Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Summer Reading

Recently a friend of mine, who is non-economics major, asked me to provide him a list of economic books that are non technical and interesting to read during the summer. Here’s what I come up with, in no particular order:

  1. The Armchair Economist, Steven Landsburg.
  2. More Sex is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics, Steven Landsburg.
  3. Freakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner.
  4. The Undercover Economist, Tim Harford.
  5. The Truth About Markets: Why Some Nations are Rich but Most Remain Poor, John Kay.
  6. The Elusive Quest for Growth, William Easterly.
  7. The White Man’s Burden, William Easterly.

If any of you have some other interesting titles that you have read or just dying to read, let me know. Enjoy the summer!

5 comments:

Puspini said...

Sir, sir, can we read these books by the beach? It is , after all, summer ;-)

Puspini said...

oh yah, what about The Commanding Heights?

Pasha said...

that's a good one. Have you seen the documentary?

Puspini said...

non, not yet...

embun said...

How about "The Economic Naturalist: In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas" by Robert H. Frank?? The book shows some interesting relationship between daily phenomena and economic concepts or even jargons.