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Australian economist; professor at the University of Queensland and Australian Laureate Fellow; author of Zombie Economics (2010) and Economics in Two Lessons (2019).
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Free to ChooseBook Milton Friedman
So the first book I suggest is Milton Friedman’s Free to Choose: that book very much takes the view that what matters is the individual choice.
Five Books interview: the best books on Learning Economics
2020-02-07·fivebooks.com ↗
InequalityBook Tony Atkinson
It’s called Inequality: What Can be Done?
Five Books interview: the best books on Learning Economics
2020-02-07·fivebooks.com ↗
Brave New WorldBook Aldous Huxley
The lesson I would draw from Brave New World is that the purpose of utopia is not so much as an achieved state, as to give people the freedom to pursue their own projects.
Five Books interview: the best books on Utopia
2012-05-21·fivebooks.com ↗
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