In This Economy?: How Money & Markets Really Work
May 2024 · Sold by Crown Currency
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The book Jon Stewart (The Daily Show) hailed as “essential reading” for anyone who wants to “make informed decisions” and “have a basic understanding of the economy”: an illustrated guide to economics from one of the internet’s favorite financial educators.
“Few people can communicate how the economy actually works better than Kyla Scanlon.”—Morgan Housel, author of The Psychology of Money
Is our national debt really a threat? What is a “mild” recession, exactly? If you’re worried about your bank account balance, job security, or mortgage rate, what data should you be keeping tabs on?
For anyone trying to make sense of disorienting headlines, there’s no better interpreter than Kyla Scanlon. Through her trademark blend of witty illustrations, creative analogies, and insights from behavioral economics, literature, and philosophy, Scanlon breaks down everything you need to know about how money and markets really work. This indispensable handbook reveals the hidden forces driving key economic outcomes, the most common myths to steer clear of, and the dusty, outdated assumptions that constrain our political imagination, offering a bold new path to building a prosperous society that works for everyone.
“Few people can communicate how the economy actually works better than Kyla Scanlon.”—Morgan Housel, author of The Psychology of Money
Is our national debt really a threat? What is a “mild” recession, exactly? If you’re worried about your bank account balance, job security, or mortgage rate, what data should you be keeping tabs on?
For anyone trying to make sense of disorienting headlines, there’s no better interpreter than Kyla Scanlon. Through her trademark blend of witty illustrations, creative analogies, and insights from behavioral economics, literature, and philosophy, Scanlon breaks down everything you need to know about how money and markets really work. This indispensable handbook reveals the hidden forces driving key economic outcomes, the most common myths to steer clear of, and the dusty, outdated assumptions that constrain our political imagination, offering a bold new path to building a prosperous society that works for everyone.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The book Jon Stewart (The Daily Show) hailed as “essential reading” for anyone who wants to “make informed decisions” and “have a basic understanding of the economy”: an illustrated guide to economics from one of the internet’s favorite financial educators.
“Few peopl...
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Bobby S
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July 21, 2025
This is not a serious book. I regret wasting my time reading this book. It seems to be written for children, as it’s filled with convoluted analogies to explain even the simplest concepts. The author inserts their ridiculous ideas and presents them as facts. The book feels like it was written for edgy 16-year-olds.
About the author
Kyla Scanlon is an economic commentator and author and the founder of Kyla Labs. She writes about money, markets, and the systems that shape them for an audience of over one million people across TikTok, Instagram, Substack, and YouTube. Her debut book In This Economy? was a New York Times bestseller. She writes monthly for New York Times Opinion, has a video partnership with Foreign Policy, and is a contributor and analyst at CNN. She is also a senior fellow at the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator and a research fellow at the American Institute of Boys and Men. Scanlon was named to Barron’s 100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance and the TIME100 Creators list, and has appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Ezra Klein Show. At work on her second book, she lives in the mountains with her dog, Piglet.
Kyla Scanlon is an economic commentator and author and the founder of Kyla Labs. She writes about money, markets, and the systems that shape them for an audience of over one million people across TikTok, Instagram, Substack, and YouTube. Her debut book In This Economy? was a New York Times bestse...
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