Recommended Reading for Economics (Books)
This document attempts to bring together suggestions for extension and enrichment reading
for sixth form students who enjoy their economics and want to deepen their passion and
awareness.
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● ISBN number
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web site or perhaps streamed video of a talk / discussion with the author
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Recommended Books
1. 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism (Ha-Joon Chang), ISBN: 1846143284
2. Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure (Tim Harford) ISBN: 1408701529
3. An Optimist’s Tour of the Future (Mark Stevenson) ISBN: 1846683564
4. Animal Spirits (Akerlof and Shiller) ISBN: 978-0-691-14233-3
5. Art of Strategy (Dixit and Nalebuff) ISBN: 978-0-393-06243-4
6. Civilization: The West and the Rest (Niall Ferguson) ISBN: 1846142733
7. Company of Strangers (Paul Seabright) ISBN: 978-0691146461
8. Crisis Economics (Nouriel Roubini) ISBN: 978-1-846-14287-1
9. Darwin Economy - Robert Frank ISBN: 0691153191
10. Development as Freedom: (Amartya Sen): ISBN: 0192893300
11. Drunkard’s Walk (Leonard Mlodinow) ISBN: 0713999225
12. Economics of Enough: (Diane Coyle) ISBN: 0691145180
13. Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar (Barry Eichengreen) ISBN:
9780199596713
14. Factory Girls (Leslie T Chang) ISBN: 978-0330447362
15. How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities (John Cassidy) ISBN: 1846143004
16. How the West was Lost (Dambisa Moyo) ISBN: 1846142350
17. How we Decide: (Johttp://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2011/05/
chinas-factory-girls-and-what-they-tell-us-about-chinas-future/nah Lehrer) ISBN 978-0618-62011-1
18. Keynes – the Return of the Master (Skidelsky) ISBN: 184614258X
19. Made in Britain (Evan Davis, BBC) ISBN: 1408703300
20. Master Switch – the rise and fall of information empires (Tim Wu) ISBN: 1848879849
21. Meltdown – the end of the age of greed, second edition (Paul Mason) ISBN:
1844676536
22. Origins of Virtue (Matt Ridley) ISBN: 0140244042
23. Poor Economics (Esther Duflo and Banerjee) ISBN: 9781586487980 (FT Book of Year)
24. Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter & Creative Destruction (TK McCraw) ISBN:
0674025237
25. Red Plenty: Industry! Progress! Abundance! Inside the Fifties’ Soviet Dream. (Francis
Spufford) ISBN: 0571225233
26. Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography ISBN: 1408703742
27. Super Co-operators, Supercooperators: Evolution, Altruism and Human Behaviour
(Martin Nowak and Roger Highfield) ISBN: 9781847673367
28. The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics,
Economics and Physics (Stephen Landsburg) ISBN: 143914821X
29. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Michael Lewis) ISBN: 1846142571
30. The Bottom Billion (Paul Collier) ISBN: 9780195374636
31. The Globalization Paradox Dani Rodrik ISBN: 0199603332
32. The Origin of Wealth (Eric Beinhocker) ISBN: 978-0712676618
33. The Price of Everything (Eduardo Porter): ISBN: 043401978X
34. The Plundered Planet: How to Reconcile Prosperity with Nature (Paul Collier) ISBN:
1846142237
35. Thinking Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman) ISBN: 1846140552
36. Travels of a Tee Shirt in the global economy (Pietra Rivoli) ISBN: 0470287160
37. Triumph of the City (Edward Glaeser) ISBN: 0230709389
38. Upside of Irrationality (Dan Ariely) ISBN: 978-0-00-735476-4
39. Where Good Ideas Come From: Natural History of Innovation (Steven Johnson), ISBN:
184614051X
40. Worldly Philosophers (Robert Heilbroner) ISBN: 0140290060