- Our World in Data (Max Roser)
- Wonderful resource for facts and figures about the history of the world
- Some Ariel Rubinstein links or just go to his website. His 2012 book Economic Fables, part memoir, part non-technical introduction to economic theory, gets my highest possible recommendation and is available to download for free here. Here‘s a Five Books interview with him for good measure.
- Introspection for economists
- What Happens Next Will Amaze You (Maciej Cegłowski, Sep 2015)
- Privacy, advertising, techno-utopianism, San Francisco, venture capital = central planning
- The Library of Babel (Jorge Luis Borges, 1941)
- A short story about everything
- On Exactitude in Science (Jorge Luis Borges, 1946)
- A very short story about the point of models
- This is Water (David Foster Wallace, 2005)
- The famous Kenyon College commencement speech
- Even Famous Female Economists Get No Respect (Justin Wolfers, 2015)
- Gender bias in action
- Postcapitalism (Paul Mason, 2015)
- I wonder if too much is made of how information goods will transform everything, but this is definitely thought provoking and worth a read.
- Cambridge Philosophers I: F. P. Ramsey (D. H. Mellor, 1995)
- Reviewing Ramsey’s brief career in the 1920s, including his economics and his philosophy that speaks to economic theorizing.
- Dead Flip Tutorials
- For the pinball fans: flipper techniques illustrated with adorable gifs
- On the Definition of Economics (pdf) (Roger E. Backhouse and Steven G. Medema, 2009)
- Defining the discipline through the ages
- Science in the age of selfies (Donald Geman and Stuart Geman, 2016)
- Technology and the sociology of science and progress
- Cheap Talk
- Jeff Ely’s always-entertaining blog
- The Secret Sins of Economists (Deirdre McCloskey, 2002)
- A jaunty broadside against economists and their ways