Offhand – The invisible hand (prices balancing supply & demand), Comparative Advantage, Marginalism, the Coase Theorem, Rational Choice. I’m partial to Tax Incidence as the big unappreciated one. Here’s a much bigger list from someone who actually ha…

Certainly the Kondratiev wave explains a lot about our current malaise and lingering recession/depression, and should be studied and understood and perhaps (gasp!) actually planned for by our central planners at the Federal Reserve.

Any book on major economic ideas must contain an explanation of the concept of a “central bank” and who controls and benefits from it, as well as who is economically oppressed and controlled by it, which topic of these 50 would you recommend, for someone nuanced in politics to read for a better understanding of the constant manipulation of our economic markets?