To the outsider, mining Bitcoin sounds easy. All you do is buy a powerful computer, hook it up and watch while your stack of Bitcoin grows, right?.

It's a familiar situation for lots of people, especially since the financial crisis: you want to know more about economics. Perhaps you've gone to university and don't want to go back, or perhaps ...

This includes basic notions such as sets and functions: Properties of sets, definition and properties of functions; logarithms and exponentials: and their properties; basic series summations: ...

Birth of the free market The most famous book in economics is the Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776), the magnum opus of the Scottish philosopher-economist Adam Smith.