
Understandable Economics
Because Understanding Our Economy Is Easier Than You Think and More Important Than You Know
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Howard Yaruss
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Howard Yaruss
In this entertaining and informative guide, author Howard Yaruss breaks down our economic system in a straightforward way, avoiding jargon, formulas, graphs, and other technical material so common in books on this subject. Instead, he creates a compelling and comprehensive picture of our economy using accessible analogies, real-world observations, and entertaining anecdotes.
Understandable Economics will enable listeners to answer questions such as:
- Why is inequality soaring and what can we do about it?
- Do tax cuts for the wealthy create jobs or just create more inequality?
- Where does money come from, why does it have value, and who controls it?
- What does the Fed do and how does it affect our lives?
- Could alternative currencies like Bitcoin replace the dollar?
- Is our national debt a threat?
- Why do so many people believe free trade is good if it causes some people to lose jobs?
- Why does the economy regularly turn down and how can we get it back on track?
- And many more.
Understandable Economics provides the context, tools, and foundational knowledge listeners need to thoroughly understand our economy, determine which policies would work best, and champion those policies effectively.
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great snapshot approach to economics
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Excellent book on economics
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Great for gaining an understading of our economy
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Should have a subtitle: A Leftist’s Perspective
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Economic made simple but not oversimplified
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The author’s reading of the book and his voice is irritating.
He knows nothing about a simple explanation of the economy. He doesn’t understand it.
Waste of money
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Income inequality is due to a failure of “the system” a.k.a. Capitalism. This is not only untrue, but in direct conflict with his previous statements - how capitalism lifted millions of people out of poverty in the previous century. Apparently capitalism works phenomenally well (unprecedented in the history of the world according to the author) when viewed after several decades, but fails when viewed presently.
His premise fails to address the very nature of capitalism and how it accomplished all that it has - through competition and meritocracy which leverage inequality, while at the same time increasing the standard of living for everyone, and paradoxically decreasing the overall inequality.
No one on the planet goes to the store and picks the lesser product suffering from inequality to correct the "injustice". His premise ignores the real reasons for income inequality in those communities - disproportionate higher rates of - single motherhood, deadbeat fathers, child illiteracy, youth incarceration. There's no amount of free money you can throw at those kinds of issues to solve them.
Capitalism is not a free ride - there's a cost to the individual. But it provides the same way out for poor people today, as it has for millions in the past - through hard work, adding value to yourself and others, sacrifice and delayed gratification.
Sophomoric and stilted
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