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Economics

Description: List of fundamental and useful books to master Economic science

Rank Title Author Added

1

The Wealth of Nations

6,305 members

46 reviews

3.9

Member: Bretzky1

2

Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy

by Joseph A. Schumpeter

1,354 members

11 reviews

4

Member: pomonomo2003

3

Human Action: A Treatise on Economics

by Ludwig Von Mises

1,037 members

10 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: raperper

4

Price theory, a provisional text

by Milton Friedman

11 members

2 reviews

5

Member: lawecon

5

Competition as a dynamic process

by John Maurice Clark

6 members

Member: parlerodermime

6

The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities

by Mancur Olson

299 members

3 reviews

4.1

Member: Bretzky1

7

Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles

by Jesús Huerta de Soto

100 members

½ 4.7

Member: raperper

8

Capital, Expectations, and the Market Process: Essays on the Theory of the Market Econony (Studies in Economic Theory)

by Ludwig M. Lachmann

25 members

1 review

4.1

Member: pomonomo2003

9

Exchange and production; theory in use

by Armen Albert Alchian

11 members

Member: lawecon

10

How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities

by John Cassidy

392 members

8 reviews

4.1

Member: Bretzky1

11

Man, Economy, and State

by Murray Rothbard

160 members

½ 4.3

Member: raperper

12

Marx's Revenge: The Resurgence of Capitalism and the Death of Statist Socialism

by Meghnad Desai

116 members

1 review

3.8

Member: pomonomo2003

13

Value and Capital

93 members

½ 3.3

Member: lawecon

14

The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else

by Hernando de Soto

1,257 members

9 reviews

4

Member: Bretzky1

15

The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times

by Giovanni Arrighi

433 members

6 reviews

3.8

Member: pomonomo2003

16

The Economic Way of Thinking

166 members

1 review

½ 4.4

Member: lawecon

17

Socialismo, Calculo Economico y Funcion Empresarial

by Jesús Huerta de Soto

22 members

4.8

Member: raperper

18

Economics in One Lesson

by Henry Hazlitt

2,691 members

39 reviews

4.2

Member: raperper

19

The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History

by David Hackett Fischer

491 members

9 reviews

3.8

Member: pomonomo2003

20

Competitive Advantage of Nations

by Michael E. Porter

395 members

1 review

3.9

Member: Bretzky1

21

The Competitive economy : selected readings

3 members

Member: lawecon

22

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

by David Graeber

2,919 members

74 reviews

4.2

Member: pomonomo2003

23

Principles of Economics

194 members

3 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: raperper

24

The Firm, the Market, and the Law

by Ronald H. Coase

189 members

½ 4.4

Member: lawecon

25

Economics After the Crisis: Objectives and Means (Lionel Robbins Lectures)

by Adair Turner

33 members

4

Member: Bretzky1

26

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are So Rich and Some So Poor

by David S. Landes

1,729 members

20 reviews

3.8

Member: Bretzky1

27

An Introduction to Economic Reasoning

by David Gordon

44 members

½ 4.3

Member: raperper

28

The Collected Works of Armen A. Alchian

by Armen Albert Alchian

31 members

5

Member: lawecon

29

Birth of Hegemony: Crisis, Financial Revolution, and Emerging Global Networks

by Andrew C. Sobel

6 members

Member: pomonomo2003

30

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

by Niall Ferguson

3,618 members

68 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: pomonomo2003

31

The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution

by Charles R. Morris

125 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Bretzky1

32

Institutions and Economic Theory: The Contribution of the New Institutional Economics (Economics, Cognition, and Society)

by Eirik G. Furubotn

22 members

5

Member: lawecon

33

by Jordi Franch Parella

1 member

1 review

4

Member: raperper

34

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty

by Daron Acemoglu

2,465 members

54 reviews

3.8

Member: Bretzky1

35

The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph

by Albert O. Hirschman

418 members

5 reviews

4

Member: pomonomo2003

36

New Institutional Economics: A Guidebook

by Éric Brousseau

20 members

Member: lawecon

37

Los errores de la vieja economía

by JUAN RAMÓN RALLO

1 member

4

Member: raperper

38

The Wheels of Commerce

by Fernand Braudel

1,196 members

9 reviews

4.2

Member: pomonomo2003

39

Economic Harmonies

by Claude Frédéric Bastiat

84 members

½ 3.6

Member: raperper

40

An outline of the science of political economy

by Nassau William Senior

9 members

1 review

5

Member: lawecon

41

The Theory of Political Economy

by William Stanley Jevons

63 members

4

Member: lawecon

42

A Treatise on Political Economy

by Jean Baptiste Say

57 members

3 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: raperper

43

by Frédéric Bastiat

1,887 members

30 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: raperper

44

The theory of price

by George J. Stigler

80 members

1 review

4.2

Member: lawecon

45

The Citizen and the State: Essays on Regulation

by George J. Stigler

17 members

1 review

4

Member: lawecon

46

The Theory of Dynamic Efficiency (Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy)

by Jesús Huerta de Soto

9 members

5

Member: raperper

47

Chicago Studies in Political Economy

by George J. Stigler

14 members

1 review

4

Member: lawecon

48

Economic Sophisms

by Claude Frédéric Bastiat

154 members

1 review

4

Member: lawecon

49

Selected Essays on Political Economy

by Claude Frédéric Bastiat

118 members

4.2

Member: lawecon

50

Competition and Entrepreneurship

by Israel M. Kirzner

85 members

1 review

½ 4.6

Member: raperper

51

Capital and Interest

by Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk

47 members

5

Member: raperper

52

The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism

679 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: raperper

53

Law, Legislation and Liberty: A new statement of the liberal principles of justice and political economy (Routledge Classics)

153 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: raperper

54

The Road to Serfdom

2,846 members

35 reviews

4.2

Member: raperper

55

The Constitution of Liberty

997 members

10 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: raperper

56

The Foundations of Morality

by Henry Hazlitt

79 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: raperper,lawecon

57

Centesimus Annus: On the Hundredth Anniversary of Rerum Novarum

by John Paul II

333 members

12 reviews

3.9

Member: raperper,lawecon

58

Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties

by Paul Johnson

1,173 members

16 reviews

4.1

Member: raperper,lawecon

59

The Ethics of Liberty

by Murray Rothbard

298 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: raperper,lawecon

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