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Reiss Economics
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  • What Went Wrong with Economics II
  • Preface: Economics, It’s Not Rocket Science... Is It?
  • 1. Our Money System - most textbooks get it wrong
  • 2. Supply and Demand, often it works in reverse.
  • 3. Savings and Unavoidable Ponzi Dynamics
  • 4. Booms and Busts—The Austrians Were on the Right Track
  • 5. Money flows, inflation and unemployment.
  • 6. Monetary Illusions and Unemployment
  • 7. A Growing/Shrinking Money Supply: More Causes and Effects
  • 8. Interest Rates and Investing Against Our Will
  • 9. Investments and Pseudo-investments: Which do Banks Prefer?
  • 10. Pseudo-investment 1: Private Tailgating
  • 11. Pseudo-investment 2: Government Tailgating
  • 12. Pseudo-investment 3: (Most) Share Dealing
  • 13. The Bloated Financial Sector
  • 14. The Private Pensions Casino
  • 15. Land Ownership and Mortgages
  • 16. Restless Bandits and Competition
  • 17. Full reserve banking
  • 18. A Recipe for a More Stable Economy
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2024 update to list of chancellors

It appears that the situation has improved somewhat since the crash with chancellors having studied mostly more numerate subjects, most commonly with the degree of "Philosophy, politics and economics" (PPE).

Chancellor
Main subject at degree level or higher

Philip Hammond

PPE

Sajid Javid

Economics and Politics

Rishi Sunak

PPE and MBA

Nadhim Zahawi

Chemical engineering

Kwasi Kwarteng

Classics and history / PhD in political history

Jeremy Hunt

PPE

Rachel Reeves

PPE then MSc in economics

Last updated 8 months ago