<p>I did a bachelors majoring in marketing but I want to go back to college to add in another major, and economics is tempting.</p>
<p>Before I commit to it though, anyone know of any books I could read that would help clarify economics and whether I would find it interesting to study?</p>
<p>“The Prince” by Machiavelli.</p>
<p>Lowcost books to explain the basics
Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazzlit~can be found for Free in PDF at Ludwig von Mises Wesbite. 12-20 bucks amazon
The Wealth of Nation by Adam Smith~ Free for kindle edition, 5$
Whatever happened to Penny Candy by Richard J Maybury~10-15$
A Friendly Introduction to Economics by Carol Tuner~3-10$</p>
<p>If you aren’t the type of person who absolutely dreads textbooks (I actually love textbooks. I think they’re better than novels because they’re more technical and therefore I feel like I learn a lot more from textbooks) then I’d recommend getting a textbook in Introductory Microeconomics.</p>
<p>If you want to learn about Macroeconomics, you could also get a textbook on Macroeconomics. I’d recommend the one by Paul Krugman, it’s a good introductory Macroeconomics textbook. There’s no Calculus in either Introductory Micro or Macro, so don’t worry if you aren’t educated in Calculus.</p>
<p>However I personally would recommend reading about Microecon first, but I’m a bit biased because I found Microeconomics more interesting than Macroeconomics. The reason is because I felt like Microeconomics was a lot more scientific, more concrete, and more practical and applicable than Macroeconomics.</p>
<p>The trouble I have with Macroeconomics is that the topic is unnecessarily shrouded by political ideologues who worship the “free market” like it’s a gift from God. It’s quite obnoxious and a very unscientific perspective in my opinion.</p>
<p>Economics is supposed to be a science, and yet there’s a ton of people (and a ton of books out there) who preach about the free market inappropriately when they’re supposed to not have a biased perspective.</p>
<p>I recommend Microecon though because you’ll learn about things like externality problems and other such things which will then help you weed through all the ******** that you’ll find in Macro about how markets never fail and can never do anything wrong (which is wrong).</p>