How to Teach Economics to Your Dog: A Quirky Introduction

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Students taking Citizenship, Politics, Sociology and even some History courses would benefit from having an accessible guide to economics concepts. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. With over 6 million of the world’s best eBooks to choose from, Kobo offers you a whole world of reading. Tap into the cosmic nature of your soul, discover your purpose and commit to being here on Earth with author of The Starseed Oracle, Rebecca Campbell.

An excellent book about the principles and functions of economics, which are very easy for the lay-economist to digest. This is one of the few books on economics that works as a textbook while remaining actually readable!

Some concepts are usually difficult to grasp, but the authors have done an admirable job using plain language.

For those who haven't approached the subject before, this book allows them to dip their toes in, and the intriguing concepts drag can one in.

On the surface, this would seem to be nothing more or less than an example of performance art presented as literature. 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! There's enough information here to help you make sense of Chancellors' budget statements, and try evaluating how effective their measures will be. 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.

Georgina Godwin speaks to Dr Rebecca Campbell and her husband, author Anthony McGowan, about their latest book, ‘How to Teach Economics to Your Dog’. This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees. Georgina Godwin is joined by two authors who are both on a quest to find new ways to listen – and they invite you to do the same. 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. However, my main gripe with the book - and the reason for dropping a star - is how the jargon was structured.Economics concepts can often be difficult to grasp, but the authors have done an admirable job of explaining them in plain language. The reason is that the book employs a couple of interesting approaches to teaching would could be an abstruse subject. So allow me to add here that, as a former teacher of Economics and someone who still has an interest (who doesn’t, in these straitened times? Newer terms, such as 'sub-prime mortgages' are explained well, as are older standbys like 'externalities'. g., interesting discussion of how/why Denmark's generous unemployment benefits nevertheless cost the gov't.