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Enrichment Economics - Recommended Reading for Student Economists
10th December 2012
Seven new entries make it into my selection of thirty books designed to enrich, challenge and stretch able and ambitious students of our great subject.
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.Animal Spirits (Akerlof and Shiller) ISBN: 978-0-691-14233-3
4.Art of Strategy (Dixit and Nalebuff) ISBN: 978-0-393-06243-4 – especially good for Game Theory
5.Assumptions Economists Make: (Jonathan Schlefer), ISBN: 0674052269
6.Carbon Crunch: How We're Getting Climate Change Wrong (Dieter Helm), ISBN: 0300186592
7.Debunking Economics: (Steve Keen) ISBN: 978-1848139923
8.Development as Freedom: (Amartya Sen): ISBN: 0192893300
9.End this Depression Now! (Paul Krugman) ISBN: 978-0393088779
10.Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction: (Ken Binmore) 978-0199218462
11.Grand Pursuit: The Story of the People Who Made Modern Economics (Sylvia Nasar) ISBN: 1841154563
12.How Do We Fix This Mess?: The Economic Price of Having it All (Robert Peston), ISBN: 1444757091
13.How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities (John Cassidy) ISBN: 1846143004
14.Keynes – the Return of the Master (Skidelsky) ISBN: 184614258X
15.Made in Britain: How the nation earns its living: (Evan Davis) ISBN: 0349123780
16.Makers: The New Industrial Revolution, (Chris Anderson), ISBN: 184794065X
17.Paper Promises: Money, Debt and the New World Order (Philip Coggan) ISBN: 1846145104
18.Poor Economics: Rethinking Ways to Fight Global Poverty (Banerjee & Duflo) ISBN: 9781586487980
19.Positive Linking – Networks and Nudges (Paul Ormerod) ISBN: 0571279201 (forthcoming in 2012)
20.The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty (Dan Ariely) ISBN: 978-0062183590
21.The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Michael Lewis) ISBN: 1846142571
22.The Cost of Inequality: (Stewart Lansley) ISBN: 978-1908096296
23.The Economics of Enough: (Diane Coyle) ISBN: 0691145180
24.The Idea of Justice (Amartya Sen): ISBN: 0141037857
25.The New Industrial Revolution: (Peter Marsh) ISBN: 978-0300117776
26.The Plundered Planet: How to Reconcile Prosperity with Nature: (Paul Collier) ISBN: 1846142237
27.The Quest for Prosperity: How Developing Economies Can Take Off, (Justin Lin), ISBN: 0691155895
28.The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction (Nate Silver), ISBN: 1846147522
29.Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow: (Daniel Kahneman) ISBN: 1846140552
30.Worldly Philosophers: Lives, Times, and Ideas of Great Economic Thinkers (Heilbroner) ISBN: 0140290060
Reading list last updated Monday, December 10, 2012
The Enlightenment Economics blog written by Diane Coyle is excellent for keeping up to speed with the flow of new economics books that are being published at the moment: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.