Review: 'The Instant Economist' by Timothy Taylor
This review was written on 06th October 2020. I started reading ‘The Instant Economist’ quite a while back. My Goodreads account says it’s been on my 'currently-reading' shelf since October 2019 but I’m sceptical – I’m sure I’ve carried the book to many a damp football session in Clapham long before then. Anyway, the book starts off by introducing simple microeconomics concepts and then ramps up to discuss macroeconomics – we go from learning about basic supply and demand principles to discussing monetary policy, all in the space of around 250 pages. There is a lot to like about this book. I had read two popular economics books before picking this up but this was the first that, while reading it, I had to close at times to think through the explanations, to work out whether a change in something would really lead to a change in some other thing, and to the same degree, as the author said it would. Most popular books on academic subjects aren't usually able to involve t...