EAN: 9780063383784

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"If you read just one book about economics make it Andrew Leigh's clear insightful and remarkable (and short) work." --Claudia Goldin recipient of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics and Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University A sweeping engrossing history of how economic forces have shaped the world--all in under 200 pages In How Economics Explains the World Harvard-trained economist Andrew Leigh presents a new way to understand the human story. From the dawn of agriculture to AI here is story of how ingenuity greed and desire for betterment have to an astonishing degree determined our past present and future. This small book indeed tells a big story. It is the story of capitalism - of how our market system developed. It is the story of the discipline of economics and some of the key figures who formed it. And it is the story of how economic forces have shaped world history. Why didn't Africa colonize Europe instead of the other way around? What happened when countries erected trade and immigration barriers in the 1930s? Why did the Allies win World War II? Why did inequality in many advanced countries fall during the 1950s and 1960s? How did property rights drive China's growth surge in the 1980s? How does climate change threaten our future prosperity? You'll find answers to these questions and more in How Economics Explains the World. "Can a short book survey the full history of something so vast and remain readable? To find out read How Economics Explains the World by Andrew Leigh. In simple clear language--and less than 200 pages--it does exactly what its title promises. ... Leigh canters through the history of human progress pausing briefly to explain the economic forces and ideas that drove it forward. ... Along the way readers meet the big economic thinkers who sought to explain these forces. Both finance aficionados and mere novices will read savour and return to this book." - The Economist "The Best New Books to Read about Finance"

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