It shows that getting to grips with the economy is like learning a recipe: when we understand it, we can adapt and improve it-and better understand our world. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World written by Ha-Joon Chang which was published in January 17th 2023. Myth-busting, witty, and thought-provoking, Edible Economics serves up a feast of bold ideas about globalization, climate change, immigration, austerity, automation, and why carrots need not be orange. Brief Summary of Book: Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World by Ha-Joon Chang.
For Chang, chocolate is a lifelong addiction, but more exciting are the insights it offers into postindustrial knowledge economies and while okra makes Southern gumbo heart-meltingly smooth, it also speaks of capitalism’s entangled relationship with freedom. Myth-busting, witty and thought-provoking, Edible Economics shows that getting to grips with the economy is like learning a recipe: if we understand it, we can change it - and, with it, the world. But this intellectual monoculture is bland and unhealthy.īestselling author and economist Ha-Joon Chang makes challenging economic ideas delicious by plating them alongside stories about food from around the world, using the diverse histories behind familiar food items to explore economic theory. It shows that getting to grips with the economy is like learning a recipe: when we understand it, we can adapt and improve it-and better understand our world.Edible Economics brings the sort of creative fusion that spices up a great kitchen to the often too-disciplined subject of economicsįor decades, a single, free-market philosophy has dominated global economics. Myth-busting, witty, and thought-provoking, Edible Economics serves up a feast of bold ideas about globalization, climate change, immigration, austerity, automation, and why carrots need not be orange. For Chang, chocolate is a lifelong addiction, but more exciting are the insights it offers into postindustrial knowledge economies and while okra makes Southern gumbo heart-meltingly smooth, it also speaks of capitalism’s entangled relationship with freedom. But this intellectual monoculture is bland and unhealthy. But this intellectual monoculture is bland and unhealthy.īestselling author and economist Ha-Joon Chang makes challenging economic ideas delicious by plating them alongside stories about food from around the world, using the diverse histories behind familiar food items to explore economic theory. Edible Economics brings the sort of creative fusion that spices up a great kitchen to the often too-disciplined subject of economics For decades, a single, free-market philosophy has dominated global economics.
Edible Economics brings the sort of creative fusion that spices up a great kitchen to the often too-disciplined subject of economicsįor decades, a single, free-market philosophy has dominated global economics.
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