Great book about economics with UK examples and commentary and an “outsider” view of the US economics. This is one of the first textbooks to explore the phenomenon of Influencer Marketing and how it fits within marketing communications to build brands and their communities. Georgina Godwin speaks to Dr Rebecca Campbell and her husband, author Anthony McGowan, about their latest book, ‘How to Teach Economics to Your Dog’. An excellent book about the principles and functions of economics, which are very easy for the lay-economist to digest. Relatively new terms such as Sub prime mortgages are explained well, as are older ones like ‘externalities’.

On the surface, this would seem to be nothing more or less than an example of performance art presented as literature. If, like Monty (and me) you are interested in this stuff but generally can't hang in there with the math needed for advanced econ courses, a lot of these all-verbal lessons will be familiar.

Along the way we meet some of the great thinkers from Adam Smith to Thomas Piketty, and ponder questions such as: What on earth does quantitative easing mean? He was also shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal with Rook and won the Booktrust Teenage Prize and the Catalyst Award for Henry Tumour . Over the course of seventeen walks, Dr Rebecca Campbell chews over economic concepts and investigates how they apply to our lives–people and mutts alike. Students taking Citizenship, Politics, Sociology and even some History courses would benefit from having an accessible guide to economics concepts.

Georgina Godwin is joined by two authors who are both on a quest to find new ways to listen – and they invite you to do the same. With over 6 million of the world’s best eBooks to choose from, Kobo offers you a whole world of reading. Some concepts are usually difficult to grasp, but the authors have done an admirable job using plain language.Joining Georgina Godwin in today’s episode is American author Sandra Newman, whose sixth novel, ‘Julia’, offers a bold feminist reinterpretation of George Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’.

Over the course of seventeen walks, Dr Rebecca Campbell chews over economic concepts and investigates how they apply to our lives – people and mutts alike. There’s enough information here to enable you to make sense of Chancellors’ budget statements and to evaluate how likely their measures are to be effective. A quirky introduction to economics" (on the front cover) is a good description of this book which is attempting to get a person with a reasonable interest in the subject more knowledgeable. This is one of the few books on economics that works as a textbook while remaining actually readable! Dr Rebecca Campbell has a PhD from the London School of Economics where she is currently a Fellow in the Management Department, and Director of Studies of the prestigious Global Masters in Management.Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. To welcome in the new year, we look back at one of our favourite conversations from 2023, with Lydia Sandgren.

Often Monty's input is a minor joke about food or bones, or just asking her to define a jargon term, but occasionally he gets off some edgy lines, e. Georgina Godwin sits down with the six authors shortlisted for The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2023: Hannah Barnes, Tania Branigan, Christopher Clark, Jeremy Eichler, Jennifer Homans and John Vaillant. Available after 3-20 days)In Your Dog Is Your Mirror, dog trainer Kevin Behan proposes a radical new model for understanding canine behavior: a dog’s behavior and emotion, indeed its very cognition,. It focused on very important topics, using real world examples while remaining largely a-political, and using the dog as a platform to investigate each subject was very nicely done.Economics concepts can often be difficult to grasp, but the authors have done an admirable job of explaining them in plain language … This is one of the few books on economics that works as a textbook while remaining actually readable! How can I explain this to a 3 year old, very excitable Great Pyranese/Labrador Retriever mix, with a limited understanding of math? Over the course of seventeen walks, Dr Rebecca Campbell chews over economic concepts and investigates how they apply to our lives - people and mutts alike. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. So allow me to add here that, as a former teacher of Economics and someone who still has an interest (who doesn’t, in these straitened times?