Best Popular Economics Books on Goodreads
4. 
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by:
Malcolm Gladwell
4.01 avg rating β 844,240 ratings 5. 
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness 3.84 avg rating β 92,729 ratings
7. 
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World β and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
by:
Hans Rosling
4.36 avg rating β 197,287 ratings 
10. 
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
by:
Adam Tooze
4.28 avg rating β 4,042 ratings 11. 
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty 4.28 avg rating β 23,741 ratings
13. 
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by:
Steven D. Levitt
4.01 avg rating β 885,814 ratings 
15. 
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by:
Jared Diamond
4.04 avg rating β 445,032 ratings 16. 
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by:
Dan Ariely
4.12 avg rating β 129,362 ratings 
18. 
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets 4.08 avg rating β 69,675 ratings
19. 
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
by:
Daron AcemoΔlu
4.09 avg rating β 59,210 ratings 19. 
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
by:
Michael Lewis
3.99 avg rating β 62,915 ratings 
23. 
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
by:
Naomi Klein
4.29 avg rating β 51,931 ratings 
26. 
The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves
by:
Dan Ariely
3.93 avg rating β 16,724 ratings 27. 
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
by:
Bethany McLean
4.22 avg rating β 27,091 ratings 
29. 
Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science
by:
Charles Wheelan
4.03 avg rating β 19,280 ratings 30. 
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
by:
Amity Shlaes
3.91 avg rating β 6,199 ratings 
34. 
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
by:
Peter Thiel
4.15 avg rating β 381,662 ratings 36. 
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
by:
Steven D. Levitt
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 133,657 ratings 
40. 
The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
by:
Hernando de Soto
3.99 avg rating β 4,345 ratings 
42. 
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century 3.69 avg rating β 102,339 ratings
43. 
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
by:
Shoshana Zuboff
4.06 avg rating β 12,764 ratings 
46. 
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future 4.02 avg rating β 9,789 ratings
46. 
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
by:
Kate Raworth
4.17 avg rating β 15,074 ratings 
49. 
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
by:
Adam Smith
3.88 avg rating β 34,379 ratings 49. 
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
by:
Ha-Joon Chang
4.20 avg rating β 5,607 ratings 
52. 
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions FailβBut Some Don't
by:
Nate Silver
3.97 avg rating β 51,882 ratings 53. 
The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home
by:
Dan Ariely
4.03 avg rating β 35,750 ratings 
54. 
All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis
by:
Bethany McLean
4.04 avg rating β 7,655 ratings 56. 
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are 3.90 avg rating β 42,037 ratings
58. 
Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy 3.88 avg rating β 4,042 ratings
60. 
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis β and Themselves 4.15 avg rating β 41,834 ratings
62. 
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
by:
Cathy O'Neil
3.87 avg rating β 29,311 ratings 63. 
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
by:
Niall Ferguson
3.90 avg rating β 30,145 ratings 
67. 
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
by:
Roger Lowenstein
4.20 avg rating β 30,804 ratings 
70. 
A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing 4.14 avg rating β 39,407 ratings
72. 
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by:
Matthew Desmond
4.47 avg rating β 109,940 ratings 75. 
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
by:
Naomi Klein
4.16 avg rating β 27,260 ratings 76. 
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
by:
Bryan Burrough
4.28 avg rating β 42,418 ratings 77. 
When to Rob a Bank: ...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants
by:
Steven D. Levitt
3.53 avg rating β 14,871 ratings 78. 
Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and the Government Bailout Will Make Things Worse 4.08 avg rating β 2,476 ratings
79. 
The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve 4.29 avg rating β 6,556 ratings
81. 
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
by:
Jeffrey D. Sachs
3.69 avg rating β 11,196 ratings 82. 
Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
by:
Thomas Sowell
4.37 avg rating β 13,814 ratings 83. 
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
by:
Liaquat Ahamed
4.03 avg rating β 16,187 ratings 
85. 
86. 
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
by:
Charles Mackay
3.82 avg rating β 4,975 ratings 
87. 
And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future
by:
Yanis Varoufakis
4.11 avg rating β 3,310 ratings 
91. 
The Global Minotaur: America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy
by:
Yanis Varoufakis
4.17 avg rating β 2,405 ratings 
96. 
The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy
by:
Mervyn A. King
4.07 avg rating β 2,180 ratings 97. 
The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008
by:
Paul Krugman
3.83 avg rating β 8,843 ratings 97. 
The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy 4.07 avg rating β 3,565 ratings
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