The Everyone talks about the economy, but nobody does anything about it!

You’re no idiot, of course. You know expansion is good and recession is bad. But what forces lead one or the other? It’s not always easy to get a grip on the various influencing factors, let alone the many theories on how they work.

This witty, entertaining, accessible introduction to the great economic thinkers throughout history—Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, and more—shows how their ideas apply to our modern world. In this revised edition, renowned economist Todd Buchhloz offers an insightful and informed perspective on key economic issues in the new millennium: increasing demand for energy, the rise of China, international trade, aging populations, health care, and the effects of global warming. New Ideas from Dead Economists is a fascinating guide to understanding both the evolution of economic theory and our complex contemporary economy.

Selected by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the "hundred most influential books since the war"

How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? In this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of his immensely influential economic philosophy...

Most people relate economics with broad and complicated conceptions, like the stock-market, big business, and international trade. Most people also assume that economists are dismally technical.

An economist's version of The Way Things Work, this engaging volume is part field guide to economics and part expose of the economic principles lurking behind daily events, explaining everything from traffic jams to high coffee prices.

The economy is central to all our lives, but for many of us it is shrouded in mystery. Why do house prices rise and stock markets fall? How does it affect us when interest rates go up, and why? What is deflation, and is it worse than inflation? Does a budget deficit matter? Why do some countries appear to be condemned to permanent poverty?

Economics is not the study of money; it is the study of value. Everything is determined by our values. The science of everything is what economics is. And here, in More Sex is Safer Sex, what the reader will find is everything.

With his witty and instructive book The Armchair Economist, Steven Landsburg won popularity and acclaim by using economics to illuminate the mysteries of daily life, and using daily life to illuminate the mysteries of economics.

This book is a well-reasoned and insightful introduction to economics; it introduces you to the fundamental concepts underlying the field of economics. As the back cover pronounces, the book is without graphs, curves or equations, which can be a plus or minus depending on what you are after.