Economic Literacy: What Everyone Needs to Know about Money and Markets

by Jacob De Rooy

With clarity, and a deft touch for simplifying a complex topic--in the tradition of the best-selling Innumeracy--Jacob De Rooy explains the basic terms and concepts of economics and proves that the only thing dismal about this science is the way it is usually taught.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517597373
• ISBN13: 9780517597378
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

More, more, more.

When is Dr. DeRooy going to publish "More Economic Literacy?""Economic Literacy" was just the new coat I needed after over twenty-five years of post-college economic news flowing my way in ever increasing volume and my memory of college macro and mirco economics 101 courses worn threadbare.Dr. DeRooy put the issues into perspective; he tells what's important. He tells why. So much has gone on since 1993, what appears to be the last year Dr.DeRooy had all the annual statistics available to him when he wrote "Economic Literacy".I'll buy, and recommend to all who come across this comment, "More Economic Literacy".

I laughed and learned at the same time.

This book is great! I read Economic Literacy once through, and now I find myself returning to it to refresh my memory on econ-related topics I encounter in the news or at the office. De Rooy uses a combination of brief lessons and anecdotes to relay information in a comprehensible form. I can understand best if I think of things in terms of real life experiences--Economic Literacy appeals to somebody like me because it is realistic. It is not at all lofty or overly theoretical. And hey, how many other econ books have cartoons in them? Economic Literacy makes a great gift, too! The friends with whom I shared it really enjoyed it.

The best economics textbook not found in a classroom

This book saved me in multiple economics classes, explaining terms that most books clouded with superfluous rhetoric and boring text. A must for anyone interested in money, and in that case, who isn't?