Book is intended to be a friendly, easy intro to economics. It made a real attempt to be easy, and there was a sense of humor, but it was too hard for me to follow without putting in a lot more work than I was prepared to give. Read about 50 pages and it was clear it wasn’t gonna get any easier.

I’ve read a couple other of his books, and enjoyed them.

I though this was another ”believe it or not” pop economics book, it is not. It is rather basic economic knowledge attempted dealt out with much sugar, and as such I think it is excellent ( )

(Alistair) A good little introduction to economics both micro- and macro-, for the intelligent layman. (It works quite well as a refresher, too, I claim from personal experience.)

I don't know if I'd specifically recommend everyone read it - the author does, after all, make considerable use of charts, graphs, and actual terminology, which in themselves appear to be offputting to a great many people, and does expect you to actually think about the concepts he's explaining to you, although without the usual mathematics - but everyone certainly ought to read something fairly similar to it. This is a good explanation of the amount of economics you ought to be familiar with before being turned loose in the world and expected to make sensible decisions.

(For those of you familiar with David Friedman's politics, be assured that Hidden Order concentrates on the core economics, and is by no means an ideological tract for it author's libertarian views. And I say that even though I incline that way myself, yes.)

Recommended for everyone in severe need of some economic ideas.

( http://weblog.siliconcerebrate.com/cerebrate/2008/12/hidden_order_david_friedman... ) ( )

Essentially a version of Friedman's intermediate micro text for the lay reader. ( )