Predictably Irrational is a fun read and if you're unfamiliar with behavioural economics you may do some interesting discoveries about yourself that you can take advantage of. If however you are already familiar with behavioral economics you may find the book a bit flimsy.

There is a remarkable correlation between the world of contemporary architecture and financial markets.

A passage in Dave Eggers' What Is the What made me curious to know more about the economics of brideprice.

Imperfect Knowledge Economics by Roman Frydman and Michael D. Goldberg is one of the most interesting books in economics to appear in recent years.

I remember having heated discussions with my classmates in high school over the supposed superiority of the Maxwell XLII-S or the TDK SA-X cassette tape over the TDK SA or the Sony UX-S.

The private equity industry has received quite a bit of bad press over the past few months. Yet few people seem to understand how private equity actually works.

Politicians want numbers plain and simple. Econometricians do produce such numbers, but always with a confidence (or uncertainty) interval.

Local differences are among the main driving forces behind globalization.