Economics

This is an alphabetical version.  For a subjective ranked version see: Ranked: Economics

 

Below are non-fiction books with a focus on economic

A

• Adam's Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology by Duncan K. Foley
• Alternative Theories of Competition: Challenges to the Orthodoxy edited by Jamee K Moudud, Cyrus Bina, Patrick L Mason
• America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy by Gar Alperovitz
• An International Economy: Problems and Prospects by Gunnar Myrdal

C

• Capital and Exploitation by John Weeks
• Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
• Capitalism: A Conversation In Critical Theory by Nancy Fraser, and Rahel Jarggi
• Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
• Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World by Branko Milanović
• Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises by Anwar Shaikh
• Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy by Joseph Schumpeter
• Capital, Vol. 1: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production by Karl Marx
• Capital, Vol. 2: The Process of Circulation of Capital by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
• Capital, Vol. 3: The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
• The Clash of Economic Ideas by Lawrence H. White
• Confidence Games: Money and Markets in a World without Redemption by Mark C. Taylor
• The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America--and What We Can Do to Stop It by Thom Hartmann

D

• Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth

E

• The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations? by Ian Bremmer
• The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths by Mariana Mazzucato
• Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation by Peter B. Evans

F

• The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism by Friedrich A. Hayek

G

• The Global Free Trade Error: The Infeasibility of Ricardo's Comparative Advantage Theory by Ron Baiman
• Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump by Joseph E. Stiglitz
• Globalization and Progressive Economic Policy edited by Dean Baker, Gerald A. Epstein, Robert Pollin
• Global Responsible Intergenerational Leadership: A conceptual framework and implementation guidance for intergenerational fairness by Julia M. Puaschunder
• Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity by William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan, Carl J. Schramm
• The Growth Map: Economic Opportunity in the BRICs and Beyond by Jim O'Neill

I

• Individualism and Economic Order by Friedrich A. Hayek
• Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism's Final Crisis by John Smith

K

• Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics by Nicholas Wapshott

M

• Marx's General: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels by Tristram Hunt
• Measuring the Wealth of Nations: The Political Economy of National Accounts by Anwar Shaikh, E. Ahmet Tonak
• The Middleman Economy: How Brokers, Agents, Dealers, and Everyday Matchmakers Create Value and Profit by Marina Krakovsky
• The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street by Justin Fox

N

• The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins

O

• On Classical Economics by Thomas Sowell
• On Pauperism in Present and Past by Jan Breman
• The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric D. Beinhocker
• Outsourcing Economics by William S. Milberg, Deborah Winkler

P

• Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else by Chrystia Freeland
• The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future by Joseph E. Stiglitz
• The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation by David Ricardo
• Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities: Prelude to a Critique of Economic Theory by Piero Sraffa
• Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order by Noam Chomsky
• Progress and Poverty by Henry George

R

• The Rent-Seeking Society by Gordon Tullock
• The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 by Paul Krugman

S

• The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters by Diane Coyle

T

• Teachings from the Worldly Philosophy by Robert L. Heilbroner
• A Theory of Imperialism by Utsa Patnaik, Prabhat Patnaik
• Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
• The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade by Pietra Rivoli

U

• Understanding Capital: Marx's Economic Theory by Duncan K. Foley

W

• The Wealth Of Nations by Adam Smith
• The Worldly Philosophers by Robert L. Heilbroner

Z

• The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism by Jeremy Rifkin