Best Economics Books

Here are 50 of the best economics books every published based on the list in 50 Economics Classics: Your shortcut to the most important ideas on capitalism, finance, and the global economy by Tom Butler-Bowdon.

1. Milton Friedman: Capitalism and Freedom
2. Friedrich Hayek: The Use of Knowledge in Society
3. Deirdre McCloskey: Bourgeois Equality
4. Karl Marx: Capital
5. Ludwig von Mises: Human Action
6. Karl Polanyi The Great: Transformation
7. Ayn Rand Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
8. Joseph Schumpeter: Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
9. Julian Simon: The Ultimate Resource 2
10. Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations
11. Thorstein Veblen: The Theory of the Leisure Class
12. Max Weber: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Growth & Development Recipes for a more prosperous world
13. William Baumol: The Microtheory of Innovative Entrepreneurship
14. Gary Becker: Human Capital
15. Ha-Joon Chang: 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism
16. Peter Drucker: Innovation and Entrepreneurship
17. Robert J. Gordon: The Rise and Fall of American Growth
18. Jane Jacobs: The Economy of Cities
19. Thomas Malthus: An Essay on the Principle of Population
20. Dambisa Moyo: Dead Aid
21. Michael E. Porter: The Competitive Advantage of Nations
22. David Ricardo: Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
23. E. F. Schumacher: Small Is Beautiful
24. Hernando de Soto: The Mystery of Capital Adventures in Money & Finance Booms, busts, and getting rich slowly
25. Liaquat Ahamed: Lords of Finance
26. John Bogle: The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
27. Niall Ferguson: The Ascent of Money
28. J. K. Galbraith: The Great Crash 1929
29. Benjamin Graham: The Intelligent Investor
30. Michael Lewis: The Big Short
31. Hyman Minsky: Stabilizing An Unstable Economy
32. Robert Shiller: Irrational Exuberance
33. Joseph Stiglitz: The Euro Government, Markets & the Economy Citizens, not just consumers and producers
34. Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew McAfee: The Second Machine Age
35. Ronald Coase: The Firm, the Market and the Law
36. Diane Coyle: GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History
37. Henry George: Progress and Poverty
38. John Maynard Keynes: The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
39. Naomi Klein: The Shock Doctrine
40. Paul Krugman: The Conscience of a Liberal
41. Alfred Marshall: Principles of Economics
42. Thomas Piketty: Capital in the Twenty-First Century
43. Dani Rodrik: The Globalization Paradox
44. Paul Samuelson: Economics
45. Amartya Sen: Poverty and Famines Behavioral Economics
46. Albert O. Hirschman: Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
47. Steven Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner: Freakonomics
48. Elinor Ostrom: Governing the Commons
49. Thomas Schelling: Micromotives and Macrobehavior
50. Richard Thaler: Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics