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| Economics for Dummies (For Dummies) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Peter Antonioni, Sean Masaki Flynn
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 2466
Media: Paperback
Pages: 404
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.3 x 1
ISBN: 0470057955
EAN: 9780470057957
ASIN: 0470057955
Publication Date: March 23, 2007
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 Useless as a stand alone text October 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Economics for Dummies is a dry theory driven academic textbook at its core. It explains ideas using made up charts, graphs and figures with very little real world contextualisation. It expects you to clarify its content by going out and finding real world examples for yourself. This sort of contextualisation is usually done by a teacher / lecturer in order to link theory to the real world. Without it, the text remains dry theory.
Even the way the book explains the theory is bad. Ideas are often obscured by patronising and simplistic explanations involving apples, oranges and pizza. The text itself jars as it shifts in tone between one author and the other, one of whom continually interjects childish humour that detracts from the message of the text.
In short, this is a bad book.
If you want to learn about how economics works in the world, you are much better off using a book that explains ideas using actual economic events and data. One such book is Economics by Parkin, Powell and Matthews. It uses real world figures, charts, graphs and press clippings to get ideas across, which it does in a simple, clear and concise manner. As a bonus also comes with an internet based study guide. The extra expense is money very well spent.
 You can see the joins... January 18, 2008
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
A reasonable intro to economics with one major problem. It is clearly little more than the American edition with a few British references thrown in (and this is supposed to be the 'UK Edition' as it says on the spine).
The two authors write in very different ways and it shows. Sean Masaki Flynn, the American author is very 'MTV' and tries far too hard to be conversational and informal with the result that he is rather annoying. His bits talk about the joys of peanut butter cookies and Ben and Jerry's fudge sundaes in ways that are unlikely to appeal to Brits.
In contrast, Peter Antonioni's sections are authoritative, evenly written and don't try to constantly be your 'buddy'. Every time the text switches between the two authors it is rather jarring. Indeed, readin the acknowledgements at the beginning it is clear that they have very different styles, ages, temperaments and opinions of themselves. Masaki Flynn is simply annoying. Maybe it's suitable for a US audience - but this should not be marketed as a British edition just because Antonioni gets to make a fw asides about Arsenal (or was it Spurs?).
In retrospect I wish I had bought one of the older single-author editions of Economics for Dummies which I imagine blows less hot and cold.
On a more positive note, I took the option of buying Investing for Dummies at the same time, and this is a far superior book. In fact it's rather better at explaining the essentials of economic theory than Economics for Dummies is, even though it only does it in passing.
 Well written and explained... January 26, 2006
32 out of 34 found this review helpful
Unlike some of the for dummies guides, this book is very well written and very well explained. With a variety of diagrams and tables this book is definately a good one to start with. The only down side is a little bit of economic knowledge might be helpful when reading this as some of the diagrams maybe hard to get your head around. The book is split into a number of sections whic are then split into chapters. It is pretty easy to read and understand as pages are broken down into smaller paragraphs which make it easier to digest. As well as an indepth glossary in the back of the book, this book is very good at explaining specific points and also uses 'real world' examples in its case studies and explanations. A very good book for a beginner an intermediate economic student, however more advanced students maybe left wanting a little more.
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