While there are many courses and tutorials online, learning from a book is still one of the best ways to greatly improve your skills. Below I have selected top Economic books.
- Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (2019)
- Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics (1988)
- The Economics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (2018)
- The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (2016)
- Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics (2016)
- Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (2018)
- Economics: The Basics (Mcgraw-hill/Irwin Series in Economics) (2011)
- Economics: The User’s Guide (2015)
- Economics (The Mcgraw-hill Series) (2010)
- Economics For Dummies, 3rd Edition (2018)
- Essentials of Economics (8th Edition) (2010)
- Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (2012)
- Principles of Economics (2019)
Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (2019)
International bestseller “Clear, concise, informative, [and] witty.” ―Chicago TribuneAt last! A new edition of the economics book that won’t put you to sleep. In fact, you won’t be able to put this bestseller down. In our challenging economic climate, this perennial favorite of students and general readers is more than a good read, it’s a necessary investment―with a blessedly sure rate of return.
Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics (1988)
Considered among the leading economic thinkers of the “Austrian School,” which includes Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich (F.A.) Hayek, and others, Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993), was a libertarian philosopher, an economist, and a journalist.
The Economics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (2018)
From Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, to Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes, to the top economic thought leaders of today, The Economics Book is the essential reference for students and anyone else with an interest in how economies work. Easy-to-follow graphics, succinct quotations, and thoroughly accessible text throw light on the applications of economics, making them relatable through everyday examples and concerns.Employing DK’s trademark visual approach, The Economics Book takes a frequen…
The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (2016)
Former economic hit man John Perkins shares new details about the ways he and others cheated countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Then he reveals how the deadly EHM cancer he helped create has spread far more widely and deeply than ever in the US and everywhere else—to become the dominant system of business, government, and society today.
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics (2016)
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics Get ready to change the way you think about economics.Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans―predictable, error-prone individuals.
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (2018)
A Financial Times “Best Book of 2017: Economics” 800-CEO-Read “Best Business Book of 2017: Current Events & Public Affairs” Economics is the mother tongue of public policy.
Economics: The Basics (Mcgraw-hill/Irwin Series in Economics) (2011)
Mandel’s Economics: The Basics combines the traditional news values of immediacy and impact with a layer of educational explanation to provide a window into what’s happening in the current economy.
Economics: The User’s Guide (2015)
In his bestselling 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism, Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang brilliantly debunked many of the predominant myths of neoclassical economics. Now, in an entertaining and accessible primer, he explains how the global economy actually works–in real-world terms. Writing with irreverent wit, a deep knowledge of history, and a disregard for conventional economic pieties, Chang offers insights that will never be found in the textbooks.
Economics (The Mcgraw-hill Series) (2010)
Steve Slavin’s lively and comprehensive Economics has a student-friendly, step-by-step approach; value pricing; and a built-in Workbook/Study Guide. Instructors and students like the author’s humorous anecdotes, direct language, patient step-by-step treatment of math, and easy conversational style. The text encourages active rather than passive reading.
Economics For Dummies, 3rd Edition (2018)
This book gives you everything you need to understand our rapidly evolving economy—as well as the economic fundamentals that never change. What's the best way to fight poverty? How can governments spur employment and wage growth? What can be done to protect endangered species and the environment? This book explains the answers to those questions—and many more—in plain English.
Essentials of Economics (8th Edition) (2010)
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Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (2012)
Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free life-saving immunizations, but pay for unnecessary drugs? In Poor Economics, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two award-winning MIT professors, answer these questions based on years of field research from around the world.
Principles of Economics (2019)
In the beginning, there was Menger. It was his Principles of Economics that reformulated — and really rescued — economic science from the theoretical errors of the old classical school.Menger set out to elucidate the precise nature of economic value, and to root economics firmly in the real-world actions of individual human beings.
Best Economic Books to Read
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Economics for business : competition, macro-stability, and globalisation
Author(s): Dermot McAleese
ID: 1175742, Publisher: Pearson Education, Year: [2009?], Size: 5 Mb, Format: pdf
Dialectical economics: an introduction to Marxist political economy /
Author(s): Lyn Marcus [i.e. L. H. LaRouche].
ID: 3229980, Publisher: Heath,, Year: [1975], Size: 84 Mb, Format: pdf
Theories of economic development and growth.
Author(s):
ID: 1285178, Publisher: Allen & Unwin, Year: [1969], Size: 10 Mb, Format: pdf
Please note that this booklist is not errorless. Some books are truly hot items according to Chicago Tribune, others are drafted by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant books you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.