Books I like |
Favorite Economics Books to Recommend to Non-Economists
Capitalism
and Freedom
Milton Friedman
Economics
in One Lesson
Henry Hazlitt
The Road
to Serfdom
Frederich von Hayek
The Armchair
Economist
Steven Landsburg
A
Radical’s Guide to Economic Reality
Angus Black
Murder and the Margin and The Fatal Equilibrium
Marshall Jevons (two murder mysteries)
William Breit and Kenneth Elzinga
The Worldly
Philosophers
Robert Heilbroner
Hidden Order-The Economics of Everyday Life
David Friedman
Economics
as a Science
Kenneth E. Boulding
The Price System and Resource Allocation
Richard H. Leftwich
Note: Some of these are easy reads
and fun; others are neither, but are well worth the effort.
Jevons, Landsburg, Black and Heilbroner are all interesting, but fairly
easy reads that hopefully will spark one’s interest in the subject.
Milton Friedman and Hayek may be a bit tedious for some readers, but are
always timely reminders of the foundations of, and threats to, freedom.
Hazlitt, David Friedman and Boulding are excellent introductions to some
of the many diverse theories and applications of economics as a social science,
and Leftwich is for the person who has already developed a significant interest
in economics, but now needs to learn more about how the market system is
organized and functions.