The Cartoon Guide to Economics
Will be published approx. on 25. February 2027
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-06-337674-8 (ISBN)
Description
A comprehensive and illustrated 21st-century primer on the basics of economics-if you think "monopsonies" is just the way a drunk person says "monopolies," that subsidies are cities beneath a city, or that gross domestic product refers to the manure market, then you need The Cartoon Guide to Economics to demystify the macro and micro!
Award-winning, New York Times bestselling, Harvard-educated cartoonist Larry Gonick returns to supply his audience's demand with a comprehensive and illustrated primer on economics.
Gonick illustrates how the seed concept of "making decisions under scarcity" blooms and branches into all of the ideas that make up modern economics-both the micro concepts that describe our everyday interactions (like rational choice, game theory, and market failures) and the macro material that rules the headlines and guides government policy (like GDP, inequality, unemployment, inflation, and interest rates).
In The Cartoon Guide to Economics, you'll find illustrated and entertaining deep-dives into:
* The birth and evolution of economics, from the gift economy of cavepeople to coinage and paper money to the digitized globalism of modern times
* The basics of supply and demand explained via the all-important donut economy
* The reason why having some unemployment isn't always a bad thing (yes, really-and no, that doesn't mean you can quit your job)
* Displaying the complicated mathematics of economics with crystal-clear graphs and graphics
Gonick's wry wit and humorous examples-coupled with his legendary cartooning skills and bolstered by the brain of Vassar economics professor Ben Ho-distill these dense and sometimes difficult topics into material that's relatable, easy to digest, and fun to read. Students and professors, as well as the casually curious, will emerge with a deeper understanding of the core principles of economics, and Gonick will-somehow, impossibly-make them laugh along the way.
Award-winning, New York Times bestselling, Harvard-educated cartoonist Larry Gonick returns to supply his audience's demand with a comprehensive and illustrated primer on economics.
Gonick illustrates how the seed concept of "making decisions under scarcity" blooms and branches into all of the ideas that make up modern economics-both the micro concepts that describe our everyday interactions (like rational choice, game theory, and market failures) and the macro material that rules the headlines and guides government policy (like GDP, inequality, unemployment, inflation, and interest rates).
In The Cartoon Guide to Economics, you'll find illustrated and entertaining deep-dives into:
* The birth and evolution of economics, from the gift economy of cavepeople to coinage and paper money to the digitized globalism of modern times
* The basics of supply and demand explained via the all-important donut economy
* The reason why having some unemployment isn't always a bad thing (yes, really-and no, that doesn't mean you can quit your job)
* Displaying the complicated mathematics of economics with crystal-clear graphs and graphics
Gonick's wry wit and humorous examples-coupled with his legendary cartooning skills and bolstered by the brain of Vassar economics professor Ben Ho-distill these dense and sometimes difficult topics into material that's relatable, easy to digest, and fun to read. Students and professors, as well as the casually curious, will emerge with a deeper understanding of the core principles of economics, and Gonick will-somehow, impossibly-make them laugh along the way.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 187 mm
Weight
295 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-06-337674-8 (9780063376748)
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LARRY GONICK has been creating comics that explain math, history, science, and other big subjects for more than forty years. His Cartoon Guide series has enjoyed immense success. He has been a calculus instructor at Harvard (where he earned his BA and MA in mathematics) and a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. He was staff cartoonist for Muse magazine.
Larry Gonick's books have sold millions of copies worldwide and have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. He lives in San Francisco, California.
Ben Ho is a professor of economics at Vassar College and author of the book Why Trust Matters: An Economist's Guide to the Ties that Bind Us. Ho applies behavioral economics, game theory, and experiments to tackle topics like apologies, identity, inequality, and climate change. His research has appeared in outlets like Management Science and Nature: Human Behavior. Ho holds seven degrees from Stanford and MIT in economics, education, political science, math, computer science, and electrical engineering.
Larry Gonick's books have sold millions of copies worldwide and have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. He lives in San Francisco, California.
Ben Ho is a professor of economics at Vassar College and author of the book Why Trust Matters: An Economist's Guide to the Ties that Bind Us. Ho applies behavioral economics, game theory, and experiments to tackle topics like apologies, identity, inequality, and climate change. His research has appeared in outlets like Management Science and Nature: Human Behavior. Ho holds seven degrees from Stanford and MIT in economics, education, political science, math, computer science, and electrical engineering.