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An Economic History of the World since 1400 by Donald Harreld
Economics always interests me and I loved the opportunity to learn from this book. There were a number of courses that I have studied at the university but that was all theory. I took Microeconomics and Macroeconomics at the undergraduate level and Managerial Economics at the MBA level. They were a nice overview, but nothing as educational and insightful as this book. Beyond that, there was a 400 page supplementary document that came with the purchase of this book. Learning from someone with credibility like Donald Herreld has is what I enjoy and seek out. It’s important to me that I don’t just learn but that I learn from people who are much more well-versed than I am myself.
I wrote this a little differently than I have some other pieces I’ve published. What I did here was include all the headers and lecture titles and then shared my reflections below those before including the notes I picked up from the book.
Lecture 1: Self-Interest, Human Survival, and History
In overall economics, there is supply and demand, that’s always the basis of it and the author of this program provided 3 for us to ask. I found them all essential and they framed the book perfectly.
