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by Partha Dasgupta (Author) "Becky, who is 10 years old, lives with her parents and an older brother Sam in a suburban town in America's Midwest ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: OUP Oxford (22 Feb 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0192853457
  • ISBN-13: 978-0192853455
  • Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 10.8 x 1.4 cm
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Diplomat, Winter 2007
'The book is in a fascinating series of Very Short Introductions.'

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"I wish more people would read Dasgupta's book, and I wish more economists would write variations on its theme. It is a model specimen." (www.economicprincipals.com )

The text is direct, rigorous and thought-provoking. It provides an intelligent, rigorous and readable introduction to economics. (London Book Review.com )

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2.0 out of 5 stars Substandard and a waste of reading time, 18 Feb 2009
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I'm sure I'm not the only one who has bought this book thinking it would rid me of my ignorance of the economic crises that have beset the world. This book doesn't really explain the principles people (myself included) find confusing and befuddling: Interest rates, exchange rates, hedge funds, securitisation, bonds and the stock market (among others). INstead it tackles a few basic principles regarding lending and how we all have our price ect.. It fails to clear up most things, and the best parts of the book (the ones regarding development of countries) are mostly covered in a geography GCSE and should be expanded upon more in a longer book (or monograph as the author constantly calls it). Even if what you really want from this book is an introduction to economics for an economics degree or an A- Level I wouldn't recommend it, as most of what it deals with is very intuitive and you most probably already know (i.e. families in poorer countries have more children so the women often don't work). To sort out the more confusing elements to economics and to explain the current economic crisis I would recommend The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson instead.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing-title should be economics of the rich and poor, 18 May 2009
Before I start I just want to say that the author is a excellent authority on economics, and apart from a few books (including this one), OUP's Very Short Introductions have been excellent.

However, I found a lot of the book went off on a unique, but albeit irrelevant course to what was supposed to be centralised in the book, that is standard economics. Too much of the book was on demographics, politics and why there are rich people, and why there are poor people (in an economical way). Economics is closely integrated into these factors, but all the book was about the contrasts in living standards between two children Becky and Desta; most if not all of the reasons for this I had learnt in Geography pre-GCSE and at GCSE at school.
The limitations in this are obvious: we don't really get to see much more of economics than how it is important to analyse living standards.

I went to this book to try and understand the economic terms that bombard me from the TV and in the nespapers, and more of the economics of daily life, and also of economic crises, but I didn't find it in this book. I think anyone considering a book on how economics makes people rich and poor should go for this book, but otherwise, including my reasons above, this book is not good.

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