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. 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. This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees. With over 6 million of the world’s best eBooks to choose from, Kobo offers you a whole world of reading.

He was also shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal with Rook and won the Booktrust Teenage Prize and the Catalyst Award for Henry Tumour. 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,. An excellent book about the principles and functions of economics, which are very easy for the lay-economist to digest.

If, like Monty (and me) you are interested in this stuff but generally can't hang in there with the math needed for advanced econ courses, a lot of these all-verbal lessons will be familiar. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Newer terms, such as 'sub-prime mortgages' are explained well, as are older standbys like 'externalities'. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

So allow me to add here that, as a former teacher of Economics and someone who still has an interest (who doesn’t, in these straitened times? 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. To welcome in the new year, we look back at one of our favourite conversations from 2023, with Lydia Sandgren.

Georgina Godwin interviews former editor in chief of Bloomsbury Publishing, Alexandra Pringle, who held the post for twenty years. Along the way we meet some of the great thinkers from Adam Smith to Thomas Piketty, and ponder questions such as: What on earth does quantitative easing mean? I suppose to use it as a textbook a teacher would have to supplement quite a bit with homework drilling down on the quantitative material that is missing, but as a supplementary reading or something for a general education course for non-majors it might work well.

He was also shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal with Rook and won the Booktrust Teenage Prize and the Catalyst Award for Henry Tumour .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. It's a good survey of micro and macroeconomics, all explained in easy-to-understand terms (because it's being explained to a dog. In a lot of cases, a lot of heavy economic terminology was used, and then explained after using less-heavy words without then mentioning the main terminology again. Over the course of 17 dog walks, it looks at different economic concepts and how they shape our everyday lives.