Book List
**••##Freakanomics, & SuperFreakanomics Steven D. Levitt & Stephen Dubner
A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
**The Way the World Works: Jude Wanniski
Supply side, conservative perspective on economics. Heart of Reaganomics
**As the Future Catches You Juan Enriquez
Futuristic Look at Global Economics
**How Capitalism Saved America Thomas J. DiLorenzo
Look at role of government in stifling capitalism and economic growth.
**••##Fast Food Nation, and **##Reefer Madness, both by Eric Schlosser
Good material in general, won’t help for AP exam.
**••Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science, Wheelan
Some use this as a general econ text.
**••##Nickel and Dimed, and **••Bait and Switch, Barbara Ehrenreich political essayist & social critic.
**The Lexus and The Olive Tree, **Hot Flat & Crowded and **The World Is Flat, Thomas Friedman
Globalization guru takes on direction of global economy
**-Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life: David Friedman
Essential guide to rational living from the son of our nation’s most famous economist
**##-Predictably Irrational: Dan Ariely
Turns primary premise that consumers are rational on its’ head. Behavioral economics
**••##China Inc.: Ted C Fishman
The awakening of the Chinese economy
**##Undercover Economist-and **The Logic of Life, Tim Harford
Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor; Rational Economics in an Irrational World
**The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, Jeffrey D. Sachs
Detailed plan and challenge to wealthiest nations to end global poverty.
**Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet Jeffrey D. Sachs
Detailed plan of economic solutions for global overpopulation issues.
**Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty, Muhammad Yunus. Nobel
Prize micro-loan instigator
**Creating A World Without Poverty: Social Business & the Future of Capitalism Muhammad Yunus.
Advocates Social Business vs. profit as #1 capitalist goal
**Barron’s EZ-101 Study Keys Macro and Micro
I recommend serious students purchase. 1 page, 1 concept. A bit like Cliff Notes
**The Choice: A fable of International Trade, Russell Roberts
An attitude changer on the benefits of trade.
**•• Sex, Drugs, and Economics: Diane Coyle.
**Hard Heads, Soft Hearts, Alan Blinder
8 Issues we have faced as a nation for years, discussed intelligently.
**The Armchair Economist, Steven Landsburg
Some interesting and some times quite conservative views of life as interpreted by an economist.
**The Accidental Theorist, and **Fuzzy Math , both by Paul Krugman
A collection of his N Y Times articles. A look at Bush’s economic plan.
**-How to Think Like An Economist: Roger Arnold
Consists entirely of economics "stories" and real-world applications that the author has used in his class to
help hundreds of students make the connection between economics and their lives.
**-Are the Rich Necessary?: Hunter Lewis
Presents information in veiled neutral fashion but is actually advocating no to the above question.
Globalization and its Discontents, J Stiglitz
Highly criticized by other insiders of the World Bank and IMF. Macro.
**Travels of a t-shirt in a global economy: Pietra Rivoli
Follow this product from creation, use to disposal. Good look at how global economy works
##The age of Turbulence: Alan Greenspan
Chronological account of Greenspan’s adult years in politics & economics; Johnson - Bush
Thinking Strategically: Competitive Edge in Business
Nudge: Thaler and Sunshein Implementing Behavioral Economics as good public policy
••The Big Con:
Stumbling on Happiness, Daniel Gilbert Starts out Psychology and ends up behavioral economics, for kids who
like Psych.
Globalize It, by Brendan January This is a good follow up on Pollyannaish The Choice.
Thinking Strategically, A Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life, Dixit and Nalebuff
For those top-notch math students thinking about becoming engineers. Game Theory, but neither Micro nor Macro.
Supercapitalism, Robert Reich US consists of consumers, investors, and citizens. How modern capitalism
address these three.
New Ideas from Dead Economists, Todd Buchholz
A bit more light hearted than the next book, a look at the ideas, life and times various economists.
••-Our school library has a copy.
**-I have a copy. You may check it out from me.