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5 | 5 | - **[Consumer Price Index (CPI)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_price_index)** - weighted average of market basket of common consumer goods and services |
6 | 6 | - **[Market Basket](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_basket)** - fixed list of items, in given proportions, commonly used to track the progress of inflation |
7 | 7 | - **[The Big Mac index](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index)** - [published](https://www.economist.com/big-mac-index) by [The Economist](https://www.economist.com/) as a way of measuring the purchasing power parity (PPP) between two currencies and provides a test of the extent to which market exchange rates result in goods costing the same in different countries. |
| 8 | + |
8 | 9 | - **[Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity)** - is a measurement of prices in different countries that uses the prices of specific goods to compare the absolute purchasing power of the countries' currencies. |
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| 11 | +## Books |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | +- [Best Economics Books: 49 Books To Really Understand Economics * Filmmaking Lifestyle](https://filmlifestyle.com/best-economics-books/) #book |
| 14 | +- [Five Economics Books Expert Recommendations](https://fivebooks.com/category/economics/), updated yearly, also has top 5 in various categories such as introduction to economics, macroeconomics, etc. |
| 15 | +- [Against Economics (2019)](https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/12/05/against-economics/) #book |
| 16 | +- [core-econ](https://www.core-econ.org/); free online textbooks and resources for teaching and learning economics #book |
| 17 | + - [The Economy online book](https://core-econ.org/the-economy/book/text/0-3-contents.html) |
| 18 | +- [Best Economics Books of 2020](https://fivebooks.com/best-books/economics-2020-diane-coyle/) #book |
| 19 | +- [The Enlightened Economist](http://enlightenmenteconomics.com/) - Economics and business books. #book |
| 20 | +- [Economics Reddit Wiki Recommended Reading](https://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/wiki/reading), but [math skills and familiarity with the intermediate micro/macro/metrics coursework are far more important for grad school admissions than the pop economics books on that reading list.](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEconomics/comments/hc8q1c/ive_read_91_of_the_books_on_the_reconomics/) |
| 21 | +- [What lies beneath: evidence from leaked account data on how elites use offshore banking](https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/What-lies-beneath_Collin.pdf) - 55 page paper/book on how elites are offshoring money, also includes solution to this problem. ([HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27089906)) |
| 22 | + |
10 | 23 | ## Resources |
11 | 24 |
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12 | 25 | - [A Simple Explanation of How Money Moves Around the Banking System](https://gendal.me/2013/11/24/a-simple-explanation-of-how-money-moves-around-the-banking-system/) |
13 | 26 | - depositing money = lending money to the bank, i.e. the account is in credit |
14 | 27 | - [EconDB](https://www.econdb.com/main-indicators/) - Economic overviews of countries. |
15 | 28 | - [Global Capitalism: A Looming Economic Crisis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hYKgyUU024) |
16 | | -- [Best Economics Books: 49 Books To Really Understand Economics * Filmmaking Lifestyle](https://filmlifestyle.com/best-economics-books/) |
17 | | -- [Five Economics Books Expert Recommendations](https://fivebooks.com/category/economics/), updated yearly, also has top 5 in various categories such as introduction to economics, macroeconomics, etc. |
18 | 29 | - [Supply, Demand, and the Value of Markets (2019)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNtKXWNKGN8) |
19 | 30 | - [The changing structure of American innovation: Some cautionary remarks for economic growth (2019)](https://www.nber.org/chapters/c14259.pdf) |
20 | 31 | - [Just Be Rich](https://keenen.xyz/just-be-rich/), ([HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26787654)) |
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25 | 36 | - [The Economics of Kenneth J. Arrow: A Selective Review (2019)](https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-economics-080218-030323) ([HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20817362)) |
26 | 37 | - [Lectures in Quantitative Economics with Python (2019)](https://python.quantecon.org/_downloads/pdf/quantitative_economics_with_python.pdf) |
27 | 38 | - [QuantEcon](https://quantecon.org/) - Open source code for economic modeling. |
28 | | -- [Against Economics (2019)](https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/12/05/against-economics/) |
29 | 39 | - [Money creation in the modern economy (2014)](https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-bulletin/2014/money-creation-in-the-modern-economy.pdf?la=en) |
30 | 40 | - [Negative Interest Rates Are Going to Ruin Everything (2020)](https://prestonbyrne.com/2020/01/10/nirp-is-going-to-ruin-everything/) ([Tweet](https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1216031124327141378)) ([HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22024200)) |
31 | | -- [core-econ](https://www.core-econ.org/); free online textbooks and resources for teaching and learning economics |
