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Memory Jog

Jim Riley

16th February 2009

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Writing The Romantic Economist blog reminded me of another book that I have made fairly regular use of in my economics teaching. It is another book that bridges the gap between Economics and literature. The Literary Book of Economics was recommended to me by a colleague at an IB workshop in Athens just over 18 months ago. The book is full of passages of literature that have an underlying economic theme. The passages are divided into topic areas e.g. scarcity, money, trade etc.

I managed to source my copy from the US Amazon website. I can thoroughly recomend it as both a source of lessons and a different take on economic theory.

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Jim Riley

Jim co-founded tutor2u alongside his twin brother Geoff! Jim is a well-known Business writer and presenter as well as being one of the UK's leading educational technology entrepreneurs.

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