Books by George A. Akerlof

The authors are Nobel Laureates George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller and the subtitle is The Economics of Manipulation and Deception .  It’s a popular take on how markets trap you and your preferences in places you don’t want to be.  Self-recommending of course.

1. Identity Economics: How Our Identities Shape our Work, Wages, and Well-Being , by George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton.  There's a general question of how satisfying largely non-empirical treatments of this topic can be, but still the original papers behind this popular book are seminal.