TY - GEN AU - Partha Dasgupta TI - Economics: A Very Short Introduction SN - 9780192853455 U1 - 330 PY - 2017/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Economics N1 - Table of Contents Preface Prologue 1: Macroeconomic History 2: Trust 3: Communities 4: Markets 5: Science and Technology as Institutions 6: Households and Firms 7: Sustainable Economic Development 8: Social Well-Being and Democratic Government Epilogue Further Reading N2 - Economics has the capacity to offer us deep insights into some of the most formidable problems of life, and offer solutions to them too. Combining a global approach with examples from everyday life, Partha Dasgupta reveals the connections between economics, politics, and development, and shows how these interactions create the world we live in today ER -