Economics has become a taboo topic because is not well understood. As a taboo topic it doesn't get discussed, and since it is not discussed, it is not understood-what a vicious cycle! Shying away from open discussions about money, budgets, markets, and trade has resulted in many misconceptions. Economics is all around us, and with a little common sense understanding of economic principals, Jonathan M. Lamb changes the way people view the world. Economics is Like Sex advocates that economics isn't a boring subject filled with charts and theories cooked up by some dead guys who lived centuries ago. Economics is about decisions. Decisions that relate to money, life, love, and happiness. Economics is not just for government and business, but is a way of everyday life, and some very simple economic thinking can make life just a little bit less complicated when it comes to money. Money can't buy love or happiness, but Jonathan Lamb opens the taboo topic to provide a common sense understanding of how basic, easy, common sense economic principals can change the way people view the world.
Author Biography:
Jonathan M. Lamb is a Millennial Entrepreneur, Economist, Consultant, and Visionary Leader who resides in his hometown of Muncie, Indiana with his wife and two boys. A graduate of the Miller College of Business at Ball State University in Muncie Indiana, Lamb holds bachelor degrees in Economics, Risk Management, and Insurance, and was a hurdler on the BSU track team. He is part of the first wave of Millennials to join the work force, and is a Masters and Ph.D. in Economics scholar who has gone on to become a commodity trader and entrepreneur. Lamb spent 8 years on a trading floor as a spot electricity trader where he oversaw a book of business with over $3 billion in assets. He has since started seven small businesses, and earned an MBA from North Carolina State University where he was a McLauchlan Leadership Fellow.
Besides managing a multi-billion trading portfolio, Lamb has worked as a business developer for a commodity hedge fund, and as a business owner he has managed a work force of over 60 employees in his experiences owning a construction company, a childcare franchise, a wholesale distribution company, a textile company, and currently an economic consulting firm. He is the founder and owner of OptoeV, INC, an agriculture and energy technology company in Muncie, Indiana. With simple, common sense economic principals, Lamb is active in holding the government accountable for fiscal policy and laws that impact not only individuals, but also business, towns, cities, and all Americans, raising the topic that in our every expanding global economy, economics reaches every corner of the world.
