Essentials of Economics - Faustino Ballvé

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Originally written in Spanish by Professor Faustino Ballvé in Mexico, the aforementioned Leonard Read stumbled upon this book and decided to publish it in English. This 99-page primer will familiarize you with the most basic principles, ideas, and applications of economics. Ballvé will help you understand what economics actually is, and from there, will help you further understand its implications.

...the economic domain is constituted by human action directed toward the satisfaction of wants by the exercise of the power of choice. Economics is, accordingly, the study of this economic activity on the part of man. It is not concerned with philosophical or moral problems, since economic science is not adjudicative, but descriptive.