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Books I Liked

The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World

Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist

The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies

More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics

Law's Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters

Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

New Ideas from Dead Economists: An Introduction to Modern Economic Thought

The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression

Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Is the budget deficit responsible for high gas prices?

Friday, October 19th, 2007

Clara Jeffery, editor-in-chief at MotherJones, thinks so. In a post that received over 1300 diggs she notes:
“Thus, of the $59 increase in the cost of a barrel of oil to a U.S. consumer, more than $30 is due to the depreciation of the U.S. Dollar and the fiscal and trade policies that have […]