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- Product code: 15760
- ISBN: 1861975066,
ISBN13: 9781861975065,
192 pages, paperback
Published by Profile Books on 2003
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Description of Free Lunch |
This is the perfect introduction to economics. It is not some dreary textbook, but an explanation of how economics works and how it can help to solve all sorts of interesting problems. Written for the lay reader, this book makes the economics pages of the newspaper intelligible, the financial pages interesting and answers questions all of us worry about, like how can house prices carry on rising so much? Is there no limit to the increase in their prices? Set out like a good lunch-time conversation, the book follows the course of a meal, with starters (the introduction), main course and then the discussion which one always has at the end of a good meal. And along the way there are a few guest speakers (Adam Smith, Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes) who make appearances to enliven the meal and entertain and inform us, the diners.This is a clever, completely original and witty introduction to economics. It costs less than even the cheapest meal and is far more satisfying than even the most gourmet banquet.
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Contents of Free Lunch |
1. Appetizer
2. Starters
3. Main course (1)
4. Adam - but no apple
5. Main course (2)
6. Classical recipes
7. Cordon bleu business
8. Mulled Marx
9. Paying the bill
10. Keynes gets cooking
11. Bread and money
12. Just desserts - the Americans
13. Arguing over coffee
Bite-size glossary
Post-prandial reading
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About David Smith |
David Smith is Economics Editor of The Sunday Times. He has a number of other books under his belt and is regularly on the radio and television, commentating on economics.
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