists who...
12 stops
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