Why Were Getting Poorer: A Realists Guide to the Economy and How We Can Fix It

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A lapsed economist debunks the most common myths about how our economy operates and explains how the world really works
Did you know that while we think of money as notes and coins printed by the government, the truth is that the overwhelming majority of money today is credit created by private banks

Did you know that the reason housing keeps getting less accessible is because we havent found a way to separate houses from land in our policies

And did you know that far from globalisation being a mystical force, certain countries and currencies have dominated the way it has played out to their own advantage (OK, most people know this one.)

Whilst economics is at the heart of the society we live in, few people feel they have enough of a grasp on the subject. Unfortunately, as Cahal Moran explains, trained economists often come up short too. This is because economics as a field has become filled with jargon and complexity, becoming inaccessible to those of us without academic training. Why We're Getting Poorer will delve into the key topics in the discipline money, globalisation, inequality, climate change, and growth to demonstrate why what we think we know about these things is wrong, and will teach us what we really need to know about them.

Authored by an award-winning economist and the YouTuber responsible for Unlearning Economics, Why We're Getting Poorer is a thrilling and iconoclastic guide to how the world really works.

Author Bio

Dr Cahal Moran is a Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He received his PhD in economics from the University Manchester on the subject of prospect theory. He is the co-author of the bestselling book The Econocracy: on the Perils of Leaving Economics to the Experts (Penguin Press). He is a lifelong member of the charity Rethinking Economics, which campaigns for a better economics education and has featured on BBC radio 4 alongside other members. He also runs a YouTube channel, Unlearning Economics, which has over 119,000 youtube subscribers, 53,000 twitter followers and has just launched a podcast. He lives in London.