Visible Hand: A Wealth of Notions on the Miracle of the Market

  • 5h 27m 28s
  • Matthew Hennessey
  • Blackstone Audio, Inc. dba Blackstone Publishing
  • 2022

To most people, the word economics sounds like homework. In Visible Hand, Wall Street Journal op-ed editor Matthew Hennessey brings basic economic principles vividly to life in plain English, without resorting to numbers, graphs, or jargon. This isn’t Fed policy or the stock market. This is the essential stuff: supply and demand, incentives and tradeoffs, scarcity and innovation, work and leisure. A teenager should be able to discuss these things intelligently. Sadly, too few of us can explain them even in adulthood. Visible Hand equips listeners with the essential vocabulary necessary to understand and explain how we make the choices we do. In Hennessey’s hands, economics is far from the dismal science. It’s the sparkling art of decision-making. No homework necessary.

About the Author

Matthew Hennessey is the Wall Street Journal's deputy op-ed editor.

In this Audiobook

  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1 - The Miracle
  • CHAPTER 2 - Markets
  • CHAPTER 3 - Motivations
  • CHAPTER 4 - Preferences
  • CHAPTER 5 - Prices
  • CHAPTER 6 - Specialization
  • CHAPTER 7 - Work
  • CHAPTER 8 - Business
  • CHAPTER 9 - The Anti-Marketeers
  • CHAPTER 10 - Gravitation
  • Afterword
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