 | Naked Economics - Undressing the Dismal Science by Charles Wheelan
Buy new: £7.83 / Used from: £4.91 good glimpse of the way economists think
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 | The Armchair Economist: Economics and Everyday Life by Steven E. Landsburg
Buy new: £5.91 / Used from: £3.45 very entertaining
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 | The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £0.97 another good example of economic thinking applied to the everyday
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 | Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt
Buy new: £4.95 / Used from: £1.95 economics applied to some more offbeat topics
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 | The Accidental Theorist: And Other Dispatches from the Dismal Science (Penguin Business Library) by Paul Krugman
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £2.99 essays on macroeconomics from the man who invented the 'hot-dog and sausage' model of the world
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 | Peddling Prosperity: Economic Sense and Nonsense in the Age of Diminished Expectations by P Krugman
Buy used from: £3.86 another collection by krugman; see also 'pop internationalism', 'the return of depression economics'
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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: £4.10 a look at international trade
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 | Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £2.99 a look at the world bank and imf by an insider; more political than other books on this list (eg see also 'the great unravelling' by paul krugman and 'the roaring nineties' also by stiglitz)
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 | Memoirs of an Unregulated Economist by George J. Stigler
Buy new: £10.88 / Used from: £9.52 a more autobiographical book by one of the chicago school
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 | The Road to Serfdom (Routledge Classics) by F.A. Hayek
Buy new: £9.56 / Used from: £6.99 Hayek argues strongly against socialist measures, arguing that they inevitably lead to reduced liberty. Set in the context of his time, Thatcher's favourite economic thinker seems less right-wing
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 | The Logic of Life: Uncovering the New Economics of Everything by Tim Harford
Buy used from: £1.95 If anything, better than the undercover economist
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 | Death and Life of Great American Cities (Modern Library) by Jane Jacobs
Buy new: £10.09 / Used from: £9.00 Stunning; who would have thought a book about urban design would be so interesting? I spent half an hour looking out of my window and saw things I never saw before.
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 | The Economic Naturalist: Why Economics Explains Almost Everything by Robert H. Frank
Buy new: £5.07 / Used from: £0.01 A look at some questions posed by students from Frank's economics classes. I have some myself: why are single train tickets almost as much as returns; why the convention for men to propose to women?
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 | More Sex is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics by Steven E. Landsburg
Buy used from: £2.61 Another good collection from Landsburg
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 | Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes and How to Correct Them: Lessons from the New Science of Behavioural Economics by Gary Belsky
Buy new: £6.08 / Used from: £3.42 Behavioural finance (or 'finance meets human foibles') framed as a self-help book
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 | The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (Penguin Press Science) by Matt Ridley
Buy new: £7.17 / Used from: £3.41 It's about sex, not economics, but there is plenty of crossover as Ridley asks why sex exists at all and investigates the resulting incentives which make life so interesting
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 | No Logo: No Space. No Choice. No Jobs by Naomi Klein
Buy new: £5.17 / Used from: £0.01 This affected me greatly when I first read it, but I later decided Klein was barking up the wrong tree. eg the huge recognition of brands was what made protests against their products so effective
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