The Beginner's Guide To The World Economy : Revised Edition

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Summary: Did for me what "The Wall Street Journal Guide..." did
Review: As I am taking my first class ever on Economics, which is focused on Microeconomics, this book comes in handy as a reference book where I can find a down-to-earth discussion of basic concepts that relate to Macroeconomics. It pretty much did for me in Economics what "The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money & Investing" did for investing. It is broken down in a chapter-like fashion, much in the style of the dummies guides and written in layman's tems by Mr. Epping, an American who holds a degree in International Finance from Yale, who has held management positions all over Europe and who is fluent in six languages.

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Summary: This book give a basic understanding of economics.
Review: I'm a high school student and I had read this book. I think this book is a great book for beginners like me. It give a basic understanding of some economics terms as well as finance, like what is an Option or what is Macroeconomics, that kind of thinks. I realy like this book and because of it i'm planing to buy more books not only about economics but other subject. I also like this book because is very esay to read, specially for a person who only has som years in this country like me. I recoment this book.

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Summary: There are better books for "economics 101"
Review: You can find much better books regarding economics than this one. Try Milton Friedmans "Capitalism and Freedom" or "Free to Choose". Try Thomas Sowell's "Basic Economics" or Hayek's "Road to Serfdom" or Hazlitt's "Economics in One Lesson". All of these books are available on Amazon and give a much better, and more sound view of the world regarding Economics. Also there are lots of collections of columns from Walter Williams that are very easy reading and view life in this country through the eyes of economic principle. They are all much better than this book and use reason and logic to formulate their views. They also are all excellent in explaining their common sense views in terms that all can understand. You're money (and isn't that what economics is all about) is much better spent on these other authors than on this one and this book.

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Summary: There are better books for "economics 101"
Review: You can find much better books regarding economics than this one. Try Milton Friedmans "Capitalism and Freedom" or "Free to Choose". Try Thomas Sowell's "Basic Economics" or Hayek's "Road to Serfdom" or Hazlitt's "Economics in One Lesson". All of these books are available on Amazon and give a much better, and more sound view of the world regarding Economics. Also there are lots of collections of columns from Walter Williams that are very easy reading and view life in this country through the eyes of economic principle. They are all much better than this book and use reason and logic to formulate their views. They also are all excellent in explaining their common sense views in terms that all can understand. You're money (and isn't that what economics is all about) is much better spent on these other authors than on this one and this book.