¿Necesitas comprender la economía? Una introducción accesible y divertida a la macroeconomía para expertos y profanos, y para todo aquel que quiera entender qué está sucediendo sin tener que pasar por la lectura de complicados manuales. Aquí encontrarás las respuestas a los dos grandes temas ¿Cómo crece la economía? y ¿Por qué las economías se desmoronan? y entenderás cuáles son los factores que afectan a la economía de un país y de todo el planeta, qué es el PIB, cuáles son las influencias del gobierno, el mercado y la tecnología sobre la economía, y también los problemas del cambio climático o las relaciones entre el primer y el tercer mundo. Reseñas: «Si Art Spiegelman y John Maynard Keynes hubieran podido colaborar en un cómic sobre economía no lo habrían hecho mejor.» Jonathan A. Shayne «La gente no suele reírse con el paro, la inflación, y las recesiones, pero se les escapará más de una carcajada con este excelente manual de introducción a la macroeconomía.» Eric Maskin, Premio Nobel de Economía «Los estudiantes de economía encontrarán un complemento extraordinario a sus libros de texto, y los detractores de esta disciplina aprenderán qué es realmente la economía.» Diane Coyle, autor de The Soulful Science

¿Necesitas comprender la economía? Una introducción accesible y divertida a la macroeconomía para expertos y profanos, y para todo aquel que quiera entender qué está sucediendo sin tener que pasar por la lectura de complicados manuales. Aquí encontrarás las respuestas a los dos grandes temas ¿Cómo crece la economía? y ¿Por qué las economías se desmoronan? y entenderás cuáles son los factores que afectan a la economía de un país y de todo el planeta, qué es el PIB, cuáles son las influencias del gobierno, el mercado y la tecnología sobre la economía, y también los problemas del cambio climático o las relaciones entre el primer y el tercer mundo. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Need to understand today's economy? This is the book for you. The Cartoon Introduction to Economics, is the most accessible, intelligible, and humorous introduction to unemployment, inflation, and debt you'll ever read. 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.

This book makes economic concepts more accessible to all those who want to understand the “logic” behind economics, and tries to go a step further in explaining economic analysis and its usefulness. To do so, it begins by analysing the economy the smallest and most detailed perspective, Microeconomics. Once the criteria for the individual economic decisions have been defined, it will move on to analyse how the economic activities of a country are measured and its main economic problems at an aggregate level, i.e. Macroeconomics and afterwards, it gives greater dimension to the analysis, moving the macroeconomic analysis of a country to an analysis of the International Economy. In short, in order to reach our final analysis and understand international economic relations, we must first understand how economic decisions are made at an individual level, as it is the sum of individual decisions that shape the global economic structure.

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For many, Thomas Carlyle's put-down of economics as "the dismal science" rings true--especially in the aftermath of the crash of 2008. But Diane Coyle argues that economics today is more soulful than dismal, a more practical and human science than ever before. The Soulful Science describes the remarkable creative renaissance in economics, how economic thinking is being applied to the paradoxes of everyday life. This revised edition incorporates the latest developments in the field, including the rise of behavioral finance, the failure of carbon trading, and the growing trend of government bailouts. She also discusses such major debates as the relationship between economic statistics and presidential elections, the boundary between private choice and public action, and who is to blame for today's banking crisis.

The internationally bestselling authors of The Cartoon Introduction to Economics return to make calculus fun The award-winning illustrator Grady Klein has teamed up once again with the world’s only stand-up economist, Yoram Bauman, Ph.D., to take on the daunting subject of calculus. A supplement to traditional textbooks, The Cartoon Introduction to Calculus focuses on the big ideas rather than all the formulas you have to memorize. With Klein and Bauman as our guides, we scale the dual peaks of Mount Derivative and Mount Integral, and from their summits, we see how calculus relates to the rest of mathematics. Beginning with the problems of speed and area, Klein and Bauman show how the discipline is unified by a fundamental theorem. We meet geniuses like Archimedes, Liu Hui, and Bonaventura Cavalieri, who survived the slopes on intuition but prepared us for the avalanche-like dangers posed by mathematical rigor. Then we trek onward and scramble through limits and extreme values, optimization and integration, and learn how calculus can be applied to economics, physics, and so much more. We discover that calculus isn’t the pinnacle of mathematics after all, but its tools are foundational to everything that follows. Klein and Bauman round out the book with a handy glossary of symbols and terms, so you don’t have to worry about mixing up constants and constraints. With a witty and engaging narrative full of jokes and insights, The Cartoon Introduction to Calculus is an essential primer for students or for anyone who is curious about math.

Includes definitions, explanatory photographs and illustrations, and guidelines for using the dictionary.