The LITTLE BOOK OF BIG IDEAS: ECONOMICS gives an extraordinary insight into the development of one of the most internationally important and pervasive modern sciences. It explores the concepts of game theory, empirics, econometrics, and finance theory, and contains contributions from great names such as Mill, Keynes, Marx and Mises. * Review the great works of the Ancients and Scholastics, the premier economic thinkers from the Ancient world, from Aquinas, Buridan, de Oresme and Biel. * Trace the revolutions in economic thought and action from Bentham and the Utilitarians to Friedman and the Monetarists * Consider the founders of the great schools of thought with Lord Robbins and the London School of Economics, Menger and the Austrian School, Clark and the American Apologists and Knight and the Chicago School.