Yes, I do actually read books. Really, I do. And here are two books I’d love to get my hands on.

SuperFreakonomics

If you don’t know, this is a sequel to the amazing and mindblowing book Freakonomics, which I bought and read and I loved. This is why I do economics. Of course, the writer admits he’s no good at econometrics and things people get Harvard degrees for, but who cares? This is a great book anyway. With even more things to compare and make extremely insane statements that actually make a lot of sense but you don’t ever realize, this book is a sure bet for something to read that is actually interesting.

Makers

A book published by Tor (so you know it’s good) and written by the genius Cory Doctorow of BoingBoing fame (so you definitely know it’s good), it’s a great book about people inventing economics models and what happens when things don’t work properly. It’s being serialized in 81 parts, but I really want to read it on paper.

As you can see, I’m a fan of stuff related to economics and economic models, mostly because I like things with statistics and watching things we take for granted fail. I hope I can find these books in my local bookstore, it’s rare to find a Tor-published book locally anyway.