Economics Book Colloquium

Books for Economics Students

• Previous Economics Book Colloquium Selections

  • The Property Species: Mine, Yours, and the Human Mind" by Bart J. Wilson
  • Why Parties? A Second Look by John H. Aldrich.
  • Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier by Edward Glaeser
  • The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress by Virginia Postrel
  • Tyranny Comes Home: The Domestic Fate of U.S. Militarism by Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail R. Hall
  • Socialism Sucks: Two Economist Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World by Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell
  • More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources―and What Happens Next by Andrew McAfee
  • How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom by Matt Ridley
  • The Essential Adam Smith by James Otteson; Humanomics: Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations for the Twenty-First Century by Veron L. Smith and Bart J. Wilson; The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World by Tim Harford
  • The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else by Hernando De Soto.
  • WTF?!: An Economic Tour of the Weird by Peter T. Leeson
  • Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy by Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght
  • Environmental Markets: A Property Rights Approach by Terry Anderson and Gary Libecap
  • Mainline Economics: Six Nobel Lectures in the Tradition of Adam Smith featuring F. A. Hayek, James M. Buchanan, Ronald H. Coase, Douglass C. North, Vernon L. Smith, and Elinor C. Ostrom
  • Various Articles and Chapters from Dr. Doug Walker, Dr. Robert Lawson, Dr. Todd Nesbit, and Dr. Jennifer Baker
  • Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity by William Baumol, Robert Litan, and Carl Schramm
  • White-collar government: The hidden role of class in economic policy making by Nicholas Carnes; Beyond Politics: The Roots of Government Failure by Randy Simmons
  • The Tyranny of Experts: Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor by William Easterly
  • Madmen, Intellectuals, and Academic Scribblers: The Economic Engine of Political Change by Wayne A. Leighton and Edward J. Lopez
  • In FED We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic by David Wessel
  • Why Most Things Fail by Paul Ormerod
  • The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good by William Easterly
  • Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley
  • Keynes Hayek by Nicholas Wapshott
  • Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
  • Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations by David Warsh
  • The Invisible Hook by Peter Leeson; Uncommon Sense by Gary Becker and Richard Posner
  • A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell
  • The Economics of Public Issues by Roger LeRoy Miller, Daniel K. Benjamin, and Douglas C. North
  • The Machinery of Freedom by David Friedman

• Books for Economics Students

  • Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
  • The Law by Frederic Bastiat
  • Economic Sophisms by Frederic Bastiat
  • Defending the Undefendable by Walter Block
  • Stealing from Each Other by Edgar Browning
  • Cost and Choice by James Buchanan
  • New Ideas from Dead Economists by Todd Bucholz
  • Discover Your Inner Economist by Tyler Cowen
  • The Elusive Quest for Growth by William Easterly
  • White Man's Burden by William Easterly
  • The Economic Naturalist by Robert Frank
  • Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
  • Free to Choose by Milton Friedman
  • Machinery of Freedom by David Friedman
  • Hidden Order by David Friedman
  • The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
  • The Logic of Life by Tim Harford
  • The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek
  • Capitalism and Historians by F.A. Hayek
  • Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
  • Time Will Run Back (Novel) by Henry Hazlitt
  • The Failure of the New Economics by Henry Hazlitt
  • Everything for Sale by Robert Kuttner
  • The Armchair Economist by Steven Landsburg
  • Fair Play by Steven Landsburg
  • Freakonomics by Steven Levit
  • A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Malkiel
  • Eat the Rich by PJ O'Rourke
  • On The Wealth of Nations by PJ O'Rourke
  • Fountain Head by Ayn Rand
  • Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
  • Capitalism the Unknown Ideal by Ayn Rand
  • The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade by Russell Roberts
  • The Price of Everything by Russell Roberts
  • Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen
  • Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy by Thomas Sowell
  • A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell
  • Marxism: Philosophy and Economics by Thomas Sowell
  • Civil Rights: Rhetoric Or Reality? by Thomas Sowell
  • Give Me a Break by John Stossel
  • Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity by John Stossel
  • Do the Right Thing by Walter Williams
  • More Liberty Means Less Government by Walter Williams
  • Why Globalization Works by Martin Wolf