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A review by bleary
היסטוריה של הכלכלה לצעירים מכל הגילים by Niall Kishtainy
5.0
Written in the style of maybe the greatest children's non-fiction book of all time, [b:A Little History of the World|61505|A Little History of the World (Little Histories)|E.H. Gombrich|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1388179842s/61505.jpg|59819] by [a:E.H. Gombrich|167112|E.H. Gombrich|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1188822123p2/167112.jpg], this volume tries to summarise the development of economic thinking from the Greeks right up until the present day.
It does a great job of summing up the dismal science and following the thread of how ideas have been formed, popularised, and been revised in the face of economic catastrophe. Kishtany does his best to make the material intelligible for younger readers and mostly succeeds, although the fact is that sometimes the concepts involved just really are very complicated. The chapter on Milton Friedman, for example, is slightly incomprehensible, but so is monetarism in general.
So it's a book for kids, but very, very precocious kids. More likely, it'll be appreciated by older readers who find themselves baffled by economics and want to catch up quickly. I highly recommend this book for the latter audience.
It does a great job of summing up the dismal science and following the thread of how ideas have been formed, popularised, and been revised in the face of economic catastrophe. Kishtany does his best to make the material intelligible for younger readers and mostly succeeds, although the fact is that sometimes the concepts involved just really are very complicated. The chapter on Milton Friedman, for example, is slightly incomprehensible, but so is monetarism in general.
So it's a book for kids, but very, very precocious kids. More likely, it'll be appreciated by older readers who find themselves baffled by economics and want to catch up quickly. I highly recommend this book for the latter audience.