 | The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric Beinhocker
Buy used from: £10.04 Really challenges you to realign your ideas about where economics is headed
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 | Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £3.46 Recommended to me by a friend - was really the book that switched me on to thinking about the new global economy
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 | The World is Flat: The Globalized World in the Twenty-first Century by Thomas Friedman
Buy used from: £2.11 A good companion to the Stiglitz book - not quite as convincing, but really interesting all the same
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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 This is great fun - shows how economic thinking can be applied to all sorts of issues
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 | The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
Buy used from: £5.00 Freakonomics for the UK
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 | Everlasting Light Bulbs: How Economics Illuminates the World by John Kay
Buy new: £4.86 / Used from: £1.95 Loved his columns in the FT, and this book doesn't disappoint
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 | Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins
Buy new: £13.89 / Used from: £12.28 A classic - really intelligent look at making the most of your business
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 | Happiness: Lessons from a New Science by Richard Layard
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £1.52 Sets out the new thinking that is revolutionising economic ideas
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 | Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared M. Diamond
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £3.24 Complex and thought-provoking look at world history
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 | Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond
Buy new: £6.59 / Used from: £4.98 A brilliant investigation of the future for our globalised world
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