How to Teach Economics to Your Dog: A Quirky Introduction

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The use of Monty the dog as a way to both summarise and challenge the narrator is clever as well as being humourous in parts.

An excellent book about the principles and functions of economics, which are very easy for the lay-economist to digest. There’s enough information here to enable you to make sense of Chancellors’ budget statements and to evaluate how likely their measures are to be effective. However, my main gripe with the book - and the reason for dropping a star - is how the jargon was structured. He was also shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal with Rook and won the Booktrust Teenage Prize and the Catalyst Award for Henry Tumour. This is one of the first textbooks to explore the phenomenon of Influencer Marketing and how it fits within marketing communications to build brands and their communities.

Explaining concepts, and THEN giving the name of them would have probably been easier - that, and maybe a rear glossary. I have read many introductions to economics, none as entertaining and readily accessible as this one. Newer terms, such as 'sub-prime mortgages' are explained well, as are older standbys like 'externalities'. 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!

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