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From micro to macro, Andrew Leigh’s accessible history covers the economic essentials – and an epic rap battle

  • Written by John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland

Andrew Leigh’s The Shortest History of Economics is the latest in a series of such histories, mostly focused on particular countries.

It begins with a striking mini-history of household lighting, focusing on the amount of labour required to produce the light now given off by a standard lightbulb: 58 hours for a wood fire, five hours for a...

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