How to Teach Economics to Your Dog: A Quirky Introduction

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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. He was also shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal with Rook and won the Booktrust Teenage Prize and the Catalyst Award for Henry Tumour. A quirky introduction to economics" (on the front cover) is a good description of this book which is attempting to get a person with a reasonable interest in the subject more knowledgeable. However, my main gripe with the book - and the reason for dropping a star - is how the jargon was structured.

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Though I am not a dog person, I did find the format fun -- each basic microecon or macroecon lesson is framed as a walk on which she's taking her dog Monty to converse about these topics. But, overall I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and would consider reading the author's other "how to explain to your dog" books too because of it. I appreciate the desire to keep this focused on economic theory but this was a fairly glaring omission to make if you are going to discuss global inequality. 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. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file.

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! Dr Rebecca Campbell has a PhD from the London School of Economics where she is currently a Fellow in the Management Department, and Director of Studies of the prestigious Global Masters in Management.Economics concepts can often be difficult to grasp, but the authors have done an admirable job of explaining them in plain language. Relatively new terms such as Sub prime mortgages are explained well, as are older ones like ‘externalities’.

Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). If you're looking for a unique way to learn a lot of the basics covered in a college-level economics course, this is a great purchase. Great book about economics with UK examples and commentary and an “outsider” view of the US economics. US journalist, novelist, translator and professor Maureen Freely joins Georgina Godwin in the studio.On the surface, this would seem to be nothing more or less than an example of performance art presented as literature. My only gripe would be that in the discussion on why some countries have developed less than others there was no mention of the effect of imperialism. Explaining concepts, and THEN giving the name of them would have probably been easier - that, and maybe a rear glossary.

To welcome in the new year, we look back at one of our favourite conversations from 2023, with Lydia Sandgren. Overall a very good quality service from this seller and I would not hesitate to recommend this seller. He was also shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal with Rook and won the Booktrust Teenage Prize and the Catalyst Award for Henry Tumour . The reason is that the book employs a couple of interesting approaches to teaching would could be an abstruse subject.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? I am thrilled to announce that my book - How to teach Economics to Your Dog (written with my husband Anthony McGowan) has just been published. 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. This is one of the first textbooks to explore the phenomenon of Influencer Marketing and how it fits within marketing communications to build brands and their communities.