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Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Patrick Collison
Thomas Sowell's deliberately introductory survey of how prices, incentives, and tradeoffs work across housing, labor, international trade, and discrimination. Dense with empirical examples. Its main contribution to this list is showing the gap between policy intentions and policy consequences.
Economics for daily life: motivating people, choosing food, giving to charity.
Recommended by: Graham Duncan
Hazlitt's 1946 distillation of Bastiat's 'broken window' insight: good economic reasoning requires seeing both what is visible and what is made invisible by a policy. A short book that teaches a single analytical habit, and that habit is genuinely useful regardless of your politics.
“I've given dozens of copies of this classic to students... The book should be required reading on every campus.” — Christopher Bloomstran
Source: Semper Augustus 2020 Letter to Clients, 'To Read or Not to Read', p. 57
Recommended by: Christopher Bloomstran, Changpeng Zhao and 3 others
Incentives and data applied to cheating teachers, sumo wrestlers and other puzzles.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Andrew Lokenauth and 6 others
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