The award-winning illustrator Grady Klein has paired up with the world's
only stand-up economist, Yoram Bauman, PhD, to take the dismal out of
the dismal science. From the optimizing individual to game theory to
price theory, The Cartoon Introduction to Economics is the most
digestible, explicable, and humorous 200-page introduction to
microeconomics you'll ever read.
Bauman has put the comedy into economy at comedy clubs and universities
around the country and around the world (his Principles of Economics,
Translated is a YouTube cult classic). As an educator at both the
university and high school levels, he has learned how to make economics
relevant to today's world and today's students. As Google's chief
economist, Hal Varian, wrote, You don't need a brand-new economics. You
just need to see the really cool stuff, the material they didn't get to
when you studied economics. The Cartoon Introduction to Economics is
all about integrating the really cool stuff into an overview of the
entire discipline of microeconomics, from decision trees to game trees
to taxes and thinking at the margin.
Rendering the cool stuff fun is the artistry of the illustrator and
lauded graphic novelist Klein. Panel by panel, page by page, he puts
comics into economics. So if the vertiginous economy or a dour
professor's 600-page econ textbook has you desperate for a fun, factual
guide to economics, reach for The Cartoon Introduction to Economics
and let the collaborative genius of the Klein-Bauman team walk you
through an entire introductory microeconomics course.
