Ask HN: What are you reading to make sense of the economy?

Recommendations from 100 sampled comments out of 303 eligible comments. This page covers the sample, rather than the entire HN thread.

19 books

mempko · Apr 14, 2020
Read Debt the first 5000 years from David Graeber.
tmaly · Apr 14, 2020
I highly recommend Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt.
ekianjo · Apr 14, 2020
"Basic Economics" itself is extremely educational
econbooks · Apr 14, 2020
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
ekianjo · Apr 16, 2020
Thanks for the recommendation of Cosmic Justice, I was not aware of that book of his. Will definitely have a look!