✅ ‘If you read just one book about economics, make it Andrew Leigh’s clear, insightful, remarkable – and short – work’ – Claudia Goldin, Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics

✅ The Shortest History of Economics unearths the hidden economic forces behind war, innovation and social transformation, tracing how capitalism and the market system emerged.

✅ From the emergence of agriculture to the war in Ukraine, Andrew Leigh weaves a fascinating narrative punctuated by expert insights into major moments in human history – why the invention of the plough led to gender inequality, how certain diseases determined the patterns of colonialism, and even how New York’s robber barons inspired the board game Monopoly.

✅ Always accessible, expertly written and highly illuminating, The Shortest History of Economics is a perfect introduction to the subject.