Economics is difficult, you say. But no. To understand the rules invented by economists, you don’t have to be an economist yourself, says former UK government economic policy adviser Niall Kishtain. He analyzed the main ideas about wealth and poverty from Plato to Piketty and repackaged complex knowledge about production chains , inflation, the work of central banks and state capitalism. The result is a fascinating and concise summary from which you will learn:• where Adam Smith, Karl Marx and John Keynes were wrong• why the poor will not get richer, even if central banks print a few trillion more bills• who wins the dispute over private property• what “does » with reality the invisible hand of the market• is it possible to predict “black swans”• what irony is hidden in the Big Mac Index.