I downloaded this as an audiobook because I’d heard the author Kyla Scanlon on the Prof G Markets and Compound and Friends personal finance investment podcasts and had thought she was smart but relatable. I don’t always know what the hell the knowledgeable investment podcast folk are going on about, so I figured I needed an easy book on economics like this by a young up-and-coming voice, who had coined the term “vibe economy” (meaning the economy can function depending on our perception of its strengths or weaknesses, not the real numbers). Turns out, I was already familiar with most of what she had to say, and I raced through the book to get to her conclusion, which was that people can and should make the economy work for us, not the other way round. A good introduction to how investors see economics, but reads a little too much like her personality has been edited out. Her best stuff is yet to come.
No. 3 of 50 books I intend to read and review in 2024.
I’m Patrick Sherriff, an Englishman who survived 13 years working for newspapers in the US, UK and Japan. Between teaching English lessons at my conversation school in Abiko, Japan, I write and illustrate textbooks for non-native speakers of English, release Hana Walker mystery novels, short stories, paint, and write essays and Our Man in Abiko, a monthly newsletter highlighting good writing in English, often about about Japan, art, crime fiction and teaching.
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