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Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life
by David D. Friedman
from Collins Business
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 
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Deeply Flawed Analysis 
I have to say I didn't read too much of this book before being turned off by it. I will give you a few examples of what immediately caught my eye in the beginning of the book. He claimed that getting rid of the practice of buying used textbooks would not increase sales and then basically said that if you disagree it is because you are stupid. His argument was that the price of selling the book after being used factored in to the cost the consumer would pay. As anyone who has ever attended college knows, you... more info
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Not What It Seems
This book attempts to explain the dry, boring field of economics in an engaging and painless manner. It fails at doing that. The text itself is often times confusing and dry, coupled with graphs that are basically incomprehensible to anyone without an economics degree. I was more confused after reading than the book than before it. To anyone interested in reading about economics actually displayed in an interesting, fun way, I would highly recommend Naked Economics by Charles Wheelan. It is a tremendously... more info
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It's an excellent book! 
It's an excellent book. Although I enjoyed reading Freakonomics, "Hidden Order" is a much deeper and broader book in terms of issues discussed.
What I really like about it that in additional of covering existing issues, it helps to learn how to approach new problems.
The sad thing is although the book was written in 1996, we(and politicians, and TV/Radio talk heads) are still using the same uninformed reasoning during the discussions.
It would be great if the book became a required reading... more info
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Good micro-economics primer, but not of the "popular" genre as it claims...
What David Friedman has written here is a good, but very serious, micro-economics book in a relatively conversational tone. In a number of places on the back cover and in the early text, the book makes the claim that it is a "popular" economics book along the lines of Freakonomics; it isn't. It is a far deeper dive into the nuts and bolts of the tools of micro-economics rather than a light read about fascinating applications of those tools.
That doesn't preclude this from being a good book; for the... more info
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