The Making of Modern Economics: The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers

The author does a fantastic job to enliven a potentially dull topic. He mostly does this by details, sometime salacious, of the lives of key economists. One interesting things to me was that both Keynes and Karl Marx found wealth in market speculation.

The book is missing "A very short introduction to" from its title. There's not a lot about economic theory here, it's mostly biographical summaries of well known economists. Contains attempts at humour, repetitions, repetitions and pretentious suggestions of "music to listen to" while reading a chapter.

If you ever thought that to truly understand economics you need to know the sexual proclivities of famous economists this book delivers all the gossip you ever wanted. Honestly, why the author decided to include this is beyond me.

Greatest book on economics I have read in years. Great introductory book and great review of the entire field.

3rd Edition