Sounds About Right: Audiobooks to Help Us Understand the World
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Sounds About Right: Audiobooks to Help Us Understand the World
#33: Understandable Economics: Because Understanding Our Economy Is Easier Than You Think and More Important Than You Know with Howard Yaruss
Howard Yaruss is an economist, professor, attorney, businessman, and activist who greatly enjoys explaining complex issues in a clear, interesting and easily accessible way. He graduated from Brown University, studied at the London School of Economics and earned a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
He has taught a variety of courses on economics and business, and currently teaches at New York University.
His book is titled Understandable Economics: Because Understanding Our Economy Is Easier Than You Think and More Important Than You Know
Some of the topics we discussed includes:
- Why have people lost faith in the economic system?
- Why and how the current economic system is creating greater inequality
- Why Howard made the conscious effort not to focus on terms such as 'capitalism and socialism' in the book.
- How us believing in money is perhaps the greatest opinion in mankind
- How the coverage of national debt has been so misleading
- How 'human capital' is the most empowering form of capital
- The actions people should take to get involved in understanding economics.
The Book and Audiobook: Understandable Economics: Because Understanding Our Economy Is Easier Than You Think and More Important Than You Know is out now.
You can find out more about Howard on his website https://howardyaruss.com/
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