It includes some classics that deserve to stay in any listing whatever the year and also some new books that I have enjoyed reading recently or which I cannot wait to get stuck into over the next few months.

Here is my list

• 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism (Ha-Joon Chang) – challenges conventional thinking
• Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance: (Ian Goldin & Chris Kutarna)
• Alibaba: The House that Jack Ma Built (Duncan Clark) – The rise of the Chinese corporate giant
• Art of Strategy (Dixit and Nalebuff) – especially good for Game Theory examples and analysis
• Capitalism: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know (Jonathan Portes) – compact and excellent reference material
• Drunkard’s Walk (Leonard Mlodinow) – a brilliant history of Maths and lots of relevant applications
• GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History (Professor Diane Coyle) – very good on the GDP / well-being debate
• Grave New World: (Stephen King) – Former head of Econ at HSBC looks at the fracturing global economy
• If I Could Tell You Just One Thing...: Most Valuable Advice from Remarkable People: (Richard Reed)
• Inequality (AB Atkinson) – a superb book on one of the defining economic/political issues of the age
• Inner Lives of Markets: How People Shape Them—And They Shape Us (Sharman and Fishman)
• Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics (Richard Thaler) – Superb biography
• Poor Economics: Rethinking Ways to Fight Global Poverty (Banerjee & Duflo) – development economics
• Positive Linking – Networks and Nudges (Paul Ormerod) – good introduction to network economics
• Rise and Fall of Nations: Ten Rules of Change in the Post-Crisis World (Richir Sharma)
• Risk Savvy - How to make good decisions (Gerd Gigerenzer) – the world of heuristics and risk management
• Ten Great Economists (Philip Thornton) – biographical background, well worth a read
• The Box - How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, (Levinson)
• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (Brad Stone) – a great page turner
• The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization (Richard Baldwin)
• The Great Divide (Professor Joseph Stiglitz) – one of the classic critiques of globalisation
• The Great Escape (Professor Angus Deaton) – a broad sweep of economic history and poverty reduction
• The Plundered Planet: How to Reconcile Prosperity with Nature: (Professor Paul Collier)
• The Undoing Project: (Michael Lewis) – Birth of behavioural economics, Kahneman and Tversky
• The Upstarts: How Uber and Airbnb are changing the world (Brad Stone) Follow up to his work on Amazon
• Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow: (Professor Daniel Kahneman) – the classic Kahneman epic
• What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets (Professor Michael Sandel) – Pure PPE bliss
• Who Gets What - And Why: Understand the Choices You Have, Improve the Choices You Make (Al Roth)
• Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies (Cesar Hidalgo)
• Worldly Philosophers: Lives, Times, and Ideas of Great Economic Thinkers (Robert Heilbroner)

Reading list last updated Saturday, January 07, 2017