Economics
How to Lie with Statistics
Paperback
If you want to outsmart a crook, learn his tricks—Darrell Huff explains exactly how in the classic How to Lie with Statistics.
Radical Uncertainty: Decision-Making Beyond the Numbers
Hardback
Much economic advice is bogus quantification, warn two leading experts in this essential book. Invented numbers offer false security; we need instead robust narratives that yield the confidence to manage uncertainty.
The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy
Paperback
“If [The End of Alchemy] gets the attention it deserves, it might just save the world.” —Michael Lewis, Bloomberg View
End This Depression Now!
Hardback
A call-to-arms from Nobel Prize–winning economist and best-selling author Paul Krugman.
The Accidental Theorist: And Other Dispatches from the Dismal Science
Paperback
"Everything Mr. Krugman has to say is smart, important and even fun to read . . . he is one of a handful of very bright, relatively young economists who do everything well." — Peter Passell, New York Times Book Review