Economics for Busy People Now Available!
It’s a Real Book Now
For the past several months, you’ve been reading Economics for Busy People one chapter at a time. Some of you started at my story about a razor clam. Some of you jumped in somewhere around opportunity costs. A few of you have probably been reading out of order, which — given that the book is about how people make decisions with limited time — feels appropriate.
As of this past week, Economics for Busy People is officially published and available on Amazon as both an ebook and a paperback.
The ebook launched first. Within 24 hours it hit #1 New Release across every sub-category it’s listed in and reached the Top 10 in parent categories. The print edition went live last week and is hovering around the Top 25 in Best Seller and Top 5 in New Releases.
I’m so excited to share this with you all, my early readers, as well as the rest of the world.
This book exists because I believe economics is the most useful and least utilized subject available to you. Not simply the economics of GDP forecasts and Fed press conferences. The economics of how you actually make decisions, why trade-offs are unavoidable, and how millions of strangers cooperate every day without anyone directing them to.
You’ve read the chapters. You’ve seen the ideas in action. If they’ve changed how you see even one decision — at the grocery store, at work, at the ballot box — then the book did its job.
What I’d ask of you.
If this book has been useful to you, two things would help enormously.
First, leave a review on Amazon. Honest. Short is fine. Reviews in the first few weeks matter more than most people realize. They’re how the book reaches people who haven’t found it yet. But, if you do want to leave a review then Amazon tends to only count reviews of verified purchases or downloads (the ebook is free for Kindle Unlimited, $5 otherwise, and $16.99 for the paperback).
Second, send it to someone. You probably know a person — a friend, a coworker, a family member — who cares about making good decisions but thinks economics isn’t for them. This book was written for them.
The print and ebook is available here.
What’s next.
The full Economics for Busy People video series is coming soon — every chapter as a short, watchable episode. The audiobook is right behind it (because I know busiest people like to listen rather than read). And this Substack is about to shift from publishing the book (theres 4 more chapters to close it all out) to putting it to work. Applied questions. Real situations. The economic way of thinking, aimed at things you actually deal with.
Thank you for reading. Seriously.
Let’s get busy.
— Cameron