Nothing to do with economics at all, but this beautiful article on the intersection of cancer and statistics should be read by anyone using statistics to examine real world phenomena. From the article:
"This is a personal story of statistics, properly interpreted, as profoundly nurturant and life-giving. It declares holy war on the downgrading of intellect by telling a small story about the utility of dry, academic knowledge about science. Heart and head are focal points of one body, one personality."