Need to understand today's economy? This is the book for you. The Cartoon Introduction to Economics, Volume Two: Macroeconomics is the most accessible, intelligible, and humorous introduction to unemployment, inflation, and debt you'll ever read.

Whereas Volume One: Microeconomics dealt with the optimizing individual, Volume Two: Macroeconomics explains the factors that affect the economy of an entire country, and indeed the planet. It explores the two big concerns of macroeconomics: how economies grow and why economies collapse. It illustrates the basics of the labor market and explains what the GDP is and what it measures, as well as the influence of government, trade, and technology on the economy. Along the way, it covers the economics of global poverty, climate change, and the business cycle. In short, if any of these topics have cropped up in a news story and caused you to wish you grasped the underlying basics, buy this book.

Author: Grady Klein, Yoram Bauman
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Published: 12/20/2011
Series: Cartoon Introduction to Economics
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.98h x 7.07w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9780809033614


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/03/2011
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2011
Booklist 02/15/2012 pg. 36

About the Author

A freelance cartoonist, illustrator, and animator, Grady Klein is the creator of the Lost Colony series of graphic novels.

An environmental economist at the University of Washington, Yoram Bauman, Ph.D., is the world's first and only stand-up economist.