The Cartoon Introduction to Economics, Volume II: Macroeconomics

Yoram Bauman

ISBN 10: 0809033615 / ISBN 13: 9780809033614

Edité par Farrar, Straus And Giroux Dez 2011, 2011

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Neuware - Need to understand today's economy This is the book for you. The Cartoon Introduction to Economics, Volume Two: Macroeconomics is the most accessible, intelligible, and humorous introduction to unemployment, inflation, and debt you'll ever read.Whereas Volume One: Microeconomics dealt with the optimizing individual, Volume Two: Macroeconomics explains the factors that affect the economy of an entire country, and indeed the planet. It explores the two big concerns of macroeconomics: how economies grow and why economies collapse. It illustrates the basics of the labor market and explains what the GDP is and what it measures, as well as the influence of government, trade, and technology on the economy. Along the way, it covers the economics of global poverty, climate change, and the business cycle. In short, if any of these topics have cropped up in a news story and caused you to wish you grasped the underlying basics, buy this book.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Cartoon Introduction to Economics, Volume II: Macroeconomics
• Éditeur: Farrar, Straus And Giroux Dez 2011
• Date de parution: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0809033615
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780809033614
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 254 L x 179 H x 22 P (en millimètres) 254 millimètres de largeur par 179 millimètres de hauteur par 22 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 474 grammes

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Need to understand today's economy? This is the book for you. The Cartoon Introduction to Economics, Volume Two: Macroeconomics is the most accessible, intelligible, and humorous introduction to unemployment, inflation, and debt you'll ever read.

Whereas Volume One: Microeconomics dealt with the optimizing individual, Volume Two: Macroeconomics explains the factors that affect the economy of an entire country, and indeed the planet. It explores the two big concerns of macroeconomics: how economies grow and why economies collapse. It illustrates the basics of the labor market and explains what the GDP is and what it measures, as well as the influence of government, trade, and technology on the economy. Along the way, it covers the economics of global poverty, climate change, and the business cycle. In short, if any of these topics have cropped up in a news story and caused you to wish you grasped the underlying basics, buy this book.

À propos des auteurs

An environmental economist at the University of Washington (and a part-time teacher at Seattle's Lakeside High School), Yoram Bauman, PhD, is the world's first and only stand-up economist.

Grady Klein is a cartoonist, an illustrator, and an animator. He is the coauthor and illustrator of The Cartoon Introduction to Economics: Volume One: Microeconomics and The Cartoon Introduction to Economics: Volume Two: Macroeconomics, and the creator of the Lost Colony series of graphic novels. He coauthored The Cartoon Introduction to Statistics with Alan Dabney. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with his wife and two children.