Economic ignorance is to politicians what idle hands are to the devil. Both provide the workshop for the creation of evil. — Economist Walter Williams
Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics by Henry Hazlitt — click here for excerpts.
The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek
Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
Economic Facts and Fallacies by Thomas Sowell
Basic Economics: A Citizen’s Guide to the Economy by Thomas Sowell
Common Sense Economics: What Everyone Should Know About Wealth and Prosperity by James Gwartney, Richard Stroup and Dwight Lee
The Market Economy: A Reader — by Dwight Lee & James Doti: Includes classics from Adam Smith, Fredric Bastiat and John Stuart Mill
Feedomnomics by John R. Lott