Until you’ve consumed all of the best Economy books, can you even claim to be a true fan?
- The Economy: Economics for a Changing World (2017)
- The Instant Economist: Everything You Need to Know About How the Economy Works (2012)
- China’s Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know® (2016)
- Talking to My Capitalism Works–and How It Fails (2019)
- The Political Economy of Latin America: Reflections on Neoliberalism and Development (2010)
- The Experience Economy, Updated Edition (2011)
- Vampire Economy: Doing Business Under Fascism (2014)
- International Political Economy: Sixth Edition (2018)
- Changing Contours of Work: Jobs and Opportunities in the New Economy (Sociology for a New Century Series) (2016)
- Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, Scholar’s Edition (2011)
- Ecology: The Economy of Nature (2013)
- The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade. New Preface and Epilogue with Updates on Economic Issues and Main Characters (2014)
The Economy: Economics for a Changing World (2017)
Oxford University Press has partnered with the international collaborative project of CORE researchers and teachers to bring students a text and learning system that complements and enhances CORE’s open-access eBook.The Economy: *offers new approach that integrates recent developments in economics including contract theory, strategic interaction, behavioral economics, and financial instability *challenges stu…
The Instant Economist: Everything You Need to Know About How the Economy Works (2012)
Economics isn’t just about numbers: it’s about politics, psychology, history, and so much more. We are all economists – when we work, save for the future, invest, pay taxes, and buy our groceries. Yet many of us feel lost when the subject arises. Award-winning professor Timothy Taylor tackles all the key questions and hot topics of both microeconomics and macroeconomics, including: * Why do budget deficits matter?
China’s Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know® (2016)
China’s Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know is a concise introduction to the most astonishing economic growth story of the last three decades. In the 1980s China was an impoverished backwater, struggling to escape the political turmoil and economic mismanagement of the Mao era.
Talking to My Capitalism Works–and How It Fails (2019)
Yanis Varoufakis has appeared before heads of nations, assemblies of experts, and countless students around the world. Now, he faces his most important―and difficult―audience yet. Using clear language and vivid examples, Varoufakis offers a series of letters to his young daughter about the economy: how it operates, where it came from, how it benefits some while impoverishing others.
The Political Economy of Latin America: Reflections on Neoliberalism and Development (2010)
Neoliberalism has been at the centre of enormous controversy since its first appearance in Latin America in the early 1970s.
The Experience Economy, Updated Edition (2011)
In 1999, Joseph Pine and James Gilmore offered this idea to readers as a new way to think about connecting with customers and securing their loyalty. As a result, their book The Experience Economy is now a classic, embraced by readers and companies worldwide and read in more than a dozen languages.And though the world has changed in many ways since then, the way to a customer’s heart has not.
Vampire Economy: Doing Business Under Fascism (2014)
Vampires are not just mythical creatures that come out and prowl for victims during a full moon. Today’s vampires are the politicians and bureaucrats who drain the lifeblood out of businesses through taxation,regulation, inflation, price controls, trade interference, fiat money, and attacks on private property. The Vampire Economy provides a frightening look at the consequences of state economic management.
International Political Economy: Sixth Edition (2018)
Broadly viewing the global economy as a political competition that produces winners and losers, International Political Economy holistically and accessibly introduces the field of IPE to students with limited background in political theory, history, and economics. This text surveys major interests and institutions and examines how state and non-state actors pursue wealth and power.
Changing Contours of Work: Jobs and Opportunities in the New Economy (Sociology for a New Century Series) (2016)
In the Third Edition of Changing Contours of Work: Jobs and Opportunities in the New Economy, Stephen Sweet and Peter Meiksins once again provide a rich analysis of the American workplace in the larger context of an integrated global economy.
Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, Scholar’s Edition (2011)
Murray N. Rothbard’s great treatise Man, Economy, and State and its complementary text Power and Market, are here combined into a single edition as they were written to be.
Ecology: The Economy of Nature (2013)
This landmark text helped to define introductory ecology courses for over four decades. With a dramatic transformation, Ecology: The Economy of Nature, Seventh Edition becomes the first textbook to fully embrace the challenges and opportunities of teaching ecology today.
The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade. New Preface and Epilogue with Updates on Economic Issues and Main Characters (2014)
The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy is a critically-acclaimed narrative that illuminates the globalization debates and reveals the key factors to success in global business. Tracing a T-shirt’s life story from a Texas cotton field to a Chinese factory and back to a U.S. storefront before arriving at the used clothing market in Africa, the book uncovers the political and economic forces at work in the global economy.
Best Economy Books Worth Your Attention
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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
The space economy at a glance.
Author(s): OECD
ID: 2143659, Publisher: OECD, Year: op., Size: 7 Mb, Format: pdf
Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard : Towards a Knowledge-Based Economy 2001.
Author(s): OECD
ID: 2148888, Publisher: Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development, Year: Oct. 2001, Size: 2 Mb, Format: pdf
Please note that this booklist is not errorless. Some books are truly chart-busters according to The New York Times, others are written by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant links you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.