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The Armchair Economist (revised and updated May 2012): Economics & Everyday Life
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A little intriguing, a little disappointing
At first I was really into this. I was picking up the examples like a sponge, nodding along with stuff that made sense, and recalling the fun experience of graphing every problem in my Econ 202 class. (Which really helps visualize things, for me at least)
Then about halfway through, the author has a whole section dedicated to points where the media "said something stupid about economics" (not a direct quote but Lord does it make me roll my eyes). Suddenly we went from fun simplified theoretical economical problems and solutions - to bashing people for stating things that the author doesn't agree with. Maybe he has a point but all it served to do was enlighten me to his arrogance. And his condescending attitude. This soured the rest of the book.
While I did find myself falling back into enjoyment with these over simplified problems, solutions, explanations... The last chapter served to show that roll-my-eyes condescending arrogance again. So annoying.
Overall, I guess I kinda liked it because the writing is easy to follow and the "real world" examples used to explain econonic concepts was certainly fun. In the sense that it's like reading one sided conversations that happen at the lunch table. But whatever. Not bad I guess.
At first I was really into this. I was picking up the examples like a sponge, nodding along with stuff that made sense, and recalling the fun experience of graphing every problem in my Econ 202 class. (Which really helps visualize things, for me at least)
Then about halfway through, the author has a whole section dedicated to points where the media "said something stupid about economics" (not a direct quote but Lord does it make me roll my eyes). Suddenly we went from fun simplified theoretical economical problems and solutions - to bashing people for stating things that the author doesn't agree with. Maybe he has a point but all it served to do was enlighten me to his arrogance. And his condescending attitude. This soured the rest of the book.
While I did find myself falling back into enjoyment with these over simplified problems, solutions, explanations... The last chapter served to show that roll-my-eyes condescending arrogance again. So annoying.
Overall, I guess I kinda liked it because the writing is easy to follow and the "real world" examples used to explain econonic concepts was certainly fun. In the sense that it's like reading one sided conversations that happen at the lunch table. But whatever. Not bad I guess.
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