In This Economy?
About
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In This Economy? How Money & Markets Really Work is a 2024 book by the economics writer and content creator Kyla Scanlon. It is a plain-language guide to the machinery of the modern economy — inflation, interest rates, the bond market, housing, the labour market, and the psychology of recessions — written for a general audience raised on social media rather than textbooks. Scanlon’s distinctive contribution is her attention to the sentiment side of economics: the gap between how the economy is performing on paper and how people feel about it (the phenomenon she is best known for naming elsewhere). The book pairs accessible explanation with a case that economic understanding is now a civic skill, and that the way ideas are communicated — the format, the platform, the vibe — shapes what people believe about money and markets.
In the wiki
- Kyla Scanlon on Communicating Economic Ideas through Social Media — the book anchors Scanlon’s conversation with Tyler Cowen on teaching economics through short-form video, generational pessimism, housing and YIMBYism, and the hazards of communicating economic ideas at internet scale.
See also
- Kyla Scanlon — the author
- Kyla Scanlon on Communicating Economic Ideas through Social Media — the episode