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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Global Economics
Think outside the borders.
Global economics affects every aspect of our lives. Free trade agreements, tariffs, terrorism, trade deficits, international debt, global warming, OPEC, outsourcing, and sweat shops are just some of the forces driving our world, food supply, jobs, and future. The Complete Idiot?s Guide® to Global Economics provides the key to understanding the various facts, figures, policies, and practices that offer insight into this dynamic subject.
Global economics affects every aspect of our lives. Free trade agreements, tariffs, terrorism, trade deficits, international debt, global warming, OPEC, outsourcing, and sweat shops are just some of the forces driving our world, food supply, jobs, and future. The Complete Idiot?s Guide® to Global Economics provides the key to understanding the various facts, figures, policies, and practices that offer insight into this dynamic subject.
- GenresEconomics
272 pages, Paperback
First published February 5, 2007
About the author
Craig Hovey
30 books3 followersCraig Hovey is Associate Professor of Religion at Ashland University in Ashland, OH and is executive director of the Ashland Center for Nonviolence. He is the author of numerous books including Bearing True Witness: Truthfulness in Christian Practice (2011), Nietzsche and Theology (2008), To Share in the Body: A Theology of Martyrdom for Today's Church (2008), Speak Thus: Christian Language in Church and World (2008), and co-editor of An Eerdmans Reader in Contemporary Political Theology (2011).
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April 28, 2021
I actually learned a lot from this and would highly recommend it. The book is what it says it is, so if you've taken a global economics class in college you won't learn anything. If, however, you got a super-useful degree like theology, there's going to be a lot here for you.
Mostly, I was intrigued by how many documented, measurably successful functions of global economy are at least somewhat counter-intuitive. Secondly, I was surprised by how many nuggets of "conventional wisdom" about economics are circulating everyday although they are demonstrably false. Specific example: we haven't actually ever lost any jobs in America to overseas production. Don't believe that? Then you might just enjoy the book!
It's a little dry but the chapters are short. I took a long time to read it, just taking on a chapter before bed every few days, and in that sense it's an easy read. At the end of each chapter are really useful bullet-point reminders of what Hovey wants to be sure you got from the material. As a nerd, I enjoyed referring back to these later.
Mostly, I was intrigued by how many documented, measurably successful functions of global economy are at least somewhat counter-intuitive. Secondly, I was surprised by how many nuggets of "conventional wisdom" about economics are circulating everyday although they are demonstrably false. Specific example: we haven't actually ever lost any jobs in America to overseas production. Don't believe that? Then you might just enjoy the book!
It's a little dry but the chapters are short. I took a long time to read it, just taking on a chapter before bed every few days, and in that sense it's an easy read. At the end of each chapter are really useful bullet-point reminders of what Hovey wants to be sure you got from the material. As a nerd, I enjoyed referring back to these later.
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