"EVERYONE SEES WHAT YOU APPEAR TO BE, FEW EXPERIENCE WHAT YOU REALLY ARE." The Prince stunned Europe at the time of its publication with its defense of relentless strategies on how to gain power and its disregard of traditional forms of morality. Machiavelli was inspired by his own experience of working for the swirling Florentine republic, dismissing old principles of political theory and accepting the intricate, ephemeral composition of politics. Machiavelli was famous for centuries with The Prince, his witty and derisive work about power liaisons. The main topics of this ground-breaking, and prominent, writer is that being adaptable is the way to being successful and that efficient leadership is sometimes only attained by sacrificing morality.

"Introduction to Economics" is the first course that introduces you to the fundamentals of economic reasoning. It involves rationality, mathematics and experience. Today, the notion no longer seems to be convincing. Generally, economics revolves around a central concept called homo economicus which refers to a prototype of a rational, economic human being. In other words, it describes an individual who acts independently and who tries to match limited resources to unlimited needs. Nonetheless, this rational being does not exist anymore. We are living in a world full of people who spend more than they earn, confuse needs with desires, "sacrifice their future happiness for familiar unhappiness". How did we become like this? When and why did the economics lose this rational human being? What ...