50 notions clés sur l'économie pour les Nuls (2022)

This book is certainly an excellent introduction to 50 of the key concepts concerning economics but there are clear problems, namely:

- The ideas of Thomas Robert Malthus have clearly been misunderstood and are misrepresented in this book. He did NOT say, as this Author believes he did, that population growth would lead to starvation and famine etc. and that the human populace must therefore control its growth to ensure the future of mankind. Malthus actually wrote that an increase in a nation's food production improved the well-being of the populace, but the improvement was temporary because it led to population growth, which in turn restored the original per capita production level and that Populations had a tendency to grow until the lower class suffered hardship and want and greater susceptibility to famine and disease.

As you can clearly see the Author has either knowingly or unknowingly misrepresented his ideas in this book.

- The other biggest problem is the needless bias towards France and the French that actually goes so far as to be factually untrue. Of course, I appreciate the author is French but he should refrain from simply lying. For example on page 271 he states that only two countries (Japan and America) truly have comparable working hours to those in France because the countries where people do work more hours are simply underdeveloped countries. From some simple research and cross-checking with multiple sources this is entirely incorrect. According to the World Economic Forum, for instance, there are 31 countries ahead of France for total hours worked per worker and the countries include: Holland, Portugal, Italy, Spain, Austria, U.K., U.S.A., Finland, Sweden, Belgium... hardly "undeveloped countries" are they?

Aside from this and some small typos here and there the book is generally very good.

5/5