Economics Study

The inspiring stories of six people who changed history. Contents: Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who started a bank which made his family rich; Cornelius Vanderbilt, who became one of the richest people in the USA; W. K. Kellogg, who started the world's biggest cereal company; Elizabeth Arden, who built the Elizabeth Arden cosmetics company; Walt Disney, who started the famous entertainment company; Soichiro Honda, who started the Honda motorbike and car company.

When Clara arrived in America, she couldn't speak English. She didn't know that young women had to go to work, that they traded an education for long hours of labor, that she was expected to grow up fast. But that didn't stop Clara. She went to night school, spent hours studying English, and helped support her family by sewing in a shirtwaist factory. Clara never quit, and she never accepted that girls should be treated poorly and paid little.

In this summary, quickly grasp the key ideas in Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future in less than one hour. Writing for the New York Times for over two decades, Krugman has written an enormous amount of well researched long-form journalism on a variety of topics, from Social Security to the media around a central theme: America is headed in the wrong direction, both economically and politically.