Economics for Everyone: A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism, 2nd Edition - Softcover

Stanford, Jim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1552667650 ISBN 13: 9781552667651

Publisher: Fernwood Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

This concise and readable book provides non-specialist readers with all the information they need to understand how capitalism works (and how it doesn?t). Economics for Everyone, now in its second edition, is an antidote to the abstract and ideological way that economics is normally taught and reported. Key concepts such as finance, competition and wages are explored, and their importance to everyday life is revealed. This book is a must read for those working for a fairer world and for students of the social sciences who want to engage with economics. It is supported by comprehensive web-based course materials for popular economics courses.

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About the Author

Jim Stanford is an Economist in the Research Department of the Canadian Auto Workers, Canada’s largest private-sector trade union. He received his Ph.D. in Economics in 1995 from the New School for Social Research in New York. He also holds economics degrees from Cambridge University in the U.K. (1986) and the University of Calgary (1984). Jim is the author of Paper Boom (published in 1999 by James Lorimer & Co.) and co-editor (with Leah F. Vosko) of Challenging the Market: The Struggle to Regulate Work and Income.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1552667650
• ISBN 13: 9781552667651
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 430