I recently read Pearl's recent "The Book of Why", and thought it was excellent: https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/judea-pearl/the-book-of-why/9780465097609/ ht

I recently read Pearl's recent "The Book of Why", and thought it was excellent: https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/judea-pearl/the-book-of-why/9780465097609/ https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/judea-pearl/the-book-of-wh... Unlike his previous books this is intended for general audiences rather than practitioners. It offers a good overview of Causal Inference, as well as a personal take on why there is such a split between his graphical approach and others such as SEM. Overall, Pearl is unabashedly optimistic that statistics is finally on the verge of a "causal revolution", and this book tries to describe what that means. I'd recommend it highly, either as standalone or as background to accompany his more technical works.