32 | | - - [The Economy online book](https://core-econ.org/the-economy/book/text/0-3-contents.html) |
33 | 41 | - [CORE](https://www.core-econ.org/) - Economics for a changing world. |
34 | 42 | - [Economic Research at the St. Louis Fed](https://research.stlouisfed.org/about.html) - Expand the frontier of economic knowledge by producing high-quality original research in the areas of macroeconomics, money and banking, and applied microeconomics. |
35 | 43 | - [Ask HN: What are you reading to make sense of the economy? (2020)](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22861452) |
36 | | -- [Stripe Press](https://press.stripe.com/) - Publishes books about economic and technological advancement. |
37 | 44 | - [Explained | The Stock Market (2020)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCFkWDdmXG8) |
38 | 45 | - [The Stock Market vs. The Economy (2020)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ECqDaPjjV0) |
39 | 46 | - [Naked Capitalism](https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/) - Fearless commentary on finance, economics, politics and power. |
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65 | 72 | - [Exponential Economist Meet Finite Physicist: Energy growth cant continue forever (2012)](https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist/) |
66 | 73 | - [Why Privatization Is Wrong (2020)](https://bostonreview.net/politics-philosophy-religion/chiara-cordelli-why-privatization-wrong) ([HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25199377)) |
67 | 74 | - [EconML](https://github.com/microsoft/EconML) - Python Package for ML-Based Heterogeneous Treatment Effects Estimation. ([Web](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/alice/)) |
68 | | -- [Best Economics Books of 2020](https://fivebooks.com/best-books/economics-2020-diane-coyle/) |
69 | | -- [The Enlightened Economist](http://enlightenmenteconomics.com/) - Economics and business books. |
70 | 75 | - [The Great Reset | World Economic Forum](https://www.weforum.org/great-reset/) |
71 | 76 | - [The Fraying of the US Global Currency Reserve System (2020)](https://www.lynalden.com/fraying-petrodollar-system/) ([HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25407583)) ([HN 2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25558573)) |
72 | 77 | - [Why Do People Stay Poor? (2020)](https://www.lse.ac.uk/economics/Assets/Documents/personal-pages/robin-burgess/why-do-people-stay-poor-evidence-on-poverty-traps-from-rural-bangladesh-revision-V4-32.pdf) ([HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25568800)) |
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76 | 81 | - [How religion shaped modern economics (2021)](https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-religion-shaped-modern-economics-11610643698) ([HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25836454)) |
77 | 82 | - [Narrative Economics](https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w23075/w23075.pdf) |
78 | 83 | - [HN: How this Ends (2021)](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26171022) |
79 | | -- [Economics Reddit Wiki Recommended Reading](https://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/wiki/reading), but [math skills and familiarity with the intermediate micro/macro/metrics coursework are far more important for grad school admissions than the pop economics books on that reading list.](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEconomics/comments/hc8q1c/ive_read_91_of_the_books_on_the_reconomics/) |
80 | 84 | - [The US government is inviting inflation (2021)](https://twitter.com/michaeljburry/status/1363226460979228673) ([HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26224191)) |
81 | 85 | - [Resources to history of inflation and its lessons](https://twitter.com/Anrosenblum/status/1366061711552176129) |
82 | 86 | - [Food Prices Are Soaring Faster Than Inflation and Incomes (2021)](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-01/inflation-2021-malnutrition-and-hunger-fears-rise-as-food-prices-soar-globally) ([HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26383419)) |
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91 | 95 | 3. asset price inflation - inflation of prices of financial assets |
92 | 96 | - the article analyses much more, on per-country bases, the affects on various investments from housing to stocks and bonds, etc. |
93 | 97 | - [What Happens to Stocks and Cryptocurrencies When the Fed Stops Raining Money?](https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-happens-to-stocks-and-cryptocurrencies-when-the-fed-stops-raining-money-11620446420) |
94 | | -- [What lies beneath: evidence from leaked account dataon how elites use offshore banking](https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/What-lies-beneath_Collin.pdf) - 55 page paper/book on how elites are offshoring money, also includes solution to this problem. ([HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27089906)) |
95 | 98 | - [Making Money isn't Magic](https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/duv1x8/making_money_isnt_magic/) |
96 | 99 | - [Fun Economic Facts](https://guzey.com/economics/fun-economic-facts/) |
97 | 100 | - [How The Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio (video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0); summarizes all the basics in 30 min long video. Productivity growth, short term dept cycle, and long term depth cycle. |
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