[Bateman]

Does anyone know any good economic books that i should read?

i don't want things like freakonomics, undercover economist etc. i want something meaty with a lot of theory.

I'm going to buy it today so if i buy your book then you get rep.

[Ramos_Spurs]

go onto the economist website plenty on there.

[Economist1]

There are plenty of other threads about this. Here's what I said on one of them:


The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford is a good but quite basic book that talks about how Economics is embedded in everyday life. Charles Wheelan's 'Naked Economics - Undressing the Dismal Science' is quite similar. You might also want to consider Steven Landsburg's 'The Armchair Economist' or books by Paul Ormerod eg. 'Everlasting Lightbulbs' or 'Why most things Fail.' I found Paul Krugman's 'The Accidental Theorist' quite interesting. My favourite general introductory Economics book though, would have to be John Kay's 'The Truth about Markets.' Be warned though, it's pitched at a slightly higher level than Freakonomics or the Undercover Economist.

If you're interested in more general issues (which you won't really need for AS level - only if you want to take Economics further), I can recommend the works of Stiglitz's 'Globalization and its Discontents,' 'The Roaring Nineties' and 'Making Globalization Work'; Martin Wolf's 'Why Globalization Works'; Jagdish Bhagwati's 'In Defense of Globalization'; David Smith's 'The Dragon and the Elephant'; Muhammad Yunus' 'Creating a World Without Poverty'; and Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat.'

If you have the patience to go through the whole book, then Alan Greenspan's 'The Age of Turbulence' is well worth a read, although the second part of the book is much more focused on the economic issues than the first, which is mostly an autobiographical account. If you're looking for something on game theory, then Avinash Dixit and Barry Nalebuff's 'Thinking Strategically' is probably your best bet.

There's also quite a lot of good material available on the internet. Check out the Tutor2u website, Greg Mankiw's blog and Tim Harford's 'Undercover Economist' posts on the Financial Times website.

[Bateman]

Originally Posted by Economist1

There are plenty of other threads about this. Here's what I said on one of them:


The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford is a good but quite basic book that talks about how Economics is embedded in everyday life. Charles Wheelan's 'Naked Economics - Undressing the Dismal Science' is quite similar. You might also want to consider Steven Landsburg's 'The Armchair Economist' or books by Paul Ormerod eg. 'Everlasting Lightbulbs' or 'Why most things Fail.' I found Paul Krugman's 'The Accidental Theorist' quite interesting. My favourite general introductory Economics book though, would have to be John Kay's 'The Truth about Markets.' Be warned though, it's pitched at a slightly higher level than Freakonomics or the Undercover Economist.

If you're interested in more general issues (which you won't really need for AS level - only if you want to take Economics further), I can recommend the works of Stiglitz's 'Globalization and its Discontents,' 'The Roaring Nineties' and 'Making Globalization Work'; Martin Wolf's 'Why Globalization Works'; Jagdish Bhagwati's 'In Defense of Globalization'; David Smith's 'The Dragon and the Elephant'; Muhammad Yunus' 'Creating a World Without Poverty'; and Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat.'

If you have the patience to go through the whole book, then Alan Greenspan's 'The Age of Turbulence' is well worth a read, although the second part of the book is much more focused on the economic issues than the first, which is mostly an autobiographical account. If you're looking for something on game theory, then Avinash Dixit and Barry Nalebuff's 'Thinking Strategically' is probably your best bet.

There's also quite a lot of good material available on the internet. Check out the Tutor2u website, Greg Mankiw's blog and Tim Harford's 'Undercover Economist' posts on the Financial Times website.

Out of the books you mentioned what would be the best in terms of general economic theory, i want something more advanced than freakonomics and the undercover economist but nothing that specialises in one area,

[Economist1]

Originally Posted by Bateman

Out of the books you mentioned what would be the best in terms of general economic theory, i want something more advanced than freakonomics and the undercover economist but nothing that specialises in one area,

'The Truth About Markets' - John Kay