Recommend to me some good "popular" economics books

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...by which I mean: books that can help a smart person undestand economic concepts with which they have no previous experience.

Book recommendation threads are the best.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

this thread has some suggestions:
economics - where to begin?

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

paul samuelson - economics
joseph schumpeter - capitalism, socialism and democracy

― fcuss3n, Tuesday, 5 July 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

Adam Smith - Wealth of Nations

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

Philip Legrain - Open World: The Truth about Globalisation

― Uncledoj, Tuesday, 5 July 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

Diane Coyle - Sex, Drugs and Economics

I recommend this one for learning economic concepts without beng dragged down by the drearier mathematical aspects.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

From the other thread:

Oh, you should read The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Heilbroner. Basic introduction to the founders of economic theory.
-- Amateurist (amateuris...), January 15th, 2003.

Seconded. Really readable. Fun, even.

― Old Guy, Tuesday, 5 July 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

Freakonomics is the current hot one, right?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

Sweet, dudes. I'll have to check out that other thread (I probably should have done a search first, huh?).

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

xpost re: Freakonomics:
Found that lying around the house, so am reading it now. It's okay, but I don't think it'll really "help a smart person undestand economic concepts with which they have no previous experience". It's more of a "here's a few counterintuitive findings about non-boring stuff that may make you go hmm" rather than a general background/intro to economics.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life by David D. Friedman

Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science by Charles Wheelan

John Kenneth Galbraith's Age of Uncertainty is good, if you can enjoy his writing style (which i do). It was the accompaniment to a late 70s BBC doc on economics.

― john'n'chicago, Tuesday, 5 July 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

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