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Any decent book about macroecon will do the job. You can look at the one proposed by esbanker or the one published by Pearson. I think there is a lot more but I don't know them. I will add that I wouldn't buy a book edited by a portfolio manager to get " a good understanding of modern economy".

 

You did not state if you have prior knowledge or not, but for a fun book that gets you interested in econ

FREAKONOMICS is a good start, Steven Levitt, Harvard, MIT, profeesor at Chichago U

around 2000 reviews on amazon

 
eszk2012You did not state if you have prior knowledge or not, but for a fun book that gets you interested in econ

FREAKONOMICS is a good start, Steven Levitt, Harvard, MIT, profeesor at Chichago U

around 2000 reviews on amazon

Freakonomics is a little bit off the beaten path though. It's not something you'd read if you want to get a better understanding of macro-economics, but it does illustrate many economic principles through neat and unusual examples.

 

For "general"/basic stuff, I'd read: "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman Anything on new Keynesian economics; especially interesting reads from N. Gregory Mankiw (Harvard) and Michael Woodford (Columbia).

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