Recently, I bought a book on Dangdang.com: "Lang Xianping Says: The Financial Crisis That No One Can Escape From."
Read Lang Xianping first because he talks about reality, and then read Gong Dongni (pen name: Dangnian Mingyue) because he talks about history.
Both present an easy-to-understand, non-technical economics, and both have equally sharp, even ruthless, arguments—still very characteristic of Lang Xianping. His analysis of the current state of China's economy and the global financial crisis gives one a chilling sensation that rises from the depths of one's soul—bone-chillingly cold!