Economics: The User's Guide
  • Published: 25 June 2014
  • ISBN: 9780718197032
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $22.99
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Economics: The User's Guide

A Pelican Introduction

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25 Jun 2014
EBook
1 May 2014
Audiobook
31 Jan 2019
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A Pelican introduction to economics that shows why we need not - indeed should not - leave it to the experts alone

What is economics?
How does the global economy work?
What do different economic theories tell us about the world?

In Economics: The User's Guide, bestselling author Ha-Joon Chang explains how the global economy works, and why anyone can understand the dismal science. Unlike many economists who claim there is only one way of 'doing economics', he introduces readers to a wide range of economic theories, from classical to Keynesian, revealing how they all have their strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. By ignoring the received wisdom, and exposing the myriad forces that shape our financial fate, Chang provides the tools that every responsible citizen needs to understand - and address - our current economic woes.
  • Published: 25 June 2014
  • ISBN: 9780718197032
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Ha-Joon Chang

Born in South Korea, Ha-Joon Chang is a specialist in development economics and Reader in the Political Economy of Development at the University of Cambridge. In 2005, Chang was awarded the Wassily Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. He is author of Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective (2002), which won the 2003 Gunnar Myrdal Prize, and Bad Samaritans: Rich Nations, Poor Policies and the Threat to the Developing World (2007).

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Praise for Economics: The User's Guide

Page turning... A fascinating, hurtling explanation of everything... You could use it as a primer, a reference book, a brief history; it is all these things... It reflects the urgent generosity of a thinker whose depth of understanding is matched by a desire to see us all understand... Ha-Joon Chang's wealth is in his knowledge, perceptiveness, insight and vision. And he can't give it away fast enough. It flies off him like the seeds of a dandelion

Zoe Williams, The Guardian

Brilliant... Chang's lightness of touch makes often dry subject matter very readable... The first section is a page-turning history, the second a call to arms about how to apply economics in the real world using simple, everyday examples

Financial Times
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