Most indicators count what has already happened. These eight start from what households, owners, managers and investors say they see and expect, then end with two gauges that turn many measurements into one reading of...
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The unemployment rate counts only people who are actively looking for work, so it can miss much of what is happening in a labor market. This trail follows eight companion measures in an order that moves from who is in...
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This trail follows the US housing market through eight indicators in the order a home moves from plan to price: builder sentiment, permits, construction work, new and resale contracts and closings, the price level, and...
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This path starts with how an economy measures what it earns and produces, follows those flows across borders and into government accounts, and ends with the indicators that ask who benefits and whether income alone...
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This path follows inflation measurement from the factory gate to the household and the paycheck. It starts with producer and wholesale prices, moves through the consumer price measures that central banks and governments...
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Economists sort indicators by when they move relative to the business cycle: leading measures turn before the economy does, coincident ones move with it, and lagging ones confirm what has already happened. This trail...
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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...
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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...
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Six figures whose ideas this atlas already described in its own concept pages, without a page of their own to click through to: Vilfredo Pareto (Pareto efficiency), Jean-Baptiste Say (Say's law), Joseph Schumpeter...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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