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The Undercover Economist’s Top Ten Books
1st March 2008
A suitably wide-ranging and diverse choice by Tim Harford - good to see Schelling and John Kay in there. I will be looking to add a few of these to my ever-growing pile of books for reading during the Easter holiday!
1. The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
2. Micromotives and Macrobehavior by Thomas Schelling
3. The Poetry of Robert Frost, Complete and Unabridged by Robert Frost
4. Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton
5. The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod
6. The Winner’s Curse by Richard Thaler
7. The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith
8. The Hare and the Tortoise by John Kay
9. How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff
10. Why Buildings Fall Down by Matthys Levy and Mario Salvadori
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.