* The book is written in a lively style and includes text boxes highlighting little-known and often amusing facts about these famous economists, all of which add colour to the text * Provides a comprehensive overview of the historical development of economic thought and of its relevance to contemporary policy issues * Offers an Austrian economics perspective, in contrast to the competing textbooks * Updated to cover MMT (modern monetary theory), climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic; minimum wage debates, Schumpeter and socialism, Malthus and immigration, and more