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When states interfere, it should be only to create a legal and efficient environment for these markets to coexist in peace. No forced traditions, labor, or plans will do well in the long run, because people do not work efficiently under such rules.

To build efficient markets, states should build the right legal structures and interfere as rarely as possible. Because markets are efficient and regulate themselves. Adam Smith highly popularized this theory. However, it looks true when you look at the highly efficient markets today compared to the ones from the past century.

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The book looks at the ideas of Karl Marx, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, David Ricardo, Thorstein Veblen, Jevons, Malthus, Marshall and John Maynard Keynes. And reaches the idea that all economists sought to understand the same main idea: how humans behave in a society.

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Macroeconomics focuses on aggregating these individual markets into a single economy that we can measure in terms of total output, total employment, price levels, etc.

The economists who have had the greatest impact on our lives tried their best to measure these two economic concepts and fi...

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The Worldly Philosophers – Book Review

The Worldly Philosophers covers the lives and works of many of the most influential economists in history, providing detailed biographical information about each one and explaining what their contributions were.

It also provides an overview of how economic thought has developed over time a...

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In a nutshell, it presents the world order from an economical point of view. Everything regarding macroeconomics these days is mathematical, social, political, and overall influenced by various events dating from centuries ago, all the way to our days.

The book follows these events and pres...

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Here are three of the best lessons from the book:

  • All economists sought to understand one common concept: how society works.
  • A market ruled by tradition, coercion, and rules of the past is deemed to crash.
  • Adam Smith is considered the father of modern economics due to his invaluable theory presented in 1776.

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The Worldly Philosophers – Book Summary

The Worldly Philosophers – Book Summary

The Worldly Philosophers is your hands-on guide to economics, how the world works overall but especially from a financial point of view, what are the social and economic systems that existed throughout history, and how certain people’s concepts got to shape the world we know today.

The Worl...

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“As long as custom and command ruled the world, the problem of riches and poverty hardly struck the earlier philosophers at all, other than to be accepted with a sign or railed at as another sign of man’s inner worthlessness”

-Robert L. Heilbroner

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Lesson 1: Regardless of their theories, every economist wanted to find out the single best way to organize a society.

Regardless of the theories they produced, every economist wanted to find out how to organize a society in the best way, economically and socially speaking.

The economists’ quest for this holy grail underlies their seemingly disparate approaches and theories. Yet their shared desire has led...

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Lesson 2: Efficient markets are driven by profits, freedom of choice and effective institutions.

History proves once again to be the teller of our present and future. And the best metric to analyze our actions and their consequences today. Actions of the past show how rulers who enforce their visions upon citizens and interfere with the economy and deemed to fall.

The 5-year economic p...

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Lesson 3: Adam Smith popularized a famous theory that is as relevant today as it was in 1776.

Many consider Adam Smith as the father of modern economics. That’s because he popularized a highly relevant piece of writing in 1776 titled “The Wealth of Nations”. This paper created a theory that provides a simple answer for how markets are highly efficient. And they regulate themselves through...

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This market’s equilibrium point is reached at the intersection between the two forces. People set prices themselves, and due to competition, they will lower as much as they need to, or grow accordingly.

This theory also states that societies will grow at their own pace. And that they develo...

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Who would I recommend The Worldly Philosophers to?

The 30-year-old person who is passionate about economics and the biographies of major influential figures in the economy, the 22-year-old student who wants to study outside their curricula, or the 34-year-old stock market investor who wants to gain a deeper understanding of the field by studying ...

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