Freakonomics, Steven Dubner and Steven Levitt—Very fun, cool little stories about economics, not super educational but drives an interest
Naked Economics, Charles Wheelan—The best intro I’ve read to standard economic ideas, fun and easy to read
Poor Economics, Banerjee and Duflo—A deep dive on how some anti-poverty interventions are radically more effective than others, and how details matter a lot. Pretty dry and you’ll forget most of the content, but the best case for evidence-based altruism I’ve read
Justice, Michael Sandel—Great intro to moral philosophy, covers all the major schools of thoughts with tons of fun anecdotes and thought experiments
I still remember the experiments in (I think) India where they demonstrated that even for people living in extreme poverty, where most of marginal spending goes to food, increased income frequently resulted in people buying better-tasting calories, not just more calories. A+.
Freakonomics, Steven Dubner and Steven Levitt—Very fun, cool little stories about economics, not super educational but drives an interest
Naked Economics, Charles Wheelan—The best intro I’ve read to standard economic ideas, fun and easy to read
Poor Economics, Banerjee and Duflo—A deep dive on how some anti-poverty interventions are radically more effective than others, and how details matter a lot. Pretty dry and you’ll forget most of the content, but the best case for evidence-based altruism I’ve read
Justice, Michael Sandel—Great intro to moral philosophy, covers all the major schools of thoughts with tons of fun anecdotes and thought experiments
Re Poor Economics:
I still remember the experiments in (I think) India where they demonstrated that even for people living in extreme poverty, where most of marginal spending goes to food, increased income frequently resulted in people buying better-tasting calories, not just more calories. A+.