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Economics Recommended Reading List
29th December 2009
I limit my recommended reading list to twenty books and issue it to my students twice a year making the odd change each time. My current list is shown below.
With thanks to many contributors from the Economics Blog: http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/economics/
1. Animal Spirits (Akerlof and Shiller) ISBN: 978-0-691-14233-3
2. Art of Strategy (Dixit and Nalebuff) ISBN: 978-0-393-06243-4
3. Development as Freedom: (Amartya Sen): ISBN: 0192893300
4. Drunkard’s Walk (Leonard Mlodinow) ISBN: 0713999225
5. Economics – Short Introduction: (Partha Dasgupta): ISBN: 0192853457
6. How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities (John Cassidy) ISBN: 1846143004
7. How we Decide: (Jonah Lehrer) ISBN 978-0-618-62011-1
8. Keynes – the Return of the Master (Skidelsky) ISBN: 184614258X
9. Logic of Life (Tim Harford): ISBN: 0316027561
10. Meltdown – the end of the age of greed (Paul Mason) ISBN: 1844673960
11. New Ideas from Dead Economists (Todd Buchholz) ISBN: 0452288444
12. Origins of Virtue (Matt Ridley) ISBN: 0140244042
13. Predictably Irrational: Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Dan Ariely) ISBN: 0007256523
14. Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction (TK McCraw) ISBN: 0674025237
15. Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 (Krugman) ISBN: 1846142393
16. The Ascent of Money (Niall Ferguson) ISBN: 014103548X
17. The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics and Physics (Stephen Landsburg) ISBN: 143914821X
18. The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing (Paul Collier): ISBN: 0195374630
19. Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies: Other Pricing Puzzles (McKenzie) ISBN: 0387769994
20. Worldly Philosophers (Robert Heilbroner) ISBN: 0140290060
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.