Short, Readable Book on Economics

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I was surprised to discover recently that "Economics in One Lesson" really didn't seem out of date.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!