scenes pictures and video. author information and to talk directly to authors been on live programs. facebook.com/booktv. >> when you think about this it is interesting because people have very strong opinions about all sorts of things. gay marriage, climate change, nuclear policy decisions. without having any technical expertise in these areas. i have my strong view on american foreign policy, but what do i know about this? i took one course in religion back in 1983 when i was an undergraduate student in south korea, and the crusty old professor who taught us use the textbook from the 1960s, yeah? so what did i know about religion isn't half a century ago.

but then whenever these topics, i spout my opinions to i'm sure your the same, whatever the topic is. so what is economics different? it's actually very complicated thing but there's a short answer is that my colleagues have been successful in persuading the rest of the world that this stuff is so difficult that you don't understand even if you bothered to explain it. i happen to very strongly disagree with this view in my previous book, the 23 things i didn't tell you about capitalism, i actually wrote a short professional suicide note by saying that 95% of economics is commonsense. it's made to look difficult with the use of jargons, graphs,

statistics. and even though the remaining 5% can be understood, it's not in all technical details, if somebody bothered to explain it in an accessible way, which is what i tried to do in this book. so this is the cover of the book. actually it came out only in the uk on different format. this is pocket sized paperback edition, exact same content, just different publisher, different types and so on. and, indeed, in order to make this book accessible, nor to make economics accessible to non-the economist, i really pull all the stuff i had. today's mary poppins, the chapter on finance. the matrix, my fair lady, gone

with the wind, the simpsons. i like ned flanders, my favorite simpsons character. so i really try. i don't know how much i succeed but i really try, but don't get me wrong. being accessible doesn't mean that i'm trying to give you some baby version, a dummies guide, you know? seven things that you need to know about inflation, three things you didn't know about this and that. i do not do that because i take my readers very seriously. ..