 | The Mind of the Market: How Biology and Psychology Shape Our Economic Lives by Michael Shermer
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $6.59 This is an excellent introduction to recent scholarship in psychology and economics. Very easy read and a lot of fun.
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 | How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life by Thomas Gilovich
Buy new: $13.64 / Used from: $4.94 I love this one. It is bit dated but does a great job of introducing behavioral economics. Will completely change the way you think.
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 | The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz
Buy new: $10.79 / Used from: $3.69 An excellent introduction to the idea of positional happiness and the challenge it poses to modern capitalist societies.
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 | Law, Legislation and Liberty, Volume 1: Rules and Order by F. A. Hayek
Buy new: $19.55 / Used from: $7.63 Considerably more difficult book but the best encapsulation of Friedrich Hayek's ideas. If you want a softer intro, see the next book.
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 | The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek) by F. A. Hayek
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 | How The West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation Of The Industrial World by Nathan Rosenberg
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 | Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life (Economic Learning and Social Evolution)
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 | Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain
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 | Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
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 | Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler
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 | The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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