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Planet money : a guide to the economic forces that shape your life / Alex Mayyasi and the hosts of NPR's Planet Money ; [book illustrators, María Jesús Contreras, Julian Frost ; introduction by Alex Goldmark].
Lippincott Library - Business Trends HM548 .M39 2026
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mayyasi, Alex, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Planet money (Podcast).
- Economics.
- Monetary policy.
- Investments.
- Economics--Sociological aspects.
- Social change--Economic aspects.
- Social change.
- Sustainable development.
- economics.
- sustainable development.
- Genre:
- Illustrated works.
- Informational works.
- Instructional and educational works.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 323 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Guide to the ecomonic forces that shape your life
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., [2026]
- Summary:
- "Hello, and welcome to Planet Money! Millions of listeners turn to Planet Money to make sense of the world of economics through expert research and delightful stories. Now, in their first-ever book, longtime contributor Alex Mayyasi and the hosts of NPR's hit podcast present brand-new reporting and insights gathered from more than a decade of award-winnng journalism to investigate the powerful forces that shape your life. Exploring the mysteries of the global economy, Planet Money explains how money works, reveals how AI might help you or replace you, demystifies dating markets, and shows how pro sports' 'dumbest' contract holds the secret to building wealth. Planet Money takes readers on adventures to a smartphone factory in Patagonia, a raisin cartel in California, and an Indigenous reserve in Canada that just might have a solution for the housing crisis. Introducing the biggest ideas in economics through surprising stories, unexpected takeaways, and intimate journeys with interesting characters, Planet Money shows how economics shapes our world, and how we can harness its key principles to make our own lives a little richer."--Book jacket flap.
- Contents:
- Introduction / by Alex Goldmark
- Part One: Meet the economy. The pickle problem : discovering the elegant power of prices
- Why Delaware? : how a tiny state became the referee of global business
- A world tour of spectacular public goods
- The raisin outlaw : escaping the commodity trap
- The phone at the end of the world : the promise and peril of free trade
- How we all get richer, forever : the historic anomaly of being alive after 1700
- Part Two: Work & career. How Desi invented TV : Owning a piece of primetime
- The zoom boom vs. happy hour : should my company let me work from home?
- A tale of two gig workers : the pros and cons of being your own boss
- The laws of the office
- The hopeful tale of the ATM and the bank teller : lessons from the life cycle of automation
- Part Three: Love & family. The labor of finding love : every market has a designer
- The opportunity atlas : the American dream exists, it's just not evenly distributed
- The rent is too damn high : the Squamish Nation's impossibly simple solution to the housing crisis
- Relationship advice from economists
- The global conspiracy to make childcare more expensive : why goods get cheaper and services don't
- Part Four: Saving & investing. Bobby Bonilla Day : the "worst contract in sports history" is a blueprint for retirement planning
- How we all fell for a confidence trick : banking in America, in three acts
- A love letter to insurance
- Weighing a cow and picking stocks : why it's so hard to beat the market
- The biggest bet of your life : how index funds took over
- Why is my money worth less every year? : a brief history of the battle against inflation
- Part Five: Leisure. Why weekends are like subways and Uber : a lesson in the power of networks
- How an oil shock turned Norway into a tourism destination
- What's the deal with credit card points? : there's no such thing as a free lunch
- Advanced fairness at the Marathon : strategies for allocating scarce resources.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-311) and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781324078777
- 1324078774
- OCLC:
- 1519443442
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