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A Little History of Economics
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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Summary
A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and the ideas of great thinkers in the field.
What causes poverty? Are economic crises inevitable under capitalism? Is government intervention in an economy a helpful approach or a disastrous idea? The answers to such basic economic questions matter to everyone, yet the unfamiliar jargon and math of economics can seem daunting. This clear, accessible, and even humorous book is ideal for young listeners new to economics and to all listeners who seek a better understanding of the full sweep of economic history and ideas.
Economic historian Niall Kishtainy organizes short, chronological chapters that center on big ideas and events. He recounts the contributions of key thinkers including Adam Smith, Ricardo, Marx, Keynes, and others, while examining topics ranging from the invention of money and the rise of agrarianism to the Great Depression, entrepreneurship, environmental destruction, inequality, and behavioral economics. The result is a uniquely enjoyable volume that succeeds in illuminating the economic ideas and forces that shape our world.
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- dan
- 03-02-23
Economics
Great book to understand economics… Understanding that economics even with education and systems is still effectively useless
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- Alex
- 27-04-17
An excellent introduction to Economics!
This book is a brilliant introductory guide to the study of economics and economic theorists. Over 40 chapters it covers a different topic and the economist(s) that based their work on that topic. I think that this book is great for someone who wants to better understand the complex world around them, whilst also giving a good foundation to anyone who wants to study economics academically.
It was also very well narrated.
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- Amazonian
- 04-11-22
Just brilliant
I really like the story telling style of delivery. It was as though you were being taken through time, where you bump into different characters at different locations, then realised that despite the distance travelled, all the actors are not too dissimilar in that human beings are rarely as unique as we think we are.
Really enjoyed listening to the audiobook for the second time.
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- Craig E.
- 09-04-23
Great content, badly narrated
With a different narrator, this would have been great. Very condescending voice which becomes increasingly annoying.
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- Ruairi O'Ceallaigh
- 20-05-23
Good Listen; Very Odd Narration
Any given mainstream book on economics will be unfair to socialist countries in my view. A whole chapter could be devoted in this book to the effects of catastrophic and violent American intervention in Chile, Grenada, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and how that impacted their economic growth; rather than a passing sentence or two.
It reads as smug self-assurances of capitalism being a natural or superior system when it is neither. Other than that it’s an interesting listen. A lot of time is given to unusual characters like Veblen and it’s quite enjoyable.
The narrator could do without sounding like a bored imperial officer ordering a massacre. Extremely odd intonation.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-08-19
excellent comprehensive review of economics.
great. but now I require 15 words to complete this review. how tiresome is that?
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- Anonymous User
- 03-03-23
Good Primer
The last chapter, which deal with climate change, almost ruins it. Good book otherwise.
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- Federico
- 29-03-19
Great intro
Great introduction to economics! The book is a gentle tour across the main ideas in economics
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- Z.
- 30-08-21
EYE OPENER.
There is much more to Economics than you think.
Neither Capitalism nor Communism is the answer.
We need a third solution. It could be Socialism.
No country ever have tried that one.
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- Jason Solloway
- 21-09-22
Where is Thomas Sowell.
A great whistle stop tour of economics and I was surprised not to hear about Thomas Sowell…… a trick missed I thinks.
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