Essentials of Economics is an accessible survey of economic history, theory, and application in only one hundred pages. It was written in Mexico City by the Catalan polymath Faustino Ballvé in 1956, translated in 1963 by Arthur Goddard with support from the William Volker Fund and the Foundation for Economic Education, and is now in a fresh digital edition from publicly available source texts courtesy of Jack VanDrunen.
Chapters
- Foreword
- Preface to the English-Language Edition
- Preface to the Spanish-Language Edition
- What Is Economics About?
- The Market
- The Role of the Entrepreneur
- Capital, Labor, and Wages
- Money and Credit
- Monopoly, Crises, and Unemployment
- International Trade
- Nationalism and Socialism
- The Controlled Economy
- What Economics Is Not About