The Undercover Economist
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Narrated by:
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Robert Ian Mackenzie
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Written by:
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Tim Harford
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"The book is unequaled in its accessibility and ability to show how free market economic forces affect readers' day-to-day." (Publishers Weekly)
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- Dan
- 2023-03-23
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Performance = I can forgive the cringe-inducing very fake British accent, but hearing every breath is frustrating. They need to re-edit this.
Content = An extremely outdated overview on microeconomics that carries many plainly wrong assumptions about consumer behaviour. It's like Microeconomics 101 from 2001 - all about free markets, free trade, and perfectly rational actors.
There is an entire chapter where he seems shocked to learn about extremely basic price strategies from marketers (wow, putting expensive food in high-end supermarkets, who would've thought!)
TLDR; Mostly extremely basic econ theory (supply & demand pricing) or outdated, often incorrect takes on consumer pricing and microeconomics.
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- CKH
- 2020-01-13
I wish Tim Harford had narrated this
Well written, very engaging intro the basics of economics; but the narration is way too "breathy". Suprised this was not sorted inthe studio.
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