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Economics Books
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![Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1550917827l/1202._SX50_.jpg)
by (shelved 5596 times as economics)
avg rating 4.01 — 858,593 ratings — published 2005
![Capital in the Twenty First Century](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1390111547l/18736925._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 2952 times as economics)
avg rating 4.06 — 32,398 ratings — published 2013
![An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1567191193l/25698._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 2491 times as economics)
avg rating 3.88 — 33,173 ratings — published 1776
![Economics in One Lesson](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1565397589l/3028._SX50_.jpg)
by (shelved 2092 times as economics)
avg rating 4.17 — 20,008 ratings — published 1946
![Debt: The First 5,000 Years](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1390408633l/6617037._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 1883 times as economics)
avg rating 4.21 — 22,757 ratings — published 2011
![The Road to Serfdom](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1327787673l/299215._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 1826 times as economics)
avg rating 4.16 — 23,947 ratings — published 1944
![Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1344679036l/10245602._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 1721 times as economics)
avg rating 4.28 — 22,231 ratings — published 2011
![Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1388328985l/3023._SX50_.jpg)
by (shelved 1685 times as economics)
avg rating 4.36 — 12,707 ratings — published 2000
![Capitalism and Freedom](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1569784719l/51877._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 1589 times as economics)
avg rating 3.91 — 13,918 ratings — published 1962
![The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1714172313l/242472._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 1543 times as economics)
avg rating 3.96 — 113,295 ratings — published 2007
![The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1446581171l/26889576._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 1508 times as economics)
avg rating 4.30 — 161,974 ratings — published 2010
![The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1442590618l/1237300._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 1342 times as economics)
avg rating 4.27 — 48,524 ratings — published 2007
![Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1459531022l/26530355._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 1325 times as economics)
avg rating 4.16 — 21,666 ratings — published 2016
![The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1297236908l/2714607._SX50_.jpg)
by (shelved 1314 times as economics)
avg rating 3.90 — 28,959 ratings — published 2007
![The Undercover Economist](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1438041608l/70420._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 1307 times as economics)
avg rating 3.81 — 28,303 ratings — published 2005
![Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1562348201l/51014619._SX50_SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 1301 times as economics)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,255 ratings — published 2019
![The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (Great Minds)](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1415594896l/303615._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 1279 times as economics)
avg rating 3.85 — 5,451 ratings — published 1935
![Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1348322381l/3450744._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 1196 times as economics)
avg rating 3.84 — 87,927 ratings — published 2008
![Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1529039596l/40180021._SX50_.jpg)
by (shelved 1176 times as economics)
avg rating 4.03 — 18,621 ratings — published 2002
![The Communist Manifesto](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1565912767l/30474._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 1132 times as economics)
avg rating 3.66 — 169,686 ratings — published 1848
![Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1631512272l/29214420._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 1130 times as economics)
avg rating 4.19 — 13,454 ratings — published 2017
![Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1388180506l/38315._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 1036 times as economics)
avg rating 4.08 — 65,528 ratings — published 2001
![The Worldly Philosophers](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1463591845l/82120._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 1025 times as economics)
avg rating 4.16 — 8,317 ratings — published 1953
![23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1316738602l/8913542._SX50_.jpg)
by (shelved 1019 times as economics)
avg rating 3.96 — 11,672 ratings — published 2010
![Economics: The User's Guide](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1405300949l/20613671._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 992 times as economics)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,715 ratings — published 2014
![Human Action: A Treatise on Economics](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1606539886l/81912._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 912 times as economics)
avg rating 4.34 — 4,035 ratings — published 1940
![Free to Choose: A Personal Statement](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1661353748l/97820._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 857 times as economics)
avg rating 4.22 — 8,938 ratings — published 1979
![The Intelligent Investor](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1409602421l/106835._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 799 times as economics)
avg rating 4.25 — 133,197 ratings — published 1949
![Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1509179919l/36490332._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 769 times as economics)
avg rating 4.13 — 17,866 ratings — published 2013
![Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1546864718l/1117634._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 767 times as economics)
avg rating 4.10 — 6,613 ratings — published 1973
![Confessions of an Economic Hit Man](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1565872483l/2159._SX50_.jpg)
by (shelved 739 times as economics)
avg rating 3.87 — 37,622 ratings — published 2004
![Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1718913375l/325785._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 734 times as economics)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,428 ratings — published 1867
![Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1312041078l/1032019._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 721 times as economics)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,326 ratings — published 2007
![The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1571698158l/45731395._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 720 times as economics)
avg rating 4.04 — 8,498 ratings — published 2020
![The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1442191453l/1911._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 705 times as economics)
avg rating 3.69 — 101,966 ratings — published 2005
![Bullshit Jobs: A Theory](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1523865380l/34466958._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 682 times as economics)
avg rating 4.03 — 26,898 ratings — published 2018
![Das Kapital](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1388289025l/238953._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 682 times as economics)
avg rating 3.89 — 10,709 ratings — published 1867
![The Psychology of Money](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1581527774l/41881472._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 673 times as economics)
avg rating 4.31 — 199,939 ratings — published 2020
![Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1352422827l/13530973._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 664 times as economics)
avg rating 4.10 — 52,432 ratings — published 2012
![Globalization and its Discontents](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1348188598l/87661._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 661 times as economics)
avg rating 3.87 — 7,920 ratings — published 2002
![The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1386924633l/53981._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 648 times as economics)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,775 ratings — published 1944
![Economic Facts and Fallacies](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1322121883l/2064279._SX50_.jpg)
by (shelved 645 times as economics)
avg rating 4.24 — 5,515 ratings — published 2007
![Think Like a Freak](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1395610974l/17331349._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 637 times as economics)
avg rating 3.86 — 54,421 ratings — published 2014
![Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1544963815l/34890015._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 635 times as economics)
avg rating 4.36 — 186,146 ratings — published 2018
![Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1348714799l/134798._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 635 times as economics)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,762 ratings — published 1942
![The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1347460483l/5740446._SX50_.jpg)
by (shelved 625 times as economics)
avg rating 3.83 — 8,742 ratings — published 2008
![Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1426093936l/24724602._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 612 times as economics)
avg rating 4.14 — 85,003 ratings — published 2014
![Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1441544240l/6025160._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 603 times as economics)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,618 ratings — published 2009
![Rich Dad, Poor Dad](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1388211242l/69571._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 597 times as economics)
avg rating 4.11 — 634,662 ratings — published 1997
![Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1618785125l/40876575._SX50_.jpg)
by (shelved 580 times as economics)
avg rating 4.22 — 38,075 ratings — published 2014
![Dan Ariely](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1270639083i/788461._UY200_CR24,0,200,200_.jpg)
“To summarize, using money to motivate people can be a double-edged sword. For tasks that require cognitive ability, low to moderate performance-based incentives can help. But when the incentive level is very high, it can command too much attention and thereby distract the person’s mind with thoughts about the reward. This can create stress and ultimately reduce the level of performance.”
― The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home
― The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home
![Adam Smith](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1244624882i/14424._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”
― An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
― An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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