Let's Chat About Economics!: basic principles through everyday scenarios (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780990684602)

Michelle Balconi is a writer and speaker focused on creating connections between children and adults through economics. Before writing, Michelle worked in communications for 15 years alongside technology investors introducing first-to-market products. Michelle lives in California with her husband and two children after growing up in Florida and living many years in Massachusetts and Michigan. When she is not writing, Michelle loves to travel and chat it up with nearly everyone she meets. Dr. Arthur Laffer is the founder and chairman of Laffer Associates, an economic research firm focusing on interconnecting macroeconomic, political and demographic changes. Dr. Laffer was a member of President Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board (1981 - 1989) and was noted in TIME magazine's 1999 cover story as "One of the Century's Greatest Minds." Dr. Laffer is well known for the Laffer Curve, an illustration of the theory that there exists some tax rate between 0% and 100% that will result in maximum tax revenue for governments. He is a frequent cable news contributor and the author and co-author of many newspaper articles and books including Return to Prosperity and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of States. In addition to writing and speaking about economics, Dr. Laffer enjoys spending as much time as possible with his great grandchild and 11 grandchildren on their family farm where they explore nature and raise animals of many types. Mary Kinsora is a children's book illustrator currently working out of the Detroit Metro area. Having graduated from the College for Creative Studies with a bachelor's degree in illustration, she is currently working toward the creation of a new children's media company, and her own business in licensing products from her artwork. Mary is particularly interested in stories that are imaginative but help to educate and enrich children. In her free time, Mary enjoys hiking, drinking tea, spending time with her "gang of critters," and long chats with her grandmother.