Monday 25 June 2012

LSE fantasy share game

Hullo everyone, I've recently joined this LSE fantasy share game (here's a link for anyone who wants to join http://game.lse.co.uk/). It's basically a simulation of the stock market, the London Stock Exchange specifically and it's open at certain times throughout the day, following Greenwich mean time. For anyone who wants to play the stock market when they're an adult or now, I would say this is probably one of the best ways to prepare yourself for it, I personally find it enjoyable (If there's anyone who wants to contact me in the game, my uusername is krumister). LSE are also offering prizes for monthly winners first prize: £150 second prize: £100 third prize: £50.

Moving on, if there are any students who want to expand their knowledge on economics there is a list of books that I suggest you should read such as:


1. The Undercover Economist
2. Freakonomics
3. The Truth About Markets
4. The Armchair Economist
5. The Mind of the Market
6. Why Most Things Fail
7. The Worldly Philosophers 
8. Capitalism and Freedom
9. The Wealth of Nations
10. Tipping the velvet
11. The misfortunes of prosperity
12. The elusive quest for growth: Economist's adventures and misadventures in the tropics
13. The bottom Billion: why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it
14. Globalization and its Discontents 
15. Making Globalization Work 
16. The Dragon and the Elephant 
17. The Age of Turbulence 
18. The Accidental Theorist 
19. The Roaring Nineties 
20. Butterfly Economics 
21. Everlasting Lightbulbs 
22. In Defence of Globalization 
23. Development as Freedom 
24. Capitalism and Freedom 
25. Peddling Prosperity 
26. Eat the Rich 
27. A Random Walk Down Wall Street 
28. Thinking Strategically 
29. Reinventing the Bazaar 
30. Lives of the Laureates 
31. The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008
32. Free Lunch 
33. The World is Flat 
34. The Next Global Stage
35. Wikinomics
36. Bad Samaritans 
37. Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff 
38. Rethinking International Trade 
39. Game Theory and Economic Modelling 
40. A Theory of Economic 
41. The Economic Naturalist 
42. The Affluent society
43. Keynes and After 
44. Road to Serfdom by Hayek
45. New ideas from dead economists



I will soon get Freakonomics myself and tell you my verdict on it as soon as possible, some of these books will be difficult to understand and even harder to grasp the concepts, but it requires nothing more than a determined mind to comprehend.

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