Firstly, THE most important thing to learn about economics, from whichever source, is that it's NOT a natural science and there are NO laws or theories that hold so much water as, say, The Theory of Gravity.
The second is that economics was, up until relatively recently, purely about narratives and was called "political economy". There is still no separating politics from economics.
Every mathematical model ever constructed by any economist is set up based on the prejudices of that particular economist or school of thought.
Really, the thing has no business being called a science, as we currently understand it, in my opinion.
That said, both of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's books are great for commentary on the present system and a lot of it's insanity/divorce from real reality... You'll get a kick out of his style if you like PJ O'Rourke too.
If you want some more academic stuff, read through the Oxford "Introductions to..." across a few schools of thought and follow things up as you like.
One thing though, whenever they start to play with game theory... throw the book away.
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"I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place." - Winston Churchill, 1937 --{ORLY?}--
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