Economics for Everyone: A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism - Hardcover

Stanford, Jim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0745335780 ISBN 13: 9780745335780

Publisher: Pluto Press, 2015

Synopsis

Economics is too important to be left to the economists. This book provides the information you need to understand how capitalism works (and how it doesn't).

Through clear bite-sized chapters interspersed with illuminating illustrations, this is an antidote to the abstract and ideological way that economics is normally taught and reported on in in media. Key concepts such as finance, competition and wages are explored, and their importance to everyday life is revealed. It answers questions such as 'Do workers need capitalists?', 'Why does capitalism harm the environment?', and 'What really happens on the stock market?'.

The book is supported with a comprehensive set of web-based course materials including videos for popular economics courses.

About this title

About the Author

Jim Stanford is Director of the Centre for Future Work, based at the Australia Institute and Honorary Professor of Political Economy at University of Sydney. He writes an economics column for the Globe and Mail, appears regularly on CBC TV's 'Bottom Line' economics panel and is the author of Economics for Everyone (Pluto, 2015).

Edition details

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0745335780
• ISBN 13: 9780745335780
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 432