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Free Lunch. Easily Digestible Economics
by
David Smith
The economy has never been so relevant to so many people as it is now, and it's vital that we understand how it affects our lives. 'There's no such thing as a free lunch' is the one phrase everyone has heard from economics - not even for bankers. But why not? What does economics tell us about the price of lunch - and everything else? Free Lunch makes the economics pages of...more
Paperback, 192 pages
Published
January 1st 2009
by Profile Books
(first published 2003)
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مرة اخرى مع كتب تبسط علم الاقتصاد اليوم نحن مع وجبة دسمة يجتمع فيها ديفيد سميث على مائدة فيها أهم 5 من علماء الاقتصاد يأخذنا سميث في جولة سريعة على أبرز نظرياتهم ورأيهم في قضايا الاقتصاد الكلي .. سواء كنت متمرس بالاقتصاد ام طالب علم سيكون هذا الكتاب خيار جيد لك
I started reading this a while and gave up because I didn't like all the food analogies at the start. I picked it up 6 months later and persevered and found that he soon drops all the culinary metaphors after the first chapter and it turns into a really interesting overview of economics and its history.
Would definitely recommend it as an introduction to economics.
Would definitely recommend it as an introduction to economics.
Well written and clear but I could not digest it all, more likely my lack of real interest than any failing in the book. I may refer back to it. I skimmed the last chapter.
Not a bad read. Introduced some good info but I felt it was a bit scattered and difficult to follow at times. I almost wished, on occasion, for the some of the charts and graphs that the author made a point of avoiding.
Economics 101 in a nutshell.
Economics 101. Great read
I would certainly recommend this for anybody who wants to learn about economics but doesn't know where to begin. I plan to read some of the reading list that is mentioned at the back so that i can keep learning
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