Gwartney, James D.

This reader-friendly work concisely explains vital economic principles. The section on personal finance should be required reading for everyone. The superb electronic supplemental material package can be used to structure any introduction to economics course, and this work nicely supplements the fifth edition of Thomas Sowell’s Basic Economics. Highly recommended for public libraries and all high school and university economics instructors.

Though Common Sense is not an in-depth analysis of economics, economics students and professors, as well as general readers, will benefit from reading this introduction to general economic principles. Highly recommended as a primer.