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10. James Otteson - Seven Deadly Economic Sins

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How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley

I feel like I feel like this is in some ways a successor book as far as a popularly accessible introduction to economic thinking that is not jargon filled. My own maybe more direct inspiration was Kant, but I think there are some clear similarities there. Are there some things that we can some lessons we can learn from economics that would do a lot of good for us as individuals or making decisions in our own lives? And when we're evaluating policy, yes, there are a lot of mistakes that we make pretty commonly and I try to lay out some of them.

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