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Economic books I've found interesting and useful
A Listmania! list by Dr. Nicholas P. G. Davies (Halifax, UK)

1. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The list author says:
	"No one expects the black swan"

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(70 customer reviews)

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2. The Truth About Markets : Why Some Countries are Rich and Others Remain Poor by John Kay

The list author says:
	"Excellent book about what markets can and cannot do. Don't expect too much from them"

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(23 customer reviews)

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3. The Road to Serfdom (Routledge Classics) by F.A. Hayek

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	"Live Free or die"

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(50 customer reviews)

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4. Why Most Things Fail: And How to Avoid It by Paul Ormerod

The list author says:
	"The social benefits of small scale failures, and learning from them"

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(7 customer reviews)

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5. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt

The list author says:
	"Splendid unexpected juxtapositions"

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(246 customer reviews) | 1 customer discussion

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6. The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford

The list author says:
	"Lots of fun"

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7. What's Left?: How Liberals Lost Their Way by Nick Cohen

The list author says:
	"Not entirely economics, but it becomes apparent how awful left wingers economic knowledge is"

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8. Plundering the Public Sector by David Craig

The list author says:
	"Nice work if you can get it. Very, very bad economics. What else would you expect if civil servants are involved?"

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(6 customer reviews) | 1 customer discussion

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9. How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions by Francis Wheen

The list author says:
	"Sharpens the old Hemingway internal crap detector"

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10. The Insider: The Private Diaries of a Scandalous Decade by Piers Morgan

The list author says:
	"Plausible deniabilty, and how tabloids work. Useful knowledge."

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11. Betraying the NHS: Health Abandoned by Michael Mandelstam

The list author says:
	"NHS economics: money but not as anyone else knows it."

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12. Fantasy Island by Larry Elliott

The list author says:
	"There'll be a huge price to pay when this fantasy crumbles"

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(16 customer reviews)

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13. The Political Economy of Health Care: A Clinical Perspective (Health & Society) by Julian Tudor Hart

The list author says:
	"The old leftie explains a way in which NHS can work, if we don't ask it to do too much, and if we all accept its limitations"

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14. The Gods That Failed: How Blind Faith in Markets Has Cost Us Our Future by Larry Elliott

The list author says:
	"A superb expose of current economics, and the wrecking work done by the "New Olympians""

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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything forum return policy?	1	15 Mar 2012
The Insider: The Private Diaries of a Scandalous Decade forum Phone Hacking - page 279	0	13 Jul 2011
Plundering the Public Sector forum The book is available	0	13 Apr 2008