The Kids' Timeconomy: What Supply and Demand Really Are

By S. Murtonen

The Kids' Timeconomy: What Supply and Demand Really Are introduces young readers to one of the most important ideas in economics through simple stories, clear examples, and child-friendly explanations.

Instead of treating supply and demand as dry charts or grown-up business language, this book shows children how needs, choices, time, skill, and usefulness shape what people want and what others offer. Readers learn that demand begins when people need or want something that saves time, solves a problem, or makes life better. Supply begins when someone uses skill, effort, tools, and time to provide it.

Through everyday examples, the book helps children see markets as human systems where people exchange value, respond to needs, learn from feedback, and improve over time. It explains why some things become more wanted, why shortages happen, why too much of something can lose value, and why good ideas must be useful to others.

Warm, thoughtful, and easy to follow, this book helps children understand supply and demand not just as prices going up and down, but as part of the larger Timeconomy idea: human time, skill, and real usefulness are at the heart of value.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GZDQGH4K
• ISBN13: 9798195216139
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"