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How Adam Smith can change your life
Best non-fiction books of 2014 (2014-11-24)

First there are the economics books, including books by people I know, including Piketty, The Second Machine Age , Tim Harford’s wonderful macro explainer , Megan McArdle’s The Up Side of Down , Lane Kenworthy on social democracy , The Fourth Revolution by John Micklethwait and Adrian Woolridge, Daniel Drezner The System Worked , and Frank Buckley on why the Canadian system of government is better .  And Russ Roberts, How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and H...

What I’ve been reading (2014-10-22)

3. Russ Roberts, How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness .  The best and most readable introduction to Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments .

*How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life* (2014-07-23)

The subtitle is An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness , and the author is Russ Roberts.  The focus is on Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments and why that is an important book.  This is Russ’s best book in my opinion, so you should consider buying it here .  My favorite section is the discussion of the Chilean maid, definitely recommended.

Arrived in my Twitter feed (2014-07-09)

How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness

The price of everything
The Street Porter and the Philosopher (2008-08-06)

By the way, Larry Mason wrote a novel which he claims is a model; I haven’t had time to read it yet.  Plus the new novel by Russ Roberts, which illustrates economic concepts, seems to be out now .

The Price of Everything (2008-06-18)

Here is Ezra Pound’s Usura Canto , here is a link to Russell Roberts’s The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity , available for pre-order.  Can you guess which one has the better economics?  In fact Russ’s book is the best attempt to teach economics through fiction that the world has seen to date.

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