Following the author on his blog now switching to his books: a decision I’m not regretting at all. His books are fun to read and not only informative: you learn a lot. What’s the difference between macro and microeconomics? If you are totally in the dark about a subject like me, this is a great book to start. Or maybe because I was in the dark you’ve better not follow my recommendation. The author mentions that Keynes defined an economist as someone closer to Da Vinci more than to a grey technocrat. The economist literally has to be curious on anything around humans, be a mathematician, admite art, know history, understand humans and also have an instinct for fixing things closer to an engineer... (I’m just paraphrasing so please read the book!). The author in this book shows exactly that looking back in time, bringing stories alive and writing with an amazing prose to bring down closer to your mind and hearts a topic that the same author confesses had taken a very abstract road. It also helped me a lot to understand is our understanding of what makes whole human systems work economically: we started to learn this very very recently and however we advanced a lot yet we do not know so much. Also it makes a fair description of all the voices there on economists: where we are, where we are moving, and you get a better idea where politicians and quoting out of context depending on their political allegiances... clearly some things do not work, some work, and the low level detail yet is not fully understood: there is a lot to apply differently and create different societies however there are already some sound macroeconomics concepts that apply you like or not. Not physics but getting closer maybe...