Includes index.
Previously published as the First American edition in 2012.
"Big ideas simply explained" -- Cover.
Content Note
Let the trading begin: 400 B.C.E. - 1770 C.E. -- The age of reason: 1770-1820 -- Industrial and ecomonic revolutions: 1820-1929 -- War and depression: 1929-1945 -- Post-war economics: 1954-1970 -- Contempary economics: 1970-present.