Book Tile: A little history of Economics

Author: Niall Kishtainy

Read the title of the book, and you know exactly what you will get out of this book. History of Economics.

Even though I had economics in school and then again for two semesters in university, I would still recommend it to anyone that has already been exposed to economics at some point in time to the field of study. It is very reader-friendly, so anyone with no prior teachings in the field won’t get lost in the book at any point.

The book presents exactly what it offers. It offers a very little history of many different topics in this 40 chapter booklet. Each chapter is short so as to give the small piece of history and theory of the principle. And when it says history, it really takes you down memory lane all the way from the Greeks, to the thinking of the middle ages, right until to modern economics as we know it today.

Now, I won’t say you will be an economics guru after this, but you will definitely have a little more around your belt than you started off with, or, you may have enhanced your foundation understanding of what you knew before of some/all of the economics topics.

If you’re like me with that ‘urge to know’ inside of you then this is the book I would recommend as a first reader for other economics books, so you know what you are getting yourself into, and then go for the more in-depth books that I have reviewed before this book.

Also, the economics books you fill find in larger quantities won’t necessarily cover the economics topics from far back into the past, but more on the topics of the last three centuries. Therefore, by reading this book you will also walk down memory lane all the way from its roots. Now that is a bonus with this book!

All in all,

The book keeps it short and simple per chapter, walks you down memory lane and explains the theories in a reader-friendly manner, the book definitely deserves my rating of a 5.2/5.

Happy reading!!!!!