Best Economics Books
1. 
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
by:
Adam Smith
3.88 avg rating β 34,381 ratings 
8. 
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
by:
Naomi Klein
4.29 avg rating β 51,937 ratings 9. 
Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
by:
Thomas Sowell
4.37 avg rating β 13,815 ratings 
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Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science
by:
Charles Wheelan
4.03 avg rating β 19,280 ratings 
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by:
Steven D. Levitt
4.01 avg rating β 885,842 ratings 14. 
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
by:
Niall Ferguson
3.90 avg rating β 30,147 ratings 
23. 
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
by:
Karl Polanyi
4.20 avg rating β 5,133 ratings 24. 
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
by:
Naomi Klein
4.16 avg rating β 27,262 ratings 25. 
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
by:
David S. Landes
3.96 avg rating β 3,855 ratings 26. 
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy 4.11 avg rating β 5,081 ratings
27. 
Principles of Political Economy: And Chapters on Socialism
by:
John Stuart Mill
3.81 avg rating β 231 ratings 28. 
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
by:
Muhammad Yunus
4.12 avg rating β 10,336 ratings 29. 
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
by:
Daron AcemoΔlu
4.09 avg rating β 59,216 ratings 32. 
The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008
by:
Paul Krugman
3.83 avg rating β 8,843 ratings 33. 
The Social Contract, a Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, and a Discourse on Political Economy 3.84 avg rating β 415 ratings
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Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy 3.88 avg rating β 4,042 ratings
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Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty 4.28 avg rating β 23,741 ratings
38. 
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
by:
Ha-Joon Chang
4.20 avg rating β 5,607 ratings 
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Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and the Government Bailout Will Make Things Worse 4.08 avg rating β 2,476 ratings
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The Enigma of Capital: And the Crises of Capitalism
by:
David Harvey
4.02 avg rating β 1,483 ratings 
51. 
How Rich Countries Got Rich and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor
by:
Erik S. Reinert
4.20 avg rating β 619 ratings 
53. 
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness 3.84 avg rating β 92,734 ratings
54. 
The Condition of the Working Class in England
by:
Friedrich Engels
4.03 avg rating β 3,605 ratings 55. 
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
by:
Bethany McLean
4.22 avg rating β 27,094 ratings 56. 
A Game as Old as Empire: The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption
by:
Steven Hiatt
3.82 avg rating β 392 ratings 
64. 
And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future
by:
Yanis Varoufakis
4.11 avg rating β 3,311 ratings 
66. 
False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World
by:
Alan Beattie
3.64 avg rating β 940 ratings 67. 
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The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too 3.95 avg rating β 488 ratings
70. 
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Worksβand How It Fails
by:
Yanis Varoufakis
4.13 avg rating β 20,006 ratings 71. 
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
by:
Steven D. Levitt
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 133,656 ratings 72. 
ECONned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism
by:
Yves Smith
4.03 avg rating β 435 ratings 
74. 
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets 4.08 avg rating β 69,684 ratings
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The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better 4.13 avg rating β 7,059 ratings
76. 
The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy
by:
Daniel Yergin
4.08 avg rating β 1,175 ratings 
78. 
The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups
by:
Mancur Olson
3.97 avg rating β 997 ratings 
81. 
The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time
by:
Antonia Juhasz
4.04 avg rating β 67 ratings 82. 
The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
by:
Hernando de Soto
3.99 avg rating β 4,345 ratings 
84. 
Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises
by:
Robert Z. Aliber
3.93 avg rating β 4,272 ratings 
86. 
How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities
by:
John Cassidy
4.06 avg rating β 2,931 ratings 87. 
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Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis
by:
James Rickards
3.97 avg rating β 4,990 ratings 90. 
Butterfly Economics: A New General Theory of Social and Economic Behavior
by:
Paul Ormerod
3.68 avg rating β 222 ratings 
92. 
Crash Proof 2.0: How to Profit from the Economic Collapse
by:
Peter D. Schiff
3.82 avg rating β 937 ratings 93. 
Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives
by:
Satyajit Das
3.85 avg rating β 1,906 ratings 
96. 
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
by:
Kate Raworth
4.17 avg rating β 15,073 ratings 
98. 
The Economics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker's Guide to Microeconomics
by:
Roderick Hill
4.10 avg rating β 174 ratings 
98. 
The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics 4.27 avg rating β 1,725 ratings