Free to Choose

I found Milton Friedman's "Free To Choose" fundamental and very readable. https://www.amazon.com/Free-Choose-Statement-Milton-Friedman... (https://www.amazon.com/Free-Choose-Statement-Milton-Friedman/dp/0156334607)

Economics in One Lesson by Hazlitt: http://jim.com/econ/, http://www.fee.org/pdf/books/Economics_in_one_lesson.pdf Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell Applied Economics by Thomas Sowell Free to Choose by Milton Friedman (video series, too) Use of Knowledge in Society by Hayek (short, non-technical paper which is full of brilliant insights): http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnw1.html Not a book, but the Econtalk podcast is fantastic: http://www.econtalk.org/

If you are asking for introductory economics +1 for "Basic Economics" by Sowell and "Free to Choose" by Milton Friedman (Sowell is one of Friedman's proteges). PBS made "Free to Choose" into a series back in the 1980s. You can find all the episodes on YouTube.