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The Pocket Professor Economics (The Pocket Professor)
The Pocket Professor Economics - The Pocket Professor Author:Denis Boyles, David Fike, Gregg Stebben Your demand to understand economics is fully supplied in this irreverent resource that answers the age-old question, "Where has all my money gone?" Covering every major topic in economic theory, THE POCKET PROFESSOR: ECONOMICS explains why the competition can't be beat, tells you why dollars make sense, and discusses the impact of such ec... more »onomic giants as Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes, and Michael Jordan (yes, that Michael Jordan). Even if you find the GNP and CPI more confounding than the IRS, you'll learn to converse like an MBA, as this enlightening reference teaches you:
The five laws of economics
How to survive depression (that's economic, not clinical)
The stock market: why what goes up, might -- or might not -- come down
Why we're grounded to the concept of private property
What every economist doesn't want you to know
What causes recession, inflation, and other yucky economic things
More than you ever want to know about capital and capitalism
And much more!
And since money makes the world go around, this extraordinary compendium imparts practical wisdom, too -- with guidelines for understanding financial news, why you can't always bank on banks, and many other applications referring to everyday money matters.« less