Sounds About Right: Audiobooks to Help Us Understand the World
#33: Understandable Economics: Because Understanding Our Economy Is Easier Than You Think and More Important Than You Know with Howard Yaruss
Howard Yaruss is an economist, professor, attorney, businessman, and activist who greatly enjoys explaining complex issues in a clear, interesting and easily accessible way. He graduated from Brown University, studied at the London School of Economics and earned a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
He has taught a variety of courses on economics and business, and currently teaches at New York University.
His book is titled Understandable Economics: Because Understanding Our Economy Is Easier Than You Think and More Important Than You Know
Some of the topics we discussed includes:
- Why have people lost faith in the economic system?
- Why and how the current economic system is creating greater inequality
- Why Howard made the conscious effort not to focus on terms such as 'capitalism and socialism' in the book.
- How us believing in money is perhaps the greatest opinion in mankind
- How the coverage of national debt has been so misleading
- How 'human capital' is the most empowering form of capital
- The actions people should take to get involved in understanding economics.
The Book and Audiobook: Understandable Economics: Because Understanding Our Economy Is Easier Than You Think and More Important Than You Know is out now.
You can find out more about Howard on his website https://howardyaruss.com/
As of now, my podcast is biweekly and prior to an episode I’ll let you know what book/audiobook I’ll be listening to before the next show so we can delve into it together!
Please don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast so you’re in the loop whenever a new episode comes out… and also connect with me on Instagram or email so we can keep the conversation going and share with each other fascinating content.
www.instagram.com/SoundsAboutPod
I am now on goodreads!
www.goodreads.com/SoundsAboutPod
Are you an author that will like to be on the next episode of the podcast?
Listeners: Did I cover a book you read or listened to? Did I discuss the things which also stuck out to you? Or did I miss it out?..... get in touch, and let me know what your experience was or to give me audiobook recommendations: soundsaboutpod@gmail.com
Howard Yaruss is an economist, professor, attorney, businessman, and activist who greatly enjoys explaining complex issues in a clear, interesting and easily accessible way. He graduated from Brown University, studied at the London School of Economics and earned a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
He has taught a variety of courses on economics and business, and currently teaches at New York University.
His book is titled Understandable Economics: Because Understanding Our Economy Is Easier Than You Think and More Important Than You Know
Some of the topics we discussed includes:
- Why have people lost faith in the economic system?
- Why and how the current economic system is creating greater inequality
- Why Howard made the conscious effort not to focus on terms such as 'capitalism and socialism' in the book.
- How us believing in money is perhaps the greatest opinion in mankind
- How the coverage of national debt has been so misleading
- How 'human capital' is the most empowering form of capital
- The actions people should take to get involved in understanding economics.
The Book and Audiobook: Understandable Economics: Because Understanding Our Economy Is Easier Than You Think and More Important Than You Know is out now.
You can find out more about Howard on his website https://howardyaruss.com/
As of now, my podcast is biweekly and prior to an episode I’ll let you know what book/audiobook I’ll be listening to before the next show so we can delve into it together!
Please don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast so you’re in the loop whenever a new episode comes out… and also connect with me on Instagram or email so we can keep the conversation going and share with each other fascinating content.
www.instagram.com/SoundsAboutPod
I am now on goodreads!
www.goodreads.com/SoundsAboutPod
Are you an author that will like to be on the next episode of the podcast?
Listeners: Did I cover a book you read or listened to? Did I discuss the things which also stuck out to you? Or did I miss it out?..... get in touch, and let me know what your experience was or to give me audiobook recommendations: soundsaboutpod@gmail.com