How to Teach Economics to Your Dog: A Quirky Introduction

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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. Along the way we meet some of the great thinkers from Adam Smith to Thomas Piketty, and ponder questions such as: What does one man's project to make a toaster have to tell us about why markets are so important? g., interesting discussion of how/why Denmark's generous unemployment benefits nevertheless cost the gov't.

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. 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. 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.

Nevertheless, this is one of the few books on Economics that both works as a textbook and is actually readable! 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,.

Though I am not a dog person, I did find the format fun -- each basic microecon or macroecon lesson is framed as a walk on which she's taking her dog Monty to converse about these topics.I understand I can change my preference through my account settings or unsubscribe directly from any marketing communications at any time. Georgina Godwin sits down with the six authors shortlisted for The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2023: Hannah Barnes, Tania Branigan, Christopher Clark, Jeremy Eichler, Jennifer Homans and John Vaillant. 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.