With all of the chipperness and quirky explanatory stories of a Planet Money podcast, Myassi’s book offers an introductory course to micro and macro economics. Using brief chapters, numerous illustrations, informative pull-out boxes, and colorful design, he explains GDP, inflation, the efficiency of free markets, the commodification of leisure time, enshittification (that’s a real economics term) of social media, the hidden cost of credit cards that offer free airline miles, and numerous other activities, not all of which I would have at first recognized as lying within the realm of economics. While there are several allusions to the downside of neoliberal economics – widening income inequality, pollution, climate change, unaffordable health care, housing shortages – the book sticks to its premise that for the most part our current economic system functions pretty well. I suppose it does if you are among those wealthy enough to listen to an NPR broadcast of Planet Money or can afford to purchase this book.