Reviews - In This Economy?: How Money & Markets Really Work

62 reviews for:

In This Economy?: How Money & Markets Really Work

Kyla Scanlon

3.74 AVERAGE

nnw's review against another edition

4.0

very nice general overview of how the economy works, was in need of a good refresh. wish that i had a text version instead of audio, but alas

espiegel's review against another edition

A bit too simplistic for what I was looking for.

Wow I am definitely impressed, especially since the practical examples in the first few chapters surrounding vibeconomics seemed somewhat childish and gibberish. However, as the book progressed it provided more conclusive explanations. Although the content was a bit US-centric (kinda understandable, given that the author is from the USA). I'm rereading it on eBook, as the audiobook weren't great for highlighting. Overall, I'd rate it 3.75/5.

mgraciosa's review against another edition

Audio book didn’t really hold my attention

jhobble10's review against another edition

2.5

challenging informative fast-paced

I wanted to check out this book because I love Kyla’s TikTok content. The book was okay. It felt pretty entry level, like a review of my high school economics class plus some applicability to current events and trends. I do appreciate her opinions and takes though, mostly towards the concluding chapters.

kelseyraerussell's review against another edition

3.5

hopeful informative reflective relaxing medium-paced

ineffablebob's review against another edition

4.0

informative slow-paced

Kyla Scanlon has become something of an economic populizer in the last few years, making videos explaining economic concepts and trends in the language of the social media generation. Now she's written a book, "In This Economy? How Money and Markets Really Work" that puts all the fundamental econ topics in one place. Mostly she's explaining how things work, but there's a good number of digressions into policy commentary, all of which are pretty solidly on the progressive end of the policy spectrum. Scanlon is a fine writer with a penchant for breaking concepts down into understandable parts, so I think this book accomplishes the goal of giving a curious, progressive-leaning reader a good grounding in what's happening in the economic world. However, I'm not sure how many of those people there are who aren't already watching Scanlon's videos to get the same result...maybe enough to make the book a success, maybe not.