So allow me to add here that, as a former teacher of Economics and someone who still has an interest (who doesn’t, in these straitened times? Over the course of eighteen walks Dr Rebecca Campbell and Anthony McGowan chew over economic concepts and investigate how they apply to our lives – people and mutts alike. Some concepts are usually difficult to grasp, but the authors have done an admirable job using plain language. Over the course of 17 dog walks, it looks at different economic concepts and how they shape our everyday lives.

He was also shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal with Rook and won the Booktrust Teenage Prize and the Catalyst Award for Henry Tumour. This is one of the few books on economics that works as a textbook while remaining actually readable! A quirky introduction to economics" (on the front cover) is a good description of this book which is attempting to get a person with a reasonable interest in the subject more knowledgeable.With the absence of a dog and an interest in going for walks along the streets and parkland near where I live, I bounded through the chapters. However, painless refreshers can be fun, and some of the history I was only vaguely familiar with (quick, what did David Ricardo have to say on comparative advantage and implications for free trade? Explaining concepts, and THEN giving the name of them would have probably been easier - that, and maybe a rear glossary. In a lot of cases, a lot of heavy economic terminology was used, and then explained after using less-heavy words without then mentioning the main terminology again.

Georgina Godwin speaks to Dr Rebecca Campbell and her husband, author Anthony McGowan, about their latest book, ‘How to Teach Economics to Your Dog’. Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now. Available after 3-20 days)In Your Dog Is Your Mirror, dog trainer Kevin Behan proposes a radical new model for understanding canine behavior: a dog’s behavior and emotion, indeed its very cognition,.By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Georgina Godwin is joined by two authors who are both on a quest to find new ways to listen – and they invite you to do the same. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Economics is a fascinating subject, and this book explains some of its core concepts and terms clearly while adding concise examples and simple anecdotes. On the surface, this would seem to be nothing more or less than an example of performance art presented as literature.