Mr. Frackelton

Honors Economics

Econ Pop Book Project

 Directions: o Select a book from this list that you have not read before. Hopefully, we will have a diverse selection of books in the class and preferably only have one student per book (rank books if necessary). o Read the book and think about connections to our class and economic principles. o Find a central economic theme for the book o After you finish the book, you are to create a book report based on that theme and give the class a brief overview of the book as well as the theme. o Your book report will include a 2 page summary of the book and theme. o Your "book report" visual may take many forms to present to the class. . podcast . mini documentary/video . comic strip cartoons . Prezi/powerpoint . Storify etc. o A more detailed rubric will follow.

 Books:

o The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Heilbroner o The Armchair Economist: Economics and Everyday Life by Steven E. Landsburg o Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner

o Think like a Freak by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner

o The Big Short by Michael Lewis o Flashboys by Michael Lewis o A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Malkiel o Confessions of an Economic Hit man, by John Perkins o Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception, by Robert Shiller o Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein o Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely o The Upside of Irrationality by Dan Ariely o Naked Economics by Charles Wheelan o Free to Choose by Milton Friedman o Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki o The Richest Man in Babylon by George Clason o End this Depression Now by Paul Krugman o Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Picketty o Crash Proof 2.0 by Peter Schiff o The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb o The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas Stanley o The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford o The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley o The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity by Russ Roberts o The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life by Uri Gneezy and John List o The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies by Bryan Kaplan o Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu, James Robinson o Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman o The Price of Inequality by Joseph Stiglitz o The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham o New Ideas from Dead Economists by Todd Buchholz o Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand o Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg o Irrational Exuberance 3rd edition by Robert Shiller o Stocks for the Long Run 5th edition by Jeremy Siegel o Misbehaving: The making of Behavioral Economics, by Richard Thaler o Common Sense Economics, by James D. Gwartney o How Adam Smith can change your life, by Russ Roberts