What made for dull school textbooks comes alive in his capable hands… This book will come as a welcome wake-up call. If nothing else, it should make you a much more savvy shopper… Any student at GCSE level being taught by a bored economics teacher who should be teaching media studies should definitely make a bee-line for it, as indeed should people who know a lot about economics, if only to learn how to write in the hope of making the “dismal science” less so’ Express
`The Undercover Economist is an excellent Undercover Introduction to Economics. If you think that sounds boring, you probably ought to read it’ Financial Times
‘Economists do indeed think differently from the rest of us. This book gives an excellent introduction as to quite why they do Telegraph
‘As lively and witty an introduction to the supposedly “dismal science” as you are likely to read’ The Times
‘If you want a quick overview, you can’t do better than The Undercover Economist Wall Street Journal
`A playful guide to the economics of everyday life… The Undercover Economist succeeds in taking the chalk dust out of the subject.’ The Economist
