Recommended Reading for Economics
Most of the non-fiction books below are written by economists, but are targeted at non experts. The classic works of fiction deal with significant economic issues.
Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Economics, A Very Short Introduction | The Grapes of Wrath |
| Partha Dasgupta | John Steinbeck |
| The Accidental Theorist: | A Beautiful Mind |
| and other dispatches from the dismal science | Sylvia Nasar |
| Paul R. Krugman | |
| The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists | |
| The Return of Depression Economics and the Crises of 2008 | Robert Tressell |
| Paul R. Krugman | |
| White Tiger | |
| Dead Aid: | Aravind Adiga |
| Why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa | |
| Dambisa Moyo | Animal Farm |
| George Orwell | |
| Freakonomics and Superfreakonomics | |
| Steven D. Levitt, Steven J. Dubner | Bonfire of the Vanities |
| Tom Woolfe | |
| Globalization and Its Discontents Globalization and Its Discontents | |
| Joseph E. Stiglitz | A Bend in the River |
| V.S. Naipaul | |
| The Roaring Nineties: Why We're Paying the Price | |
| for the Greediest Decade in History | Robinson Cruisoe |
| Joseph E. Stiglitz | Daniel Defoe |
| The Road to Surfdom | Fatal Equilibrium |
| F Hayek | Marshall Jevons |
| The Logic of Life | Player Piano |
| Tim Harford | Kurt Vonnegut |
| The Undercover Economist | Atlas Shrugged |
| Tim Harford | Ayn Rand |
| The Great Crash 1929 | The Great Gatsby |
| John Kenneth Galbraith | Scott Fitzgerald |
| The truth about markets | Sea of Poppies |
| John Kay | Amitav Ghosh |
| The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and | |
| What Can Be Done About it | |
| Paul Collier | |
| The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism | |
| Naomi Klein | |
| The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World | |
| Niall Ferguson | |
| Bad Science | |
| Ben Goldacre | |
| Freefall | |
| Joseph Stiglitz | |
| The Soulful Science | |
| Diane Coyle | |
| The Trouble with Markets | |
| Roger Bootle | |
| The Big Short | |
| Michael Lewis | |
| The Devil's Casino | |
| Vicky Ward | |
| Small is Beautiful | |
| Schumacher | |
| Keynes: The Return of the Master | |
| R Skidelsky | |
| Introduction to Political Philosophy | |
| Jonathan Wolff | |
| Problems of Philosophy | |
| Bertrand Russell | |
| Utilitarianism: For and Against | |
| J. Smart and B. Williams |
