Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: How Capitalism Works – and How it Fails
ALOUD @ Los Angeles Public Library
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Why Is It So Hard to Understand the Economy?
The author says he wanted to organize his own thinking about the economy. The best way of doing that is when you have a recalcidrant 11 year old daughter, who is ever ready to dismiss everything you say,. imagining how you can make her interested in the economy and how you can explain it in such a way as to prevent the switching off moment. Iti is a great device, as an author, for sitting down and writing a book like thata follow upon what you were just saying about the scientific models of the economy. Theyare out there. Iam sure, in this library, there is probably an entire wing filled with books with various theories of this is how the economy
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