Cartoon Introduction to Economics Vol. 2 : Macroeconomics

English

ISBN: 0809033615

EAN: 9780809033614

Category: Business & Economics / Economics / Macroeconomics/Comics & Graphic Novels / Nonfiction/

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Release Date: 12/20/2011

Synopsis: Once more bringing together Yoram Bauman, economist and standup comedian, and the award-winning illustrator Grady Klein, The Cartoon Introduction to Economics: Volume Two: Macroeconomicsagain delivers on the promise to provide you with the most digestible, readable, and humorous 225-page introduction to economics youll ever read. Whereas Volume One: Microeconomicsdealt with the optimizing individual, Volume Two: Macroeconomicsexplains 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 also illustrates the basics of the labor market and unemployment, inflation and debt, what the GDP is and measures, and the influence of government, trade, and technology on the economy. Along the way it covers the economics of global poverty, climate change, and reform of 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, this book is for you. And while walking you through an entire introductory macroeconomics course, its cartoon characterswith cameos from Nobel Prizewinning economists such as John Maynard Keynes and Paul Krugmantake the sting out of the subject.

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Cartoon Introduction to Economics Vol. 2 : Macroeconomics

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 1.0 inches

Width: 7.0 inches

Length: 10.0 inches

Weight: 13.86 oz

Pages: 240