Recommended reading for economists

At this time of year I usually spring clean my (purely personal) list of books that I am keen for my students to read as they start looking beyond AS level towards UCAS applications and broadening and deepening their awareness in the subject. I am sure there are plenty of tutor2u blog readers who can suggest improvements and additions to the list shown below so please post comments and I will seek to produce a revised version in a few days!

Recommended Reading Lists for Economics Students

With thanks to many contributors from the Economics Blog: http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/economics/
A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World (G. Clark): ISBN 0691121354
Affluenza (Oliver James) ISBN: 0091900115
Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World (Alan Greenspan) ISBN: 0713999829
Chancellor’s Tales (Howard Davies) ISBN: 0745638856
China Shakes the World: The Rise of a Hungry Nation (Kynge) ISBN: 0753821559
Conspicuous consumption (Thornstein Veblen); ISBN: 0141023988
Development as Freedom: (Amartya Sen): ISBN: 0192893300
Discover Your Inner Economist (Tyler Cowen), 0525950257
Economic Naturalist, (Robert H Frank), 046500217X
Economics – Very Short Introduction: (Partha Dasgupta): ISBN: 0192853457
Fantasy Island (Elliott and Atkinson) ISBN: 1845296052
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets ISBN: 0141031484
Freakonomics (Steve Levitt), Penguin, ISBN: 0141019018
Game Theory – Very Short Introduction: (Ken Binmore): ISBN: 0199218463
Great Crash of 1929 (JK Galbraith) ISBN: 0140136096 and other works by Galbraith
How to win every argument (Madsen Pirie) ISBN: 0826490069
Logic of Life (Tim Harford): ISBN: 0316027561
More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics (Stephen Landsburg)
New Ideas from Dead Economists: (Todd Buchholz): ISBN 0140283137
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Dan Ariely) ISBN: 0007256523
Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction (TK McCraw) ISBN: 0674025237
Tescopoly (Andrew Simms): ISBN: 1845295110
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing (Paul Collier): ISBN: 0195311450
The Company of Strangers (Paul Seabright) ISBN: 0691124523
The Dragon and the Elephant: China, India and the New World Order (David Smith) ISBN: 1861978154
The End of Poverty (Jeffrey Sachs) ISBN: 0141018666
The Long Tail: How Endless Choice Is Creating Unlimited Demand (Anderson) ISBN: 184413850X
The Mystery of Capital (Hernando de Soto) ISBN: 0552999237
Thinking Strategically (Dixit and Nalebuff) – Norton: ISBN: 0393310353
Undercover Economist: (Tim Harford), OUP, ISBN: 0349119856
Who Runs Britain? How the Super-Rich are Changing our Lives (Robert Peston) ISBN: 0340839422
Wikinomics: (Don Tapscott); ISBN: 1843546361
Worldy Philosophers (Robert Heilbroner) ISBN: 0140290060

Oxbridge Economics: Introduction to Game Theory [21 May 2012]
Economics at University - Our 2012 UCAS Guide [4 Apr 2012]
Economics at University: Conditional Offers [13 Feb 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: University fees and elasticity of demand [24 Oct 2011]
UCAS Economics - Our Guide for 2011 Applicants [14 Mar 2011]
Economics at University - Free UCAS Guide [29 Aug 2010]
Extension and Enrichment Reading for Year 12 Economists [9 Jun 2010]
Revised reading list for economists - post AS papers! [27 May 2010]
Supporting Possible Oxbridge Economists [7 Mar 2010]
Oxbridge Economics: Introduction to Econometrics [29 Sep 2009]
Times 2009 University Guide - Economics [3 Jun 2009]
Oxbridge E&M - Management Blogs [24 Jun 2008]
Summer Economics Reading [19 Jun 2008]

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