Man Vs. Markets by Paddy Hirsch of the public radio program "Marketplace" is economics explained, pure and simple. It's a book written for the layperson who wouldn't know a "bond" from an "option," and who believes that a "future" is when we'll all have flying cars. Here is an illuminating, insightful, and wonderfully witty journey of discovery through the often confusing financial markets, offering clear, relatable explanations and definitions of the system's various instruments, yet less simplistically than the popular ...for Dummies series. Man Vs. Markets is a must-read handbook for everyday investors, for serious students of finance and economics, and for anyone trying to understand the day's business and economics news.
Paddy Hirsch is a Senior Producer at Marketplace, responsible for personal finance coverage on all of the Marketplace programs and on marketplace.org. He's also the producer of the personal finance show Marketplace Money, and of the Marketplace Whiteboard, an award-winning video explainer of financial and economic terms.
Paddy got his start in journalism with an internship at the BBC in Glasgow, Scotland. His has worked in Hong Kong for CNBC; in Bosnia for the Open Broadcast Network; in Hanoi for the Vietnam Economic Times; and in the U.S. for Institutional Investor Newsletters and Standard & Poor's. Before becoming a journalist, he served as an officer in the Royal Marines.
Paddy went to school in Ireland and England. He is a graduate of the University of Warwick, and a Knight Fellow, Class of 2011. He now lives in Los Angeles, where he runs, surfs and climbs mountains in his spare time.
