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March 2010 list from Dr. Mankiw

  • Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom
  • Robert Heilbroner, The Worldly Philosophers
  • Paul Krugman, Peddling Prosperity
  • Steven Landsburg, The Armchair Economist
  • P.J. O'Rourke, Eat the Rich
  • Burton Malkiel, A Random Walk Down Wall Street
  • Avinash Dixit and Barry Nalebuff, Thinking Strategically
  • Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, Freakonomics
  • John McMillan, Reinventing the Bazaar
  • William Breit and Barry T. Hirsch, Lives of the Laureates


Jan 2010

Freefall
America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy
By Joseph E. Stiglitz
Crash Course
The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster
By Paul Ingrassia
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes
Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
By Daniel L. Everett

The Power and the Glory

by Graham Greene

Deep River

by Shusaku Endo

The Checklist Manifesto

How To Get Things Right

By Atul Gawande

Henry Hazlitt, "Economics In One Lesson" (1947).

This book is theclassic introduction to economics for the non-economist. Its author is perhaps the finest economic journalist ever to write in English; he understood economics more profoundly than do most Ph.D. economists. And although some small aspects of this book are outdated, the vast bulk of it stands up well today.

Russell Roberts, "The Invisible Heart" (2001).

I buy this book by the case and give a copy to anyone and everyone I encounter who is interested in learning more about the economic way of thinking. As with Roberts' other book, "The Choice," this book is formally a work of fiction. Also as with his earlier book, Roberts here uses dialogue between different characters in the book to teach economics to his readers

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The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek)

F. A. Hayek (Author), Bruce Caldwell (Editor, Introduction, Foreword)


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