Economics in Three Lessons and One Hundred Economics Laws: Two Works in One Volume (Hunter Lewis, 2017)
- 18 century shortage of bread in France but Queen Marie told people to eat cake instead - stupid example
- When luxuries first existed it is expensive until production grows and most people can afford
- Analytics law: material life, boundaries, physical science myopia, logic, mathematics, economics data, predicting the future, immutability, universality, corruption
- Sustainability law: unintended consequences
- Labour law: voluntary exchange, private ownership, diseconomies of scale, diminishing returns, comparative advantage, absolute advantage, deceptive trade practices, scale of participation
- Liebig’s Law - growth is dictated not by total resources available, but by the scarcest resource
- Price law: discovery and communication, order, honest price, supply, demand, supply and demand, one price, marginal utility, monopoly
- Economy is like a jigsaw puzzle with billion pieces that miraculously assembles itself
- Profit law: consumer control, patience, speculation, loss and bankruptcy, change, changing ideas, frictional unemployment
- Profits and wages law: union wage gain, mandated wage floors or gain, supply and demand, balanced price, wage ceilings
- Say’s law - aggregate production necessarily creates an equal quantity of aggregate demand
- Equality and inequality law: the problem of envy, inequality data and its interpreters, greed and conspicuous consumption, the trickle down fallacy, wealth taxes, wealth redistribution, making the worker the boss
- Division of labour within the free price system: competition within an overall system of cooperation, growing networks, worldliness redefined, nation size, individualism and cooperatism, world governments today
- Economics calculation law: measuring change, limits of calculation, externalities
- Economics calculation outside business law: borrow price, halfway houses between socialism and a free price system
- Government law
- Money law: gold, Gresham’s Law, paper money, paper money and inflation, diversification, investment value
- Money prices law: stabilizing prices, measuring prices, elastic money supply, real wealth, deflation, inflation
- Interest rates law
- Banking law: fractional reserves create money, federal reserve, fed as price fixer, reform, bank privatisation
- Government-controlled banking law: government financing options 101
- Spending versus saving law: fiscal stimulus, Keynesian financing tricks
- Non-neutrality of money law
- Non-neutrality of money, newly created money, business cycles and depression law