Best Popular Economics Books on Goodreads
101. 
The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy
by:
Daniel Yergin
4.08 avg rating — 1,175 ratings 102. 
106. 
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
by:
Karl Polanyi
4.20 avg rating — 5,134 ratings 106. 
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
by:
Muhammad Yunus
4.12 avg rating — 10,336 ratings 
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The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy 4.05 avg rating — 130,139 ratings
113. 
Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism 3.77 avg rating — 5,114 ratings
114. 
The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
by:
Joel Bakan
4.07 avg rating — 4,787 ratings 115. 
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
by:
David S. Landes
3.96 avg rating — 3,855 ratings 115. 
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive
by:
Jared Diamond
3.93 avg rating — 73,876 ratings 115. 
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
by:
Marc Levinson
3.86 avg rating — 6,744 ratings 118. 
The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World
by:
Tim Harford
3.81 avg rating — 5,813 ratings 119. 
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
by:
Paul Collier
3.85 avg rating — 7,939 ratings 120. 
What Has Government Done to Our Money? and The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar 4.27 avg rating — 2,860 ratings
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Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy 4.11 avg rating — 5,081 ratings
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The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
by:
Chris Anderson
3.82 avg rating — 29,932 ratings 
132. 
The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics 4.27 avg rating — 1,725 ratings
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134. 
Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis
by:
James Rickards
3.97 avg rating — 4,990 ratings 
138. 
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
by:
Jane Mayer
4.31 avg rating — 26,734 ratings 139. 
New Ideas from Dead Economists: An Introduction to Modern Economic Thought
by:
Todd G. Buchholz
3.84 avg rating — 2,369 ratings 
141. 
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
by:
Rutger Bregman
4.21 avg rating — 41,581 ratings 
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145. 
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
by:
Edward S. Herman
4.24 avg rating — 23,241 ratings 
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148. 
The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire
by:
Neil Irwin
4.05 avg rating — 1,412 ratings 
150. 
Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
by:
Muhammad Yunus
3.97 avg rating — 3,205 ratings 151. 
152. 
The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable 3.86 avg rating — 1,959 ratings
153. 
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
by:
Daniel Yergin
4.18 avg rating — 5,493 ratings 155. 
The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century
by:
Paul Krugman
3.91 avg rating — 2,010 ratings 156. 
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America 3.71 avg rating — 13,905 ratings
156. 
The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy
by:
Raj Patel
3.76 avg rating — 1,729 ratings 158. 
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
by:
David Graeber
4.02 avg rating — 6,100 ratings 
162. 
Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day
by:
Daryl Collins
3.95 avg rating — 1,161 ratings 163. 
The Little Book of Economics: How the Economy Works in the Real World
by:
Greg Ip
3.73 avg rating — 1,248 ratings 164. 
Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens
by:
Nicholas Shaxson
4.19 avg rating — 1,905 ratings 165. 
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies 3.91 avg rating — 12,074 ratings
165. 
The Simple Path to Wealth: Your Road Map to Financial Independence and a Rich, Free Life
by:
J.L. Collins
4.42 avg rating — 29,318 ratings 167. 
The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
by:
Tyler Cowen
3.64 avg rating — 1,818 ratings 168. 
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
by:
Don Tapscott
3.73 avg rating — 10,986 ratings 168. 
171. 
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
by:
Charles Wheelan
3.96 avg rating — 14,835 ratings 171. 
The Essays of Warren Buffett : Lessons for Corporate America
by:
Warren Buffett
4.33 avg rating — 8,062 ratings 
175. 
The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns
by:
John C. Bogle
4.15 avg rating — 25,039 ratings 
180. 
An Economist Walks into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk
by:
Allison Schrager
3.55 avg rating — 2,140 ratings 181. 
Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
by:
Dan Senor
4.11 avg rating — 12,440 ratings 181. 
The Fiat Standard: Debt Slavery Alternative to Human Civilization
by:
Saifedean Ammous
4.24 avg rating — 1,568 ratings 183. 
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
by:
Daniel Yergin
4.43 avg rating — 12,042 ratings 183. 
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by:
Eric Schlosser
3.75 avg rating — 206,251 ratings 185. 
Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology
by:
Max Weber
4.12 avg rating — 1,566 ratings 186. 
Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
by:
Matt Taibbi
4.16 avg rating — 9,538 ratings 
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188. 
Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism
by:
Bhu Srinivasan
4.39 avg rating — 1,939 ratings 
191. 
Why Government Is the Problem (Essays in Public Policy) (Volume 39)
by:
Milton Friedman
4.16 avg rating — 1,124 ratings 192. 
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
by:
Yanis Varoufakis
4.13 avg rating — 20,011 ratings 192. 
On The Wealth of Nations (Books That Changed the World)
by:
P.J. O'Rourke
3.54 avg rating — 1,569 ratings 194. 
Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy
by:
Karl Marx
4.28 avg rating — 1,923 ratings 195. 
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
by:
Nancy Isenberg
3.76 avg rating — 24,558 ratings 
197. 
The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition
by:
Jonathan Tepper
4.12 avg rating — 1,187 ratings 
199. 
The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
by:
Thomas Sowell
4.40 avg rating — 3,313 ratings 200. 
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business 4.04 avg rating — 58,903 ratings