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The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Run or Ruin an Economy
Tim Harford
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Description for The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Run or Ruin an Economy
Paperback. Tim Harford returns as the Undercover Economist with an even bigger target in his sights: to explain how the whole world economy works. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 24. Weight in Grams: 294.
A million readers bought The Undercover Economist to get the lowdown on how economics works on a small scale, in our everyday lives. Since then, economics has become big news. Crises, austerity, riots, bonuses - all are in the headlines all the time. But how does this large-scale economic world really work? What would happen if we cancelled everyone's debt? How do you create a job? Will the BRIC countries take over the world? Asking - among many other things -- what the future holds for the Euro, why the banks are still paying record bonuses and where government borrowing will take us, in The Undercover Economist Strikes Back, Tim Harford returns with his trademark clarity and wit to explain what's really going on - and what it means for us all.
Product Details
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
299g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349138930
SKU
V9780349138930
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About Tim Harford
Tim Harford is a senior columnist for the Financial Times and the presenter of Radio 4's More or Less. He was the winner of the Bastiat Prize for economic journalism in 2006, and More or Less was commended for excellence in journalism by the Royal Statistical Society in 2010, 2011 and 2012. Harford lives in Oxford with his wife and three children, and is a visiting fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. His other books include The Undercover Economist, The Logic of Life and Adapt.
Reviews for The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Run or Ruin an Economy
Tim Harford is a brilliant explainer of economics . . . A superb guide, whatever your level of expertise
William Leith
Evening Standard
Tim Harford is a brilliant explainer of economics . . . beautifully clear . . . A superb guide
William Leith
Scotsman
Tim Harford is a riveting expositor of the field, lively and fair minded, and his books The Undercover Economist and its macroeconomic companion piece The Undercover Economist Strikes Back are excellent places to start, both because they are so interesting in themselves and also because they give a good initiation in how economists think and study these sorts of questions
John Lanchester Tim has a really exceptional talent for telling a simple and a very easily understood and yet still incredibly interesting story about economics
Planet Money
The Indicator
Every Tim Harford book is cause for celebration. He makes 'the dismal science' seem like an awful lot of fun
Malcolm Gladwell Our chief economic storyteller ... thanks to people such as Harford, the profession will gain a better informed audience
Independent
Clear-thinking and easy to read ... he has mastered the art of dealing with this subject without the use of a single diagram or mathematical equation
Sunday Times
Reading Harford is like finding yourself next to the funniest, smartest fellow at the party. It is such fun that readers will hardly notice that, by the end, they've mastered macroeconomics
Financial Times
An excellent primer for me, a non-economist who wants to understand the financial crisis
Simon Singh
Observer
William Leith
Evening Standard
Tim Harford is a brilliant explainer of economics . . . beautifully clear . . . A superb guide
William Leith
Scotsman
Tim Harford is a riveting expositor of the field, lively and fair minded, and his books The Undercover Economist and its macroeconomic companion piece The Undercover Economist Strikes Back are excellent places to start, both because they are so interesting in themselves and also because they give a good initiation in how economists think and study these sorts of questions
John Lanchester Tim has a really exceptional talent for telling a simple and a very easily understood and yet still incredibly interesting story about economics
Planet Money
The Indicator
Every Tim Harford book is cause for celebration. He makes 'the dismal science' seem like an awful lot of fun
Malcolm Gladwell Our chief economic storyteller ... thanks to people such as Harford, the profession will gain a better informed audience
Independent
Clear-thinking and easy to read ... he has mastered the art of dealing with this subject without the use of a single diagram or mathematical equation
Sunday Times
Reading Harford is like finding yourself next to the funniest, smartest fellow at the party. It is such fun that readers will hardly notice that, by the end, they've mastered macroeconomics
Financial Times
An excellent primer for me, a non-economist who wants to understand the financial crisis
Simon Singh
Observer