I was thinking Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith or Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell but those may be a bit advanced
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Alfred Marshall's Principles of Economics is much shorter than Wealth of Nations, although not necessarily less dense. Marshall was a mathematician first and foremost, so there's a lot of focus on supply and demand curves and other basic mathematical principles of economics. It's less philosophical and more scientific in its overall approach.
Look, there is nothing scientific about economics. It is politics and sociology intersecting with the interests of nations.
I humbly suggest Henry Carey as good economics reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Charles_Carey
Go to the primary sources and read what the man wrote, not what others read into him for their own agendas.
I think its important to differentiate between micro and macro economics.
Will look that up as well