CHAPTER 11

How Capitalism Works

From Adam Smith’s invisible hand to Keynes’ and Minsky’s economies in crisis to Friedman’s monetary theory of inflation and beyond, we provide our layperson’s view of how it all works. Complexity is unavoidable with billions of participants, trillions of markets and uncountable numbers of transactions every day but one conclusion is clear – economies are prone to periods of boom and bust.

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