 | Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Buy new: £5.28 / Used from: £3.29 No one expects the black swan
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 | The Truth About Markets : Why Some Countries are Rich and Others Remain Poor by John Kay
Buy new: £7.17 / Used from: £3.70 Excellent book about what markets can and cannot do. Don't expect too much from them
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 | The Road to Serfdom (Routledge Classics) by F.A. Hayek
Buy new: £9.56 / Used from: £6.50 Live Free or die
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 | Why Most Things Fail: And How to Avoid It by Paul Ormerod
Buy new: £5.67 / Used from: £1.34 The social benefits of small scale failures, and learning from them
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 | Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt
Buy new: £4.95 / Used from: £1.86 Splendid unexpected juxtapositions
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 | The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £1.22 Lots of fun
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 | What's Left?: How Liberals Lost Their Way by Nick Cohen
Buy used from: £1.55 Not entirely economics, but it becomes apparent how awful left wingers economic knowledge is
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 | Plundering the Public Sector by David Craig
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £1.87 Nice work if you can get it. Very, very bad economics. What else would you expect if civil servants are involved?
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 | How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions by Francis Wheen
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Sharpens the old Hemingway internal crap detector
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 | The Insider: The Private Diaries of a Scandalous Decade by Piers Morgan
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Plausible deniabilty, and how tabloids work. Useful knowledge.
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 | Betraying the NHS: Health Abandoned by Michael Mandelstam
Buy new: £13.23 / Used from: £7.90 NHS economics: money but not as anyone else knows it.
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 | Fantasy Island by Larry Elliott
Buy new: £5.01 / Used from: £0.01 There'll be a huge price to pay when this fantasy crumbles
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 | The Political Economy of Health Care: A Clinical Perspective (Health & Society) by Julian Tudor Hart
Buy new: £13.57 / Used from: £10.00 The old leftie explains a way in which NHS can work, if we don't ask it to do too much, and if we all accept its limitations
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 | The Gods That Failed: How Blind Faith in Markets Has Cost Us Our Future by Larry Elliott
Buy used from: £1.63 A superb expose of current economics, and the wrecking work done by the "New Olympians"
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