I picked this next economics book based on Amazon reviews and the fact that the author writes for The Economist. Turns out my selection criteria were ineffective. Greg Ip’s The Little Book of Economics is little: just 250 pages, lots of white space, lots of excerpts duplicated in highlight boxes and a little book, physically. […]
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After Naked Economics, I asked my economics instructors and my economics-savvy friends for some more book recommendations. Paul Krugman’s Depression Economics made all their lists (although several of them told me that they did not agree with his politics). So now I’m a Paul Krugman fan. His writing style (in both the book and in […] Several chapters from Charles Wheelan’s Naked Economics were required reading for a Pol/Econ class I took at work right before we left for Tel Aviv. Our economics professor recommended we read the whole book if we had time. I had time. I thoroughly enjoyed the book. Wheelan‘s goal was to write a book on […] |
