Economics as Literature - Willie Henderson

Advantages: Wonderful resource
Disadvantages: none

...The Oxford Companion to English Literature is a weighty tome. But there's no fat! No, sir! Every ounce of the weight of this book is pure literary muscle! The book was first published in 1932, edited by Sir Paul Harvey, and the current edition is edited by the author Margaret Drabble. The book is an invaluable companion to anyone who has an interest in English, be it professional or amateur. The design of the book is simple to follow, with each entry in alphabetical order. The book is an eclectic collection of thousands of literary references. It covers fictional characters, authors, locations that are of significance to English literature, fictional locations, literary patrons, music, history, poetry, religion as it relates to literature, drama, theoretical concepts of literary criticism, etc., etc. As well as the main body... Read review

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Advantages: Readable, informative
Disadvantages: Only an introduction

...This is a book on economics, however I don’t believe it is aimed merely at professional economists. It is not a huge textbook being only just over 200 pages long. This book sets itself up as an attack upon conventional economics. The basic premise of the book is traditional economic thinking is based upon a machine analogy. This means that it is possible to predict much of what happens based. As a result of this government have attempted to intervene in the economy to try to engineer the results that they desire; namely high growth and employment combined with low interest rates and inflation. However increasingly government has failed to adequately predict the workings of the economy. This book argues that the economy can be modelled as if it is a machine. Instead Omerod builds economic models based upon ants. Ants he argues... Read review

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Advantages: entertaining style of writing, many additional sources of information
Disadvantages: no mathematical coverage of topics

...You know you have learnt the art of procrastination when you're spending your time writing about a book instead of actually reading it... :-) "Economics for Business" by John Sloman and Mark Sutcliffe is the core textbook of the Economics course I'm doing as part of my course in Management Studies. I got it from Amazon for about 33 pounds, which is a reasonable amount for an economics textbook. The book is especially designed for people who want a good understanding of economics in order to apply it to a "real-life" (i.e. business) context. Before you start reading the review, I would like to point out that it is definitely *not* a good textbook for someone doing a "proper" economics degree, as Sloman does not rely on mathematical principles to explain the basic theories you need to know. This however, can be an advantage... Read review

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