Happily, many other authors are. The genre of popular economics began one year too late for me, with Steven E. Landsburg’s The Armchair Economist: Economics and Everyday Life (Free Press, 1993).

"Four Winds" is another popular book penned by the author, which came out in 2021. There are plenty of Hannah books to catch up on in 2025 as readers await her next project to hit shelves. 5.

Okay, I should have headlined it “My favorite economics books of 2016.” There surely are many good books that I missed. Still, the four below share certain appealing characteristics.

The Verge interviews Joel Waldfogel, an economist at the University of Minnesota, about his new book Digital Renaissance: What Data and Economics Tell Us about the Future of Popular Culture.