"Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man‎.‎" ‎-‎- Henry Hazlitt‎,‎ Economics in One Lesson ‎(‎1946‎)‎ Every day economic claims are used by the media or in conversation to support social and political positions‎.‎ Those on the left tend to distrust economists‎,‎ seeing them as friends of the right‎.‎ There is something to this‎,‎ since professional economists are almost all keen supporters of the free market‎.‎ Yet while factions on the right naturally embrace economists‎,‎ they also tend to overestimate the effect of their support on free‎-market policies‎.‎ The result is widespread confusion‎.‎ In fact‎,‎ virtually all commonly held beliefs about economics‎-‎-whether espoused by political activists‎,‎ politicians‎,‎ journalists or taxpayers‎-‎-are just plain wrong‎.‎ Professor Joseph Heath wants to raise our economic literacy and empower us with new ideas‎.‎ In "Economics Without Illusions‎,‎" he draws on everyday examples to skewer the six favourite economic fallacies of the right‎,‎ followed by impaling the six favourite fallacies of the left‎.‎ Heath leaves no sacred cows untipped as he breaks down complex arguments and shows how the world really works‎.‎ The popularity of such books as Freakonomics and Predictably Irrational demonstrates that people want a better understanding of the financial forces that affect them‎.‎ Highly readable‎,‎ cogently argued and certain to raise ire along all points of the socio‎-political spectrum‎,‎ "Economics Without Illusions "offers readers the economic literacy they need to genuinely understand and critique the pros and cons of capitalism‎.‎