The Cartoon Guide to Economics
$42.90
- Paperback
248 pages
- Release Date
27 April 2027
Summary
A comprehensive and illustrated 21st-century primer on the basics of economics—if you think “monopsonies” is just the way a drunk person says “monopolies,” that subsidies are cities beneath a city, or that gross domestic product refers to the manure market, then you need The Cartoon Guide to Economics to demystify the macro and micro!
Award-winning, New York Times bestselling, Harvard-educated cartoonist Larry Gonick returns to supply your audience’s demand with a compre…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780063376748 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0063376741 |
| Author: | Larry Gonick, Benjamin Ho |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Imprint: | William Morrow Paperbacks |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 27 April 2027 |
| Weight: | 295g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 187mm x 235mm |
| Series: | Cartoon Guide Series |
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Critics Review
“Professional economists use mathematical models and statistical regressions to better understand the economy. For the rest of us, big economic ideas can be more intuitive and compelling when illustrated through scenes, scenarios, and people making economic decisions. So it’s a joy to read and spend time with Ben Ho and Larry Gonick’s comic strip explanations of economics, which breezily and authoritatively illustrate everything from GDP to monopsonies.”
–Alex Mayyasi, New York Times bestselling author of Planet Money
“Fun, smart and un-put-downable. I can’t imagine a more delightful way to learn economics. Ben and Larry have created something really special: a painless way to understand business, money, and the economy. All of the lessons are easy to follow and very clear, without feeling dumbed down or too basic. A perfect book for the economically curious.”
–Stacey Vanek Smith, economics journalist, Bloomberg and NPR
“Ben and Larry’s book is the essential guide to the invisible spreadsheet behind everyday life. With characteristic care, they’ve rounded up concepts from sunk costs to efficient markets to make the economics toolkit accessible, while retaining its best quality–that it is FUN. Economics isn’t the ONLY way to think about life, but it is the most useful.”
–Mary Childs, author of The Bond King, former host of Planet Money, and host of Mary in America
“I have spent thirty years trying to convince people that economics is life and life is economics. Gonick and Ho brilliantly do it in a few hundred fun panels. Bravo! Any curious reader, from five to 105, will devour these pages!”
–John A. List, bestselling author of The Voltage Effect and The Why Axis
“The substance of The Cartoon Guide to Economics is as fresh as the format. I’ll be recommending it to everyone from students first studying economics to colleagues looking for a new way to think about the field.”
–Jason Furman, Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard University and Former Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers
Larry Gonick
Larry Gonick has been creating comics that explain history, science, and other big subjects for more than forty years. He wrote his first guide, Blood from a Stone: A Cartoon Guide to Tax Reform, in 1977. He has been a calculus instructor at Harvard (where he earned his BA and MA in mathematics) and a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, and he is staff cartoonist for Muse magazine.
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