How to Teach Economics to Your Dog: A Quirky Introduction

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He was also shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal with Rook and won the Booktrust Teenage Prize and the Catalyst Award for Henry Tumour . Students taking citizenship, politics, sociology and perhaps even history may well benefit from its accessible introduction to the field. Explaining concepts, and THEN giving the name of them would have probably been easier - that, and maybe a rear glossary. Along the way we meet some of the great thinkers from Adam Smith to Thomas Piketty, and ponder questions such as: What does one man's project to make a toaster have to tell us about why markets are so important? Great book about economics with UK examples and commentary and an “outsider” view of the US economics.

John Crace, brilliant Guardian political columnist, kindly suggested that the Chancellor might like to flick through, before plotting a route out of our current difficulties. I have read many introductions to economics, none as entertaining and readily accessible as this one. Georgina Godwin speaks to Paul Lynch, the author of ‘Prophet Song’, winner of this year’s Booker Prize. There’s enough information here to enable you to make sense of Chancellors’ budget statements and to evaluate how likely their measures are to be effective. Over the course of seventeen walks, Dr Rebecca Campbell chews over economic concepts and investigates how they apply to our lives - people and mutts alike.The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. For those who haven't approached the subject before, this book allows them to dip their toes in, and the intriguing concepts drag can one in. Some concepts are usually difficult to grasp, but the authors have done an admirable job using plain language. It's a good survey of micro and macroeconomics, all explained in easy-to-understand terms (because it's being explained to a dog. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Economics concepts can often be difficult to grasp, but the authors have done an admirable job of explaining them in plain language … This is one of the few books on economics that works as a textbook while remaining actually readable! We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Georgina Godwin sits down with the six authors shortlisted for The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2023: Hannah Barnes, Tania Branigan, Christopher Clark, Jeremy Eichler, Jennifer Homans and John Vaillant. Students taking Citizenship, Politics, Sociology and even some History courses would benefit from having an accessible guide to economics concepts.

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To welcome in the new year, we look back at one of our favourite conversations from 2023, with Lydia Sandgren.Often Monty's input is a minor joke about food or bones, or just asking her to define a jargon term, but occasionally he gets off some edgy lines, e. It focused on very important topics, using real world examples while remaining largely a-political, and using the dog as a platform to investigate each subject was very nicely done.

Over the course of eighteen walks Dr Rebecca Campbell and Anthony McGowan chew over economic concepts and investigate how they apply to our lives – people and mutts alike. Over the course of 17 dog walks, it looks at different economic concepts and how they shape our everyday lives. Relatively new terms such as Sub prime mortgages are explained well, as are older ones like ‘externalities’. It was frustrating to see explanations laid out quite well - although the dog-related metaphors sometimes proved more confusing than helpful - only to then have to refer back to the term they were describing in the first place.

However, painless refreshers can be fun, and some of the history I was only vaguely familiar with (quick, what did David Ricardo have to say on comparative advantage and implications for free trade?