Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explo...
Stephen J. DubnerLevitt (economics, U. of Chicago) and writing collaborator Dubner (a writer for the New York Times and The New Yorker) dub the material in this work 'freakonomics' because Levitt uses analytical tools from economics to address a range...
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Fo...
Dan ArielyIn the tradition of 'Freakonomics' and 'Blink,' a behavioral economist argues that human behavior is often anything but rational--that thoughts are not random, but instead are systematic and predictable.
Since the end of the second World War, economics professors and classroom textbooks have been telling us that the economy is one big machine that can be effectively regulated by economic experts and tuned by government agencies like t...
Introduction by Robert ReichCommentary by R. H. Camell and A. S. Skinnerb Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, a...
Economic Facts and Fallacies, 2nd edi...
Thomas SowellIn Economic Facts and Fallacies, Thomas Sowell exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues in a lively manner that does not require any prior knowledge of economics. These fallacies include many beliefs widely dis...
The Shifts and the Shocks: What We've...
Martin WolfFrom the chief economic commentator for the Financial Times—a brilliant tour d'horizon of the new global economy There have been many books that have sought to explain the causes and courses of the financial and economic crisis th...
The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Be...
Jacqueline NovogratzThe Blue Sweater is the inspiring story of a woman who left a career in international banking to spend her life on a quest to understand global poverty and find powerful new ways of tackling it. It all started back home in Virginia, w...
Discover Your Inner Economist: Use In...
Tyler CowenRead Tyler Cowen's posts on the Penguin Blog./b In Discover Your Inner Economist one of America's most respected economists presents a quirky, incisive romp through everyday life that reveals how you can turn economic reasoning t...
Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Mode...
Tim HarfordNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 by BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND AMAZONA lively history seen through the fifty inventions that shaped it most profoundly, by the bestselling author of The Undercover Economist and Messy....
Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology ...
George A. AkerlofThe global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, "a...
Universal Economics is a new work that bears a strong resemblance to its two predecessors, University Economics (1964, 1967, 1972) and Exchange and Production (1969, 1977, 1983). Collaborating again, Professors Alchian and Allen have ...
Macroeconomics (The MIT Press Essenti...
Felipe Larra BAn accessible introduction to the basics of macroeconomics and how it affects the local and global economies. Macroeconomics takes a broad perspective on the economy of a country or region; it studies economic changes in the aggrega...
Behavioural Economics: A Very Short I...
Michelle BaddeleyTraditionally, economists have based their economic predictions on the assumption that humans are super-rational creatures, using the information we are given efficiently and generally making selfish decisions. Economists also assume ...
Adam Smith: A Very Short Introduction...
Christopher J. BerryIn 1776 Adam Smith (1723-90) wrote The Wealth of Nations , a book so foundational it has led to him being called the 'father of economics'. Today he is associated with the promotion of self-interest, a defence of greed and a criticism...
Business Adventures: Twelve Classic T...
John BrooksFrom Wall Street to Main Street, John Brooks, longtime contributor to the New Yorker, brings to life in vivid fashion twelve classic and timeless tales of corporate and financial life in America What do the $350 million Ford Motor Com...
Economics Through Everyday Life: From...
Anthony ClarkWhat Is Economics And Why Does It Matter?Could the United States experience another Great Depression? Is the Social Security program doomed for future generations? What, exactly, do economists do anyway? Economics is not only for acad...
Microeconomics: A Very Short Introduc...
Avinash DixitMicroeconomics - individuals' choices of where to live and work, how much to save, what to buy, and firms' decisions about location, hiring, firing, and investment - involves issues that concern us on a daily basis. But when people th...
The Economics Book: Big Ideas Simply ...
DKFrom Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, to Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes, to the top economic thought leaders of today, The Economics Book is the essential reference for students and anyone else with an interest in how economies work....
Better Tomorrow: A Personal Perspecti...
Dave Dow"Better Tomorrow" is a book that focuses on a practical approach to Servant Leadership. It has been written from the perspective of an individual who spent 35 years as a leader, lecturer, college professor and missionary. Da...
MEADOWLARK ECONOMICS: Exploring Value...
James EggertMEADOWLARK ECONOMICS: Exploring Values for a Sustainable Future (Revised Edition) Alarmed by the gradual disappearance of the meadowlark from his local countryside, James Eggert began to examine both the economic and ecological factor...
Microeconomics Made Simple: Basic Mic...
Austin FraktFind all of the following topics, explained in plain-English:IntroductionWhat is Economics? | Not a Perfect Model | Microeconomics vs. Macroeconomics1. Maximizing UtilityDecreasing Marginal Utility | Opportunity Cost...
Success and Luck: Good Fortune and th...
Robert H. FrankFrom New York Times bestselling author and economics columnist Robert Frank, a compelling book that explains why the rich underestimate the importance of luck in their success, why that hurts everyone, and what we can do about itHow i...
Inequality: What Everyone Needs to Kn...
James K. GalbraithOver the past thirty years, the issue of economic inequality has emerged from the backwaters of economics to claim center stage in the political discourse of America and beyond---a change prompted by a troubling fact: numerous measur...
The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, S...
John Hagel IIIIn a radical break with the past, information now flows like water, and we must learn how to tap into its stream. Individuals and companies can no longer rely on the stocks of knowledge that they've carefully built up and stored away....
The Undercover Economist Strikes Back...
Tim HarfordA provocative and lively exploration of the increasingly important world of macroeconomics, by the author of the bestselling The Undercover Economist. Thanks to the worldwide financial upheaval, economics is no longer a topic we can i...
Zombie Capitalism: Global Crisis and ...
Chris HarmanWe've been told for years that the capitalist free market is a self-correcting perpetual growth machine in which sellers always find buyers, precluding any major crisis in the system. Then the credit crunch of August 2007 turned into...
Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Eco...
David HarveyKarl Marx's Capital is one of the most important texts written in the modern era. Since 1867, when the first of its three volumes was published, it has had a profound effect on politics and economics in theory and practice throughout ...
Seventeen Contradictions and the End ...
David Harvey"What I am seeking here is a better understanding of the contradictions of capital, not of capitalism. I want to know how the economic engine of capitalism works the way it does, and why it might stutter and stall and sometimes a...
The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ow...
Michael HellerTwenty-five new runways would eliminate most air travel delays in America; fifty patent owners are blocking a major drug company from creating a cancer cure; 90 percent of our broadcast spectrum sits idle while American cell phone ser...
Why Information Grows: The Evolution ...
Cesar HidalgoWhat is economic growth? And why, historically, has it occurred in only a few places? Previous efforts to answer these questions have focused on institutions, geography, finances, and psychology. But according to MIT's antidisciplinar...