Essentials of Economics is an accessible survey of economic history, theory, and application in only one hundred pages. It was written 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.

This edition was independently compiled from source texts made publicly available by the Ludwig von Mises Institute.