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Review # 1 was written on 2020-08-22 00:00:00 Mai Tbaishat Essentials of Economics is a delightful read. In fact, I will go on to say that it is one of the best books of economics that I have ever come across. Faustino Ballve, though an Austrian economist himself, doesn’t limit himself to AE itself. The book traces the development of various schools of economics. Ballve’s knowledge shines through the entire length of book. For example, he talks about how Aristotle had clearly differentiated between value in use and value in exchange of any commodity, a distinction that is credited to Adam Smith twenty two centuries later. Another illustration is his criticism of Communist Manifesto, authored by Marx and Engels in which they talk about an increasingly international economy with goods from far away lands finding place in ordinary households. This phenomena, Ballve correctly points out, was not as new as Engels and Marx would have us believe, as he proves by outlining evidences of international trade and trade routes since times immemorial. Ballve doesn’t prescribe AE, in that, he doesn’t merely raise economic questions and answers them through arguments that are commonly found in litereature of AE. Thus, the book doesn’t end up as a blatant criticism of all that is Marxist or Keynesian, but a logical rebuttal of their policy prescriptions. The book is such a delightful read because of the way it is written. Ballve has very systematically divided the book into various chapters, each addressing a question / aspect that confounds a diligent student of economics. Therefore, there are chapters titled Market, Money &Credit, International trade and so on. Each of these chapters builds on the previous ones, without confusing the reader by heaping in too many concepts at once. Different topics aren’t jumbled up, and each chapter tries to elucidate only the topic under study in those pages. Each question and each topic is viewed through the lens of different schools of economics and what earlier economists have had to say about them. Ballve then very methodically analyses what each school / economist / theorist says and points out to the reader the fallacies or the strengths of each standpoint. The reader is therefore not left with an impression of having heard a tirade of AE in oblivion to all other theories, but a systematic appraisal of theories that are popular, their strengths and weaknesses, and what they may lead to if implemented. Overall, a simple, wonderful treatise (though Ballve would himself not approve of his work being called a treatise because of the way other so called treatises in vogue approach economics). Definitely a must-read.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-04-30 00:00:00 Filton George Good intro to basic economics. I liked the perspective - free market/Austrian school, but was not real impressed with how persuasive the author was about the various ideas contained.