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Basic Economics
by Thomas Sowell
Sowell's thick, equation-free introduction: prices, markets, labor, time, risk, national economies. Market-oriented, plain-spoken and thorough.
Read it if…
you want a comprehensive, jargon-free economics text.
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Skip it if…
you want a short read; see Hazlitt.
Try instead: The Wealth of Nations →
Three things you will actually use
- Prices carry information.
- Scarcity forces trade-offs.
- Ask what happens next.
Do this first
Read the chapters on prices and on the role of profits.
Our verdict
Sowell's primer.
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