This is a nice light read for anyone interested in economics explained in Layman’s terms.


Tim Harford explains fundamental facts about free markets and decision-making.

These ideas are easy to grasp as he illustrates with an impressive number of examples, some of which include buying second-hand cars, game theory in auction settings, why healthcare works in very different ways among countries, the impact of corruption on growth etc.

This book will not make you into an economics expert, but, as it promises to, it will leave you thinking like an economist.

Let’s just say I walk into a supermarket with a very different view now