[ob]

I still think one of the best textbooks on economics is Paul Samuelson's Economics. Assuming you mean macro-economics that is.

[hga]

Samuelson got the Soviet Union so horribly wrong that I can't recommend it on that detail alone, for it either meant he was a True Believer, Useful Idiot, or the tenor of the times meant he had to publish words he knew were false, which then throws the rest into question, for how much of it was also fashion vs. what he thought to be true?

[dredmorbius]

How did Samuelson get the USSR wrong specifically? I'm curious.