Product Description
by Tejvan Pettinger (Author)
Explore the fascinating world of Economics through its 50 essential ideas, brought to life with vivid, full-color graphics, illuminating diagrams, and engaging feature boxes in this highly-visual hardback guide.
How do labor markets work? Is it better to aim for inflation or full employment? How can developing countries escape the poverty trap? In this accessible and entertaining guide, readers can explore the key questions and theories that top economists have sought to answer, and gain valuable insights into the complex world of economics. Ranging from demand and supply to globalization and international trade to game theory, and featuring ideas from such esteemed economists as Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman, this essential guide will bring you up to speed on the core themes and theories of this great subject and help you form your own opinions. ABOUT THE SERIES: The 50 Essential Ideas series brings together entertaining, highly visual guides to different disciplines, from philosophy to physics. It explores the subject's 50 greatest ideas, giving readers an accessible overview of its defining theories and breakthroughs.Author Biography
Tejvan Pettinger studied economics at the University of Oxford and now teaches students at Greenes College. He has contributed articles to the Economic Review and is the author of Cracking Economics (2017). He also runs the popular website economicshelp.org.
Number of Pages: 208
Dimensions: 1.2 x 9.4 x 7.4 IN
Publication Date: January 02, 2024
