Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (2005)

1. Armchair Economist: Economics & Everyday Life by Steven E. Landsburg (39.8%)
2. The Economic Naturalist: In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas by Robert H. Frank (36.6%)
3. The undercover economist : Exposing why the rich are rich, the poor are poor, and why you can never buy a decent used car by Tim Harford (35.2%)
4. SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt (34.3%)
5. Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist by Tyler Cowen (32.1%)
6. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler (24.9%)
7. Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science by Charles Wheelan (22.7%)
8. Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism by George A. Akerlof (22.4%)
9. Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely (21.7%)
10. The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World by Tim Harford (21.4%)
11. Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Changes by Mark Penn (21.3%)
12. New Ideas from Dead Economists: An Introduction to Modern Economic Thought by Todd G. Buchholz (20.8%)
13. The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely (20.6%)
14. Call of the Mall: The Geography of Shopping by the Author of Why We Buy by Paco Underhill (19.6%)
15. Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely (19.6%)
16. Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior by Ori Brafman (19.2%)
17. Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart by Ian Ayres (18.3%)
18. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (16.8%)
19. Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping by Paco Underhill (15.8%)
20. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink (15.7%)
21. I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay by John Lanchester (13.7%)
22. Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won by Tobias J. Moskowitz (13.7%)
23. Megatrends by John Naisbitt (13.6%)
24. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely (13.5%)
25. The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century by Paul R. Krugman (13.1%)
26. Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt (13.1%)
27. Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben (12.6%)
28. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (12.6%)
29. The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler (12.4%)
30. Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh (12.3%)
31. The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman (11.7%)
32. Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy by Martin Lindstrom (11.4%)
33. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (11.2%)
34. The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good by William Easterly (11.1%)
35. How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer (11%)
36. On The Wealth of Nations by P. J. O'Rourke (10.9%)
37. The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson (10.4%)
38. Affluenza by Oliver James (10.4%)
39. Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture by Ellen Ruppel Shell (10.2%)
40. Quirkology: The Curious Science Of Everyday Lives by Richard Wiseman (10.1%)
41. The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier (9.8%)
42. Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There by David Brooks (9.8%)
43. The Numerati by Stephen Baker (9.6%)
44. The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler (9.5%)
45. Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century by Alvin Toffler (9.3%)
46. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (9.3%)
47. The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz (9.2%)
48. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (8.9%)
49. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (8.8%)
50. Aftershock by Robert B. Reich (8.7%)

1. 162
   Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely (_Zoe_)
2. 141
   SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt (conceptDawg)

   conceptDawg: Similar content, same authors. If you liked one you'll like the other.

3. 60
   The undercover economist : Exposing why the rich are rich, the poor are poor, and why you can never buy a decent used car by Tim Harford (waitingtoderail)

   waitingtoderail: A much better book than Freakonomics, as wide-ranging but not as scattershot.

4. 31
   Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do by Tom Vanderbilt (vnovak)
5. 54
   Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell (dste)

   dste: Another interesting book that looks at some ideas we think are right and turns them upside down.

6. 21
   Quirkology: The Curious Science Of Everyday Lives by Richard Wiseman (edwbaker)
7. 11
   Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won by Tobias J. Moskowitz (browner56)

   browner56: Economists use the tools of the "dismal science"--both traditional and behavioral--to explain the pressing issues of the day, such as drug crime, school quality, and the home field advantage in football games.

8. 00
   Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey--and Even Iraq--Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport by Simon Kuper (Anonymous user)

   Anonymous user: Freakonomics for football fans

9. 22
   The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies by Bryan Caplan (mercure)

   mercure: The freakonomics of democracy

10. 11
    The Economic Naturalist: In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas by Robert H. Frank (ljessen)
11. 11
    Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis (tcarter)
12. 22
    Bad Science by Ben Goldacre (Rynooo)
13. 11
    Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy by Carl Shapiro (infiniteletters)
14. 01
    Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben (pa5t0rd)
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    Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler (espertus)
16. 26
    Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't by John R. Lott Jr. (nathanm, Anonymous user)

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