Good economics books for beginners?

University course discussion for economics.

Announcements Posted on
TSR launches Learn Together! - Our new subscription to help improve your learning 16-05-2013
The Universities forums need new moderators - nominations please! 06-05-2013
IMPORTANT: You must wait until midnight (morning exams)/4.30AM (afternoon exams) to discuss Edexcel exams and until 1pm/6pm the following day for STEP and IB exams. Please read before posting, including for rules for practical and oral exams. 28-04-2013
Sign in to Reply
  1. quotidian's Avatar
    • Full Member
    • Posts: 112
    Good economics books for beginners?
    I was wondering if anyone could recommend any good economics books for me to read. I've already been recommended and have read both Freakonomics books so I was wondering if anyone could recommend a book in written a similar easy reading style but maybe more about macroeconomics.

    Thanks
    A.

    PS. Are there any books that look good to say you have read on a PS?
  2. MagicNMedicine's Avatar
    • TSR Idol
    • Location: This sceptred isle
    • Posts: 9,644
    Re: Good economics books for beginners?
    The Accidental Theorist by Paul Krugman.

    The best book all round book for beginners is Principles of Economics by Greg Mankiw - new copies are expensive but you can find older editions cheap on amazon and they are just as good for the theory. It's a textbook but written in a more easy reading way than most textbooks, and the early parts of that book eg his ten principles are a great way to really understand how to think like an economist. His blog is worth reading too: http://gregmankiw.blogspot.co.uk/
  3. lucas13's Avatar
    • Peer Of The TSR Realm
    • Posts: 1,552
    Re: Good economics books for beginners?
    freakonomics, the undercover economist are the ones most people read.
Sign in to Reply
Share this discussion:  
Article updates
Moderators

We have a brilliant team of more than 60 volunteers looking after discussions on The Student Room, helping to make it a fun, safe and useful place to hang out.

Reputation gems:
The Reputation gems seen here indicate how well reputed the user is, red gem indicate negative reputation and green indicates a good rep.
Post rating score:
These scores show if a post has been positively or negatively rated by our members.