ARNOLD KLING
August 14, 2011
The Top Political Contributors
August 11, 2011
Gender and the New Commanding Heights
August 11, 2011
Jamie Galbraith Makes an Assumption
August 11, 2011
Macroeconometrics: The Science of Hubris
August 10, 2011
Real and Nominal Bond Yields
BRYAN CAPLAN
August 14, 2011
The Effect of Thumb Sucking on Income
August 12, 2011
The Voice of Cold, Hard Truth to All Would-Be Educators
August 12, 2011
Ability, Morality, and Prosperity: A Paper and a Report
August 11, 2011
The Theory of Time and Frittering
August 10, 2011
Male Variance and the Remnants of the Gender Gap
DAVID HENDERSON
August 9, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken", Part Two
August 8, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken"
August 5, 2011
James Bovard on the Peace Corps
August 4, 2011
Summers Way Off on FDR and 1941
August 3, 2011
The "Amazon" Tax
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I like "The Choice" by Russ.
Unfortunately, there's no Kindle version. Do you have a book recommendation for a reader living in the 21st century?
I'd buy that Arnold Kling book.
Charles Koch’s “The Science of Success”
http://www.amazon.com/Science-Success-Market-Based-Management-Largest/dp/0470139889
I blogged this book with:
"This is not a self-help book. It is an excellent slim introduction to free market economics and economic thinking masquerading as a business book.[...]"
As I wrote at MR:
Henry Hazlitt. Its being written decades ago itself makes an important point.
Something newer:
David R. Henderson, The Joy of Freedom: An Economist’s Odyssey
I always liked Charles Wheelan's Naked Economics.
Jim Cox - Concise Guide to Economics
On amazon.com for $12.95 buy the paperback "Economics Made Easy" 2nd edition, 2010. Also available in Kindle format. Plain, straightforward "executive summary" of basic economics.
Eveline Adomait's book "Cocktail Party Economics" was written with the kind of audience Tyler refers to in mind.
"The Economics of Public Issues" by Roger LeRoy Miller, Douglass North and Daniel Benjamin.
Miller and Benjamin have a similar book called "The Economics of Macro Issues"
Both books have short chapters on about 30 issue
What about Buchanan's Cost & Choice?
What about Thomas Sowell, Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy?
[NB: The reason I ask this as a question is because I haven't read this particular tome myself. In general, I have been impressed with Sowell's books and too-often-disappointed with his syndicated columns.]
Tim Hartford's "Undercover Economist" hands down.
Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
Free to Choose by Milton Friedman
Invisible Heart by Russ Roberts
Globalization by Don Boudreaux
I was surprised to discover recently that "Economics in One Lesson" really didn't seem out of date.
But I think the best introductory book on economics is "Eat the Rich" by P. J. O'Rourke. It's lively and funny, but it does also explain concepts like comparative advantage. And new readers are probably more likely to finish it.
chipotle, Sowell's book is excellent (check out the rave reviews on Amazon), but it would require some motivation to get through it, just because of it's length and it's no-nonsense approach.
Meant to say "its" not "it's" -- Damn!