Economics

66 books · showing top 60

Must-Read2021

A Brief History of Equality

Thomas Piketty

Must-Read1963

A Monetary History of the United States

Milton Friedman

Must-Read2006

An Essay on the Principle of Population

Thomas Malthus

Must-Read1983

Black Marxism

Cedric J. Robinson

Must-Read1972

Brain of the Firm

Stafford Beer

Must-Read2013

Capital in the Twenty‑First Century

Thomas Piketty

Must-Read1962

Capitalism and Freedom

Milton Friedman

Must-Read1942

Capitalism Socialism and Democracy

Joseph Schumpeter

Must-Read1981

Civilization and Capitalism

Fernand Braudel

Must-Read2011

Debt: The First 5000 Years

David Graeber

Must-Read1999

Development as Freedom

Amartya Sen

Must-Read1980

Free to Choose

Milton Friedman

Must-Read1990

Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance

Douglass North

Must-Read1972

Limits to Growth

Meadows et al.

Must-Read1962

Man Economy and State

Murray Rothbard

Must-Read2015

Misbehaving

Richard Thaler

Must-Read2008

Nudge

Thaler & Sunstein

Must-Read1819

On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation

David Ricardo

Must-Read2000

Power and Prosperity

Mancur Olson

Must-Read1931

Prices and Production

Friedrich Hayek

Must-Read1984

Public Choice II

James Buchanan & Gordon Tullock

Must-Read1971

Selections from the Prison Notebooks

Antonio Gramsci

Must-Read1994

Specters of Marx

Jacques Derrida

Must-Read2018

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Shoshana Zuboff

Must-Read2008

The Ascent of Money

Niall Ferguson

Must-Read1962

The Calculus of Consent

Buchanan & Tullock

Must-Read1919

The Economic Consequences of the Peace

John Maynard Keynes

Must-Read1935

The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

John Maynard Keynes

Must-Read2000

The Great Divergence

Kenneth Pomeranz

Must-Read1944

The Great Transformation

Karl Polanyi

Must-Read1965

The Logic of Collective Action

Mancur Olson

Must-Read2019

The Narrow Corridor

Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson

Must-Read2013

The Price of Inequality

Joseph Stiglitz

Must-Read1944

The Road to Serfdom

Friedrich Hayek

Must-Read1950

The Sea Around Us

Rachel Carson

Must-Read1776

The Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith

Must-Read2012

Why Nations Fail

Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson

Recommended2011

23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

Ha-Joon Chang

Recommended2000

Basic Economics

Thomas Sowell

Recommended2018

Capitalism without Capital

Jonathan Haskel, Stian Westlake

Recommended1972

Change Agent

Lyle E. Schaller

Recommended2023

Crypto

Zeke Faux

Recommended2017

Designing Bots: Creating Conversational Experiences

Amir Shevat

Recommended2004

Empire of Cotton

Sven Beckert

Recommended2019

Good Economics for Hard Times

Esther Duflo and Abhijit V. Banerjee

Recommended2009

Head First Data Analysis

Michael Milton

Recommended2002

Kicking Away the Ladder

Ha-Joon Chang

Recommended1980

Knowledge and Decisions

Thomas Sowell

Recommended2015

Machiavelli on Business

Niccolò Machiavelli, Stephen Brennan

Recommended1899

Memoirs of a Revolutionist

Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin (kni︠a︡zʹ)

Recommended2011

Poor Economics

Esther Duflo and Abhijit V. Banerjee

Recommended1817

Principles of Political Economy

David Ricardo

Recommended2017

Product Leadership

Richard Banfield, Martin Eriksson, Nate Walkingshaw

Recommended2015

Prototype to Product

Alan Cohen

Recommended1918

Roads to Freedom

Bertrand Russell

Recommended1986

Stabilizing an Unstable Economy

Hyman Minsky

Recommended1971

Steal This Book

Abbie Hoffman

Recommended1958

The Affluent Society

John Kenneth Galbraith

Recommended1828

The Art of Money Getting

P. T. Barnum

Recommended2014

The Big Pivot

Andrew Winston

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