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Revised reading list for economists - post AS papers!
27th May 2010
Several new books have made it onto my revised reading list for students aspiring to read economics at university this autumn. As always I am bound to have excluded something really interesting - so please let me know!
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. Crisis Economics (Nouriel Roubini) ISBN: 978-1-846-14287-1
4. Development as Freedom: (Amartya Sen): ISBN: 0192893300
5. Drunkard’s Walk (Leonard Mlodinow) ISBN: 0713999225
6. Fifty economics ideas (Edmund Conway) ISBN: 978-1-84866-010-6
7. How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities (John Cassidy) ISBN: 1846143004
8. How the economy works (Roger Farmer) ISBN: 978-019-539791-8
9. How we Decide: (Jonah Lehrer) ISBN 978-0-618-62011-1
10. Keynes – the Return of the Master (Skidelsky) ISBN: 184614258X
11. Losing Control (Stephen D King) ISBN: 0300154321
12. Meltdown – the end of the age of greed (Paul Mason) ISBN: 1844673960
13. New Ideas from Dead Economists (Todd Buchholz) ISBN: 0452288444
14. Obliquity: Why our goals are best achieved indirectly (John Kay) ISBN: 1846682894
15. Origins of Virtue (Matt Ridley) ISBN: 0140244042
16. Predictably Irrational: Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Dan Ariely) ISBN: 0007256523
17. Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter & Creative Destruction (TK McCraw) ISBN: 0674025237
18. Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 (Krugman) ISBN: 1846142393
19. The Ascent of Money (Niall Ferguson) ISBN: 014103548X
20. The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics and Physics (Stephen Landsburg) ISBN: 143914821X
21. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Michael Lewis) ISBN: 1846142571
22. The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing (Paul Collier): ISBN: 0195374630
23. The Plundered Planet: How to Reconcile Prosperity with Nature (Paul Collier) ISBN: 1846142237
24. The upside of irrationality (Dan Ariely) ISBN: 978-0-00-735476-4
25. Whoops!: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay (John Lanchester) ISBN: 1846142857
26. Worldly Philosophers (Robert Heilbroner) ISBN: 0140290060
Reading list last updated May 2010
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.