Economics and Finance      Economics and Finance      Basic Economics 3rd Ed: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy Thomas Sowell Basic Books, 2007 Should Be Mandatory + Thorough, informative, educational, engaging. Great book. + Should be required reading + Basic Economics + Basic Economics             Human Action: A Treatise on Economics Ludwig von Mises Liberty Fund Inc., 2007 Masterful - permit me to add a bit of humble insight however... + The best economic treatise ever written + human action + An unknown gem + The magnum opus of Austrian economics             Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History Milton Friedman Harvest/HBJ Book, 1994 Review for a Nobel Prize winner... + Neither the Govt. nor the Central bank controls the money supply.The private commercial banking industry controls the money + Very interesting + Excellent + Best explanation of what money really is and how it works             History of the American Economy with Economic Applications Gary M. Walton, Hugh Rockoff South-Western College Pub, 2004 best on the subject + Rockoff is the greatest American Historian ever. This is definitely the best introductory book there is on the subject. This was a supplemental book for an undergraduate class of mine, but I read it anyway. The authors lucid writing allows this book to be thoroughly understood by all readers despite their backround in economics. I truly believe ...             Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics Henry Hazlitt Three Rivers Press, 1988 A Must Read for New Economists and Non Economists + If you read only one economics book, read this + An extraordinary book Economics in One Lesson was written by a journalist, not an economist. That said, it offers clarity that many economists can't. But don't be fooled, Hazltt was one of the few journalists who could understand economics. The book is designed to give you a basic understanding of economic thinking ...             Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 Milton Friedman, Anna Jacobson Schwartz Princeton University Press, 1971 Negative Review Missed the Very Point of the Book + One of the Top-10 Economics Books + A tremendous amount of work combined with a misspecified model + Classic in the canon of economic theory             From Marx to Mises: Post Capitalist Society and the Challenge of Ecomic Calculation David Ramsay Steele Open Court, 1999 You Won't Be Disappointed + Summary: Mises was right + Miscalculations and botched economies + A book of the first importance             From Here to Economy: A Shortcut to Economic Literacy Todd G. Buchholz Plume, 1996 "A Short Cut to Economic Literacy" is an apt title + Greatly appreciated + Great! + A fine introduction, though now somewhat dated.             The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers [7th Edition] Robert L. Heilbroner Touchstone, 1999 A marvelous introduction to the world of economics + The Pen is Mightier than the Sword! It's a bit easy to typecast economics as nothing more than mindless pencil pushing, terminal curve shifting, and painful comparative advantage calculating. As far as the social sciences go, it's something of a black sheep, lacking the excitement of political science or the drama of history. The ...             Milton Friedman on Economics: Selected Papers Milton Friedman University of Chicago Press Journals, 2008 On his death in the autumn of 2006, Milton Friedman was lauded as “the grandmaster of free-market economic theory in the postwar era” by the New York Times and “the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century” by the Economist . Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1976, Friedman was both a highly respected economist and a prominent public ...             Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One Thomas Sowell Basic Books, 2003 Price controls lead to shortages + The 'look before you leap' principle applied to economics + Even nobility has real consequences + Good on its own merit. + Question for reviewers             Economic Facts and Fallacies Thomas Sowell Basic Books, 2007 Economic Facts and Fallacies + Review of Economic Facts & Fallacies + Great book, but at least 1 contradiction + Another Thomas Sowell great!             Basic Economics 3rd Ed: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy Thomas Sowell Basic Books, 2007 Should Be Mandatory + Thorough, informative, educational, engaging. Great book. + Should be required reading + Basic Economics + Basic Economics             Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History Milton Friedman Harvest/HBJ Book, 1994 Review for a Nobel Prize winner... + Neither the Govt. nor the Central bank controls the money supply.The private commercial banking industry controls the money + Very interesting + Excellent + Best explanation of what money really is and how it works             Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 Milton Friedman, Anna Jacobson Schwartz Princeton University Press, 1971 Negative Review Missed the Very Point of the Book + One of the Top-10 Economics Books + A tremendous amount of work combined with a misspecified model + Classic in the canon of economic theory          products you might be interested in        toavi.com    web we recommend A Must Read for New Economists and Non Economists randomly chosen book: Die Offenbarung