The economy, stupid...
It's been perversely meta, having time to revisit some excellent recent books on the economy while simultaneously watching it crash and burn across the world.
Forget Friedman v. Keynes, the current crisis blows the debates of the previous century out of the water.
.... more detailed thoughts tbc....
A very non-exhaustive list:
- Thomas Sowell, Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy (2011) - An excellent summary; has really helped to forge my understanding of economics (and actually, politics and human society).
- Diane Coyle, GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History (2014) and
- Sex, Drugs and Economics (2002)
- Paul Collier, The Future of Capitalism (2018)
- Tim Harford, The Undercover Economist (2006) and
- Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy (2017)
- Charles Wheelen, Naked Economics (2010)
- Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics (2005)
- Linda Yueh, The Great Economists (2018)
- Kate Raworth, Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (2017)
Also, this is a brilliant channel (Coronanomics) discussing where we go from here...