The Cartoon Introduction to Economics: Volume Two: Macroeconomics

作者：Bauman, Yoram

出版社: Hill and Wang (2011年12月20日)

丛书名: The Cartoon Introduction to Economics

平装: 240页

语种： 英语

ISBN: 0809033615

条形码: 9780809033614

商品尺寸: 17.6 x 1.8 x 25 cm

商品重量: 463 g

ASIN: 0809033615

内容简介

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.

媒体推荐

The major concepts of macroeconomics are broken down with wit, verve, and clarity in this excellent follow-up to The Cartoon Introduction to Economics: Vol. 1: Microeconomics . . . This clever, lucid, and lighthearted book is a godsend to anyone who needs a simple but complete primer on the ins and outs of economics.

——Publishers Weekly

People don't usually chuckle over unemployment, inflation, and recessions. But they'll get plenty of laughs out of this book--and a good introduction to macro too.

——Eric Maskin, Nobel Laureate in Economics

If you don't want to cry about the state of the economy, why not laugh instead? This book is an ideal introduction to macroeconomics for anybody who thinks they ought to understand what's happening around them but is put off by dense text and economics jargon.

——Diane Coyle, author of The Economics of Enough

Bauman [has] an insightful philosophical bent and the natural inclinations of an educator, in the best sense of that term.

作者简介

A freelance cartoonist, illustrator, and animator, Grady Klein is the creator of the Lost Colony series of graphic novels.

An environmental economist at the University of Washington, Yoram Bauman, Ph.D., is the world's first and only stand-up economist.