While reading this book, I thought to myself: This should be handed out with the diploma to every graduating high school senior.
Matthew Hennessey, the deputy opinion editor for The Wall Street Journal, has written a new book entitled “Visible Hand: A Wealth of Notions on the Miracle of the Market”; it is a straightforward, unpatronizing breakdown of economics without the academic jargon that often loses people.
Hennessey uses everyday experiences to demonstrate how economics works and why an economy either flourishes, diminishes, or craters. The author presents the lofty discussion, often referred to in the book as the “dismal science,” in simple terms. In other words, from the ivory tower to main street….