12. "Freakonomics" (2005)

By - Stephen J. Dubner & Steven D. Levitt

"Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" is a unique non-fiction book written by Economist Steven Levitt and Journalist Stephen Dubner from ‘The New York times’. First Chapter of this book titles as "Discovering cheating as applied to teachers and sumo wrestlers (See below), as well as a typical Washington DC area bagel business and its customers". You can imagine the comparisons this book has made. May be that's the reason Critics describes this book as melding pop culture with economics.

13. "Fooled by Randomness" (2004)

By - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets" is a book written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb which deals with the fallibility of human knowledge. This book was selected by Fortune as one of the 75 Smartest Books of All Time. This book has been translated into 20 languages, and is reported to have sold over half a million copies. Malcolm Gladwell, writer of ‘The New Yorker’ said, “We associate the willingness to risk great failure – and the ability to climb back from catastrophe – with courage. But in this we are wrong. That is the lesson of Nassim Taleb", as quoted by Wikipedia.

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