How to Teach Economics to Your Dog: A Quirky Introduction

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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.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. g., interesting discussion of how/why Denmark's generous unemployment benefits nevertheless cost the gov't. With the absence of a dog and an interest in going for walks along the streets and parkland near where I live, I bounded through the chapters. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.Over the course of 17 dog walks, it looks at different economic concepts and how they shape our everyday lives. Available after 3-20 days)In Your Dog Is Your Mirror, dog trainer Kevin Behan proposes a radical new model for understanding canine behavior: a dog’s behavior and emotion, indeed its very cognition,. Economics concepts can often be difficult to grasp, but the authors have done an admirable job of explaining them in plain language. Dr Rebecca Campbell has a PhD from the London School of Economics where she is currently a Fellow in the Management Department, and Director of Studies of the prestigious Global Masters in Management.

The reason is that the book employs a couple of interesting approaches to teaching would could be an abstruse subject. This is one of the few books on economics that works as a textbook while remaining actually readable! Students taking citizenship, politics, sociology and perhaps even history may well benefit from its accessible introduction to the field. Tap into the cosmic nature of your soul, discover your purpose and commit to being here on Earth with author of The Starseed Oracle, Rebecca Campbell.

Georgina Godwin speaks to Dr Rebecca Campbell and her husband, author Anthony McGowan, about their latest book, ‘How to Teach Economics to Your Dog’. Over the course of seventeen walks, Dr Rebecca Campbell chews over economic concepts and investigates how they apply to our lives–people and mutts alike. I appreciate the desire to keep this focused on economic theory but this was a fairly glaring omission to make if you are going to discuss global inequality.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. If you're looking for a unique way to learn a lot of the basics covered in a college-level economics course, this is a great purchase.A quirky introduction to economics" (on the front cover) is a good description of this book which is attempting to get a person with a reasonable interest in the subject more knowledgeable.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. It's a good survey of micro and macroeconomics, all explained in easy-to-understand terms (because it's being explained to a dog. Games like Dungeons and Dragons have never appealed to me, and much as I like maps and strange lands, the works of Tolkien leave me cold. However, my main gripe with the book - and the reason for dropping a star - is how the jargon was structured. So allow me to add here that, as a former teacher of Economics and someone who still has an interest (who doesn’t, in these straitened times?US journalist, novelist, translator and professor Maureen Freely joins Georgina Godwin in the studio.