From my list on Economics books that will not bore you like the students in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
Why am I passionate about this?
I am an economics professor who believes my profession has important things to contribute to society but has done a poor job. My colleagues spend much of their time writing esoteric articles that 6 other academics will read, and one in a million will actually improve the lives of people. I consider myself a “blue-collar academic”; I am basically a farm kid (still live on a small farm) with a bunch of degrees attempting to bring good economic insights to more people so those ideas can be applied and used by real people living real lives so I am always on the search for others who are doing just that.
Brian's book list on Economics books that will not bore you like the students in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Why did Brian love this book?
I like mysteries, and I have read all of the greats. This is not Sherlock Holmes quality, but it is good and another fun read. It presents ideas and their practical application in a fun and familiar format.
I love this book for the story. The hero is an economics professor, and it has a sense of humor. Co-written by two award-winning economists who invented a nom-de-plume and gave it a very funny backstory about being a cocoa bean investor, that sort of fun comes through in the book as well. Plus, it is set where so many great adventures are: in the Caribbean. Murder, the tropics, and economics—what’s not to love?
1 author picked Murder at the Margin as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
Cinnamon Bay Plantation was the ideal Caribbean island getaway--or so it seemed. But for distinguished Harvard economist Henry Spearman it offered diversion of a decidedly different sort and one he'd hardly anticipated: murder. While the island police force is mired in an investigation that leads everywhere and nowhere, the diminutive, balding Spearman, who likes nothing better than to train his curiosity on human behavior, conducts an investigation of his own, one governed by rather different laws--those of economics. Theorizing and hypothesizing, Spearman sets himself on the killer's trail as it twists from the postcard-perfect beaches and manicured lawns of a…