The Economics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

love this book. great book quality

If you are really struggling to make head or tell of all the economic mess we seem to be slipping into every day then, this is the book you need. It beautifully describes all the micro and macro economic concepts along with the reason behind their development, that too with beautiful images!

This is best book to understand Economics thought and helpful to improve our knowledge about Economics. Thanks all to make sach type of book.

Includes every economic concept. Perfect book for quick understanding

A worthy book for those interested in the subject. And at affordable price.

Good Book for Beginners, Paper Quality is Excellent, Language is Easy, have some interesting topics about history of economics also. I would recommend this book for Beginners only.

The book is awesome for beginners or for students who are not from Economics background. I personally felt that too much money is spent on its binding and paper quality and printing quality. Utility that I got from this book is not enough to recommend this book. But this looks cool in your personal library, I would say that this book is luxury good material for me.

its just a timeline of various economic studies and events.

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Dorling Kindersley ist bekannt für seine reich illustrierten Reiseführer und genau das ist dieses Buch: Ein flott geschriebener Reiseführer durch die Werke berühmter Wirtschaftswissenschaftler von Adam Smith über Keynes bis Marx zu den Neoliberalen wie Milton Friedman. Anhand der wichtigen Werke der Ökonomen wird die Entwicklung der Wirtschaftswissenschaft beschrieben und gleichzeitig die Verbindung zur Entwicklung der Gesellschaft geschlagen. Absolut zu empfehlen, vor allem weil es auch Lust macht, sich mit den vorgestellten Büchern näher zu befassen. Ich durfte mich im Studium mit Wirtschaftwissenschaft befassen müssen und habe das Fach gehasst. Die sehr theoretische Bildung mathematischer Modelle ist schon abschreckend. Schade, denn dieses Buch zeigt, wie die Ökonomen die Welt verändert haben (und es im Zeitalter der Globalisierung immer mehr tun). Daher ist das ein sehr gutes Buch, um aktuelle Entwicklungen zu verstehen und in den historischen Kontext einordnen zu können. Das Buch ist für Leser mit Schulenglisch-Kenntnissen gut verständlich und auch gut geeignet, um die rostigen Sprachkenntnisse aufzufrischen. Wegen der Illustrationen ist ein Tablet mit Kindle-App sicher besser zum Lesen geeignet als der klassische Kindle mit SW-Display. Für den Preis ein echtes Schnäppchen.

I’ve read some comments saying “it doesn’t provide you with much information” well, I might have the answer to that. this book was not meant to profoundly teach you everything about economics. And I use the word profoundly for a reason. You forgot what Ricardo’s take on international trade was? You’re not sure who was the first economist who used math to prove economic theories? What about the physiocrats? There you go, just like a big bunch of study flashcards put together. Well-written, with graphs and charts, timelines of events, and biographies. The book cover the most important topics, theories, authors, thinkers, and events related to the subject.

Good book

Presented in broadly chronological order, this is a terrifically readable encyclopedia-like introduction to a very wide range of ideas and concepts in economics, from the emergence of basic classical economic ideas right up to date including the credit crunch causes and the more recent research in behavioural economics. The style is simple and well laid out and crucially the book managed to neither over-estimate nor under-estimate the intelligence of the readers. It uses simple language but is never patronizing. It certainly isn't a text book per se - and the mechanics of, say microeconomics, is missing but it is a terrifically useful introduction to the key ideas and you get a real sense of how thought progresses over time. The only thing that I would change would be to add to the indexing. Each "article" or chapter is placed within a time period and then split into areas of "focus" - eg Growth and Development or Welfare Economics. It would have been helpful to have a page listing all chapters on Growth and Development in this example. But that's a minor quibble and each chapter does note where other areas of interest can be located in the book. Each chapter puts the idea into "context" (focus, key thinker, thought before and after), had a clear flow diagram to explain the logic of the ideas and a solid introduction to the idea, often including a brief precis of the main economist and his/her works. It's beautifully laid out and really a very useful reference book. Ideal for those with a casual interest as well as students. GCSE students and AS / A level students in particular will find really good stuff here, but undergraduates too will probably learn something and if nothing else it will direct them to the works that they should be reading. Highly recommended.