Best Economics Books
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The Truth About Markets: Their Genius, Their Limits, Their Follies
by:
John Kay
3.86 avg rating β 355 ratings 103. 
The Making of Modern Economics: The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers
by:
Mark Skousen
3.96 avg rating β 464 ratings 105. 
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by:
Dan Ariely
4.12 avg rating β 129,363 ratings 106. 
The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress
by:
Joel Mokyr
4.05 avg rating β 296 ratings 107. 
What Has Government Done to Our Money? and The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar 4.27 avg rating β 2,860 ratings
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The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life - Revised Edition
by:
Paul Seabright
3.68 avg rating β 300 ratings 108. 
The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy
by:
Mervyn A. King
4.07 avg rating β 2,180 ratings 110. 
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Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science
by:
Dani Rodrik
3.94 avg rating β 1,403 ratings 
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The Accidental Theorist and Other Dispatches from the Dismal Science
by:
Paul Krugman
3.89 avg rating β 1,023 ratings 117. 
The Free-Market Innovation Machine: Analyzing the Growth Miracle of Capitalism 3.86 avg rating β 29 ratings
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Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
by:
Liaquat Ahamed
4.03 avg rating β 16,187 ratings 
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Against Austerity: How we Can Fix the Crisis they Made
by:
Richard Seymour
4.05 avg rating β 63 ratings 120. 
Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens
by:
Nicholas Shaxson
4.19 avg rating β 1,905 ratings 122. 
Economic Jihad: Putting the Kibosh on Antiquated Social Axioms Defining Us
by:
Jo M. Sekimonyo
4.52 avg rating β 31 ratings 122. 
The Masculine Mind: Alpha Male Life Lessons on Careers, Money, Relationships & Women
by:
Dylan Thrasher
3.73 avg rating β 22 ratings 124. 
The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates
by:
Peter T. Leeson
3.75 avg rating β 1,311 ratings 125. 
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Buddhist Economics: An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science
by:
Clair Brown
3.53 avg rating β 206 ratings 
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Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II
by:
Arthur Herman
4.32 avg rating β 2,554 ratings 
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Heaven's Bankers: Inside the Hidden World of Islamic Finance
by:
Harris Irfan
3.89 avg rating β 118 ratings 131. 
The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy
by:
Raj Patel
3.76 avg rating β 1,729 ratings 
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The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets
by:
Jason Hickel
4.61 avg rating β 3,649 ratings 135. 
The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
by:
Tyler Cowen
3.64 avg rating β 1,818 ratings 
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Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street 3.86 avg rating β 1,760 ratings
138. 
Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? A Story About Women and Economics
by:
Katrine Marçal
3.67 avg rating β 3,788 ratings 141. 
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms 3.78 avg rating β 10,641 ratings
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The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths 3.95 avg rating β 3,269 ratings
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Monetary theory; Inflation, interest, and growth in the world economy 4.22 avg rating β 9 ratings
143. 
Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets
by:
Robert Kuttner
3.94 avg rating β 80 ratings 143. 
Economics for Real People: An Introduction to the Austrian School
by:
Gene Callahan
4.17 avg rating β 583 ratings 
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The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World's Most Prosperous Decade 3.92 avg rating β 598 ratings
148. 
Cartoon Introduction to Economics, Volume I: Microeconomics
by:
Yoram Bauman
4.15 avg rating β 1,149 ratings 150. 
The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better
by:
Tyler Cowen
3.73 avg rating β 2,363 ratings 150. 
Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy
by:
Michael Hudson
4.34 avg rating β 362 ratings 
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Gods of Money: Wall Street and the Death of the American Century 4.17 avg rating β 421 ratings
157. 
Economix: How and Why Our Economy Works (and Doesn't Work), in Words and Pictures
by:
Michael Goodwin
4.32 avg rating β 4,643 ratings 
157. 
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
by:
Marc Levinson
3.86 avg rating β 6,744 ratings 
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Hubris: Why Economists Failed to Predict the Crisis and How to Avoid the Next One
by:
Meghnad Desai
3.66 avg rating β 77 ratings 164. 
International Bankster$ (The Underground Knowledge Series, #5)
by:
James Morcan
3.79 avg rating β 389 ratings 165. 
Politics and Markets : The World's Political-Economic Systems really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 53 ratings
165. 
The New Human Rights Movement: Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression
by:
Peter Joseph
4.34 avg rating β 612 ratings 167. 
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
by:
Bryan Burrough
4.28 avg rating β 42,419 ratings 168. 
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
by:
Charles Mackay
3.82 avg rating β 4,975 ratings 
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People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent 3.88 avg rating β 2,013 ratings
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50 Economics Classics: Your shortcut to the most important ideas on capitalism, finance, and the global economy (50 Classics) 4.20 avg rating β 528 ratings
179. 
Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right
by:
Jennifer Burns
3.87 avg rating β 827 ratings 
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The Market System: What It Is, How It Works, and What To Make of It 3.52 avg rating β 121 ratings
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century 3.69 avg rating β 102,339 ratings
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Dignity and Defiance: Stories from Bolivia's Challenge to Globalization
by:
James Shultz
4.17 avg rating β 36 ratings 184. 
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis β and Themselves 4.15 avg rating β 41,834 ratings
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Leaving Neverland: Why Little Boys Shouldn't Run Big Corporations
by:
Daniel Prokop
4.67 avg rating β 3 ratings 188. 
The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy
by:
Lisa Dodson
3.60 avg rating β 148 ratings 189. 
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Thieves' World: The Threat of the New Global Network of Organized Crime
by:
Claire Sterling
3.96 avg rating β 24 ratings 
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When Money Dies: The Nightmare of the Weimar Hyper-inflation
by:
Adam Fergusson
3.79 avg rating β 1,962 ratings 194. 
Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich
by:
Kevin Phillips
3.92 avg rating β 646 ratings 195. 
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Die Red Bull Story: Der unglaubliche Erfolg des Dietrich Mateschitz 3.21 avg rating β 67 ratings
195. 
The Next Boom: What You Absolutely, Positively Have to Know About the World Between Now and 2025
by:
Jack W. Plunkett
3.62 avg rating β 16 ratings 
195. 
Supply Shock: Economic Growth at the Crossroads and the Steady State Solution
by:
Brian Czech
3.96 avg rating β 68 ratings 195. 