Undercover Economist Strikes Back
how to run or ruin an economy
$39.53
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
25 August 2014
Summary
The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: Decoding the Global Economy
A million readers learned the basics of economics with The Undercover Economist, exploring how it shapes our daily lives. Now, economics is front-page news, from crises and austerity to riots and bonuses. But how does the global economy truly function?
In The Undercover Economist Strikes Back, Tim Harford returns with his signature clarity and wit to demystify the complexities of the modern …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349138930 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0349138931 |
| Author: | Tim Harford |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 25 August 2014 |
| Weight: | 284g |
| Dimensions: | 118mm x 193mm |
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Our chief economic storyteller … thanks to people such as Harford, the profession will gain a better informed audience
Every Tim Harford book is cause for celebration. He makes ‘the dismal science’ seem like an awful lot of fun
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
About The Author
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.
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