Naked Economics
"At last! A new edition of the economics book that won’t put you to sleep. In fact, you won’t be able to put this bestseller down. In our challenging economic climate, this perennial favorite of students and general readers is more than a good read, it’s a necessary investment—with a blessedly sure rate of return. This revised and updated edition includes commentary on hot topics such as automation, trade, income inequality, and America’s rising debt. Ten years after the financial crisis, Naked Economics examines how policymakers managed the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression."--Publisher's description.
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- I like to watch Economics Explained https://youtube.com/@EconomicsExplained
A book I read and enjoyed is "Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science". It helped me understand what economics even is.
- Naked Money/Naked Statistics/Naked Economics by Wheelan.
- Try "Naked Economics" by Charles Wheelan [1]. In my opinion, he does a good job of providing examples both of failed regulation and also situations where regulation is necessary and beneficial.
[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Naked-Economics-Undressing-Dismal-Sci...
- Highly recommend Naked Economics by Charles Wheelan.
- It depends how far into economics you want to get (and remember, I am not at all an economist, just an interested layperson).
A good book for getting started, IMO, is Charles Wheelan's "Naked Economics".
The first thing that I read was "Basic Economics" by Thomas Sowell, which I liked a lot and highly recommend - however, keep in mind that Thomas Sowell is very capitalist/right leaning, and the book is quite "biased".
A great textbook, if you really want to get further into economics, is Greg Mankiw's Principles of Economics (almost all undergrad economics textbooks are called "Principles of Economics", for some reason, so you have to search by author.) That's definitely the place to go if you want to have a more sophisticated understanding of economics than you'll just get by reading books.
- For what it's worth, I really enjoyed Naked Economics by Charles Wheelan, even though it may be considered a popular economics best seller. I though it offered a great introduction to a field I knew very little about.
