Recommended Reading Lists for Economics Students

With thanks to many contributors from the Economics Blog: http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/economics/

1. Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World () ISBN: 0713999829 2. Basic Instincts (Pete Lunn) Marshall Cavendish ISBN: 9780462099200 (New) 3. Chancellor’s Tales (Howard Davies) ISBN: 0745638856 4. Commonwealth, Economics for a Crowded Plant (Jeffrey Sachs) ISBN: 9780713999198 (New) 5. Development as Freedom: (Amartya Sen): ISBN: 0192893300 6. Discover Your Inner Economist (Tyler Cowen), 0525950257 7. Economic Naturalist, (Robert H Frank), 046500217X 8. Economics – Very Short Introduction: (Partha Dasgupta): ISBN: 0192853457 9. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets ISBN: 0141031484 10. Game Theory – Very Short Introduction: (Ken Binmore): ISBN: 0199218463 11. Great Crash of 1929 (JK Galbraith) ISBN: 0140136096 and other works by Galbraith 12. Logic of Life (Tim Harford): ISBN: 0316027561 (New) 13. New Ideas from Dead Economists: (Todd Buchholz): ISBN 0140283137 14. New Paradigm for Financial Markets (George Soros) ISBN: 978-1586486839 (New) 15. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Thaler and Sunstein) ISBN: 978- 0300122237 (New) 16. Predictably Irrational: Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Dan Ariely) ISBN: 0007256523 (New) 17. Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction (TK McCraw) ISBN: 0674025237 18. The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing (Paul Collier): ISBN: 0195311450 19. The Long Tail: How Endless Choice Is Creating Unlimited Demand (Chris Anderson) ISBN: 184413850X 20. The Mystery of Capital (Hernando de Soto) ISBN: 0552999237 21. Thinking Strategically (Dixit and Nalebuff) – Norton: ISBN: 0393310353 22. Who Runs Britain? How the Super-Rich are Changing our Lives (Robert Peston) ISBN: 0340839422 (New) 23. Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies: And Other Pricing Puzzles (McKenzie) ISBN: 0387769994 24. Wikinomics: (Don Tapscott); ISBN: 1843546361 25. Worldy Philosophers (Robert Heilbroner) ISBN: 0140290060

Geoff Riley Last updated: Thursday, 19 June 2008

Geoff Riley – Recommended Reading List – June 2008 Oxbridge reading on the Internet In addition to the reading list above there is a wealth of contemporary comment and analysis pieces available through the internet and also in published magazines (some of which are accessible online). Prospect Magazine: http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/landing_page.php See also http://blog.prospectblogs.com/ Spectator Magazine: http://www.spectator.co.uk/ See also http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/ The Economist: www.economist.com New Statesman: http://www.newstatesman.com/ Comment pieces by Anatole Kaletsky (the archetypal “contrarian”!): http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/anatole_kaletsky Tyler Cowen’s ‘Marginal Revolution’ http://www.marginalrevolution.com/

Economics and Management Any articles on management and business strategy by John Kay: http://www.johnkay.com/recent/ Articles on business and economics trends by Hamish McRae: http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists_m_z/hamish_mcrae/ Financial Times comment and analysis http://www.ft.com/comment David Smith’s Blog (Sunday Times) http://www.economicsuk.com/blog/ New Economist Blog http://neweconomist.blogs.com/new_economist/ Times online business news http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/ Anatole Kaletsky: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/anatole_kaletsky/ John Gapper (Financial Times): http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/ Willem Buiter (Maverecon): http://blogs.ft.com/maverecon/ Stephen King (HSBC Global Economist): http://www.hsbcnet.com/hsbc/research

Periodicals Far Eastern Economic Review Centrepiece (published by the School of Economics) Management Today Remember to read the Economist every week!

The important thing is to think about what you are reading and to form some opinions on what is happening in the world around you - and what light economics can shed on it. A commitment and passion for the subject is essential if you are to apply to a top university to read Economics or related subjects