Economics Explained
Harley Hahn is the author of 32 books that have collectively sold over two million copies. His latest book is Harley Hahn's Guide to Unix and Linux, a college/university computer science textbook published by McGraw-Hill Higher Education.
Among his other accomplishments, Hahn is the best-selling Internet author of all time, and three of his books have been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Hahn's work (including a complete set of all his books) is archived by the Special Collections Department of the library at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Hahn has a degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of Waterloo (Canada), and a graduate degree in computer science from the University of California at San Diego. He also studied medicine at the University of Toronto Medical School.
Hahn has written numerous articles, essays, and stories on a wide variety of topics, including economics, technology, computers, the Internet, culture, romance, science, medicine, and money. Some of these are posted on his website.
You Can Be Part of the 1 Percent
Joining the Elite Is Possible, If You Really Want To
Which route would you choose? To an economist, the answer is obvious. Read story.
Money Desensitization
Cultivate Awareness
The moment you enter the marketplace, you are being manipulated far more than you realize. Read story.
How the U.S. Federal Reserve Creates and Destroys Money
Bonds Are Only Part of It
One of the Fed's daily jobs is to maintain the money supply at the level it deems best. Read story.
Love and Economics
How to Avoid a St. Valentine's Day Massacre
When applied properly, the fundamental principles of economics can significantly enhance the quality of an intimate relationship, especially on Valentine's Day. Read story.
How to Think About Money
It's Powerful, but Not Your Go-To Source for Security, Comfort, Power, and Hope
If you are going to be happy and content, you are going to have to come to terms with money. Indeed, the ebb and flow of money, in and out of your hands over the years, is one of the most important factors affecting your happiness. Read story.
What Is Money?
The Grease That Skids The Tracks of Economies
It sounds like a simple question, but like a lot of simple questions, this one gets more and more slippery as you try to pin down the answer. Read story.
Time and Money
Why Time Sense Is So Important to the Bailing Out of Southern Europe
In the aftermath of the 2007-2009 economic contraction, it became apparent that virtually all the European countries with serious economic problems were clustered along the north shore of the Mediterranean Sea. Read story.
The Stock Market and Faith
Value Judgements
To many people, the stock market is a mysterious and unpredictable paramour who will reward us if we invest well and punish us for making poor choices (or for having bad luck). Read story.
Why Occupy Los Angeles Should Occupy Your Heart
What Would Thomas Jefferson Have Thought?
As much as we like to think that our opinions are our own, most of what we believe is absorbed from the society in which we live. Read story.
I Have Seen the Future and It Is Leigh
The New Cool
In the 1950s, being cool was for the chosen few: those who could swim with the popular culture but somehow remain detached, watching from the sidelines with ironic disdain. Read story.
Occupy the Future
How Do We Make Sense of All This?
Liberty Camp, protesting the negative effects of corporate power, was established in Manhattan's financial district on the 224th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution. Read story.
The End of the Gold Standard
It Began with a Run on the Banks
In 1933, much of the world, including the U.S. and many European countries, was on the "gold standard," which meant that paper money could be exchanged for gold. Read story.
How Much Money Is There in the United States?
Federal Reserve Economists Count It Weekly
Nearly 90 percent of it is not in the form of cash. (Remember this the next time you hear someone talk about how the government "prints more money" whenever they want.) Read story.
When Will the Economy Recover?
We Get What We Wait For
Our economics columnist translates the OECD's latest report from econo-speak to English. Read story.
What Is a Recession?
The Recession That Isn't — Or Is It?"
Over the long term, economic changes come in cycles, in which a period of "expansion" is followed by a period of "contraction." Read story.
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