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Wednesday, 28 February 2018

Economics Reading List - March 2018

Check out the list of books I may read between now and the holidays. 
1.    23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism (Ha-Joon Chang) – challenges conventional thinking
2.    Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance: (Ian Goldin & Chris Kutarna)
3.    Alibaba: The House that Jack Ma Built (Duncan Clark) – The rise of the Chinese corporate giant
4.    Almighty Dollar (Dharshini David) – follows the journey of a single $ to show how the global economy works
5.    Capitalism Without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy (Haskel and Westlake)
6.    Capitalism: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know (Jonathan Portes) – compact and excellent reference material
7.    Choice Factory (Richard Shotton) – a story of 25 behavioural biases that influence what we buy
8.    Doughnut Economics (Kate Raworth) – challenges much of orthodox thinking in the subject
9.    Drunkard’s Walk (Leonard Mlodinow) – a brilliant history of Maths with lots of relevant applications
10.  Economics for the Common Good (Jean Tirole) – applied micro from a recent Nobel prize winner
11.  GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History (Professor Diane Coyle) – really good on the GDP / well-being debate
12.  Grave New World: (Stephen King) – Former head of Econ at HSBC looks at the fracturing global economy
13.  Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today (Linda Yueh) – perspectives on contemporary issues
14.  Growth Delusion: The Wealth and Well-Being of Nations (David Pilling) – antidote to gospel of GDP
15.  Inequality (Anthony Atkinson) – a superb book on one of the defining economic/political issues of the age
16.  Inner Lives of Markets: How People Shape Them—And They Shape Us (Sharman and Fishman)
17.  Limits of the Market: The Pendulum Between Government and the Market (Paul De Grauwe)
18.  Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics (Richard Thaler) – a truly superb biography
19.  Plundered Planet: How to Reconcile Prosperity with Nature: (Professor Paul Collier) – development classic
20.  Poor Economics: Rethinking Ways to Fight Global Poverty (Banerjee & Duflo) – development economics
21.  Positive Linking – Networks and Nudges (Paul Ormerod) – good introduction to network economics
22.  Rise and Fall of Nations: Ten Rules of Change in the Post-Crisis World (Richir Sharma)
23.  Risk Savvy - How to make good decisions (Gerd Gigerenzer) – the world of heuristics and risk management
24.  Ten Great Economists (Philip Thornton) – biographical background, well worth a read
25.  The Box - How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, (Levinson)
26.  The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (Brad Stone) – a great business page turner
27.  The Great Divide (Professor Joseph Stiglitz) – one of the classic critiques of globalisation
28.  The Great Escape (Professor Angus Deaton) – a broad sweep of economic history and poverty reduction
29.  The Undoing Project: (Michael Lewis) – Tracks the birth of behavioural economics, Kahneman and Tversky
30.  Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow: (Professor Daniel Kahneman) – the classic Kahneman epic on psychology
31.  Upstarts: How Uber and Airbnb are changing the world (Brad Stone) Follow up to his work on Amazon
32.  What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets (Michael Sandel) – Pure PPE bliss
33.  Who Gets What - And Why: Understand the Choices You Have; Improve the Choices You Make (Al Roth)
34.  Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies (Cesar Hidalgo) – challenging
35.  World of Three Zeroes (Muhammad Yunus) – new book from founder of the Grameen Bank

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