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Economics: Books

Library resources available to support the Department of Economics program

New Releases

The accidental equalizer: How luck determines pay after college

The two-parent privilege: How Americans stopped getting married and started falling behind

Billionaire, nerd, savior, king: Bill Gates and his quest to shape our world

The alternative: How to build a just economy

Contemporary Capitalism and Mental Health: Rhythms of Everyday Life

Fragile neighborhoods: Repairing American society, one zip code at a time.

The skill code: How to save human ability in an age of intelligent machines

Gray areas: How the way we work perpetuates racism and what we can do to fix it

How to think like an economist: Great economists who shaped the world and what they can teach us

Left Behind: A New Economics for Neglected Places

The road to freedom: Economics and the good society

Religious Influences on Economic Thinking: The Origins of Modern Economics

Side hustle safety net: How vulnerable workers survive precarious times

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Classics

The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek
Call Number: HD 82 .H38 1963
ISBN: 9780226320595
The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
Call Number: HC 106.5 .G32 1984
ISBN: 0395925002
Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
Call Number: HB 501 .F7
ISBN: 9780226264202
Also available as ebook
The Worldly Philosophers by Robert L. Heilbroner
Call Number: HB 76 .H4 1972
ISBN: 068486214X
Equality and Efficiency by Arthur M. Okun
Call Number: HB 90 .O38 1975
ISBN: 0815764758
Also available as ebook
Peddling Prosperity by Paul Krugman
Call Number: HB 99.7 .K77 1994
ISBN: 0393036022

Accessible Introductions

Freakonomics by Levitt and Dubner
Call Number: HB 74 .P8 L479 2005
ISBN: 9780060838249
Also available as ebook
Naked Economics by Charles Wheelan
Call Number: HB 171 .W54 2002
ISBN: 0393049825
Also available as audiobook
Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
Call Number: HB 171 .H445 1979
ISBN: 0517548232
Also available as audiobook
Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
Call Number: HB 171 .S713x
ISBN: 9780465060733
Also available as ebook and audiobook
The Armchair Economist by Steven Landsburg
Call Number: HM 35 .L36x 1995
ISBN: 0029177766

Economies Past, Present & Future

House of Debt by Atif Mian; Amir Sufi
ISBN: 9780226138640
Publication Date: 2014
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
Call Number: HB 501 .P43613 2014
ISBN: 9780674430006
Also available as ebook
Reinventing the Bazaar by John McMillan
Call Number: HB 501 .M554 2002
ISBN: 0393050211
Keynes Hayek by Nicholas Wapshott
Call Number: HB 95 .W25 2011
ISBN: 9780393077483

Behavioral Economics

Nudge by Thaler and Sunstein
Call Number: HB 74 .P8 T53 2008
ISBN: 9780300122237
Also available as audiobook
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
Call Number: BF 448 .A75x 2010
ISBN: 9780061353246
Also available as audiobook
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Call Number: BF 441 .K238 2011
ISBN: 9780374275631
Also available as audiobook

Growth & Development

The Price of Inequality by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Call Number: HC 110 .I5 S867 2012
ISBN: 9780393088694
Why Nations Fail by Acemoglu and Robinson
Call Number: HB 74 .P65 A28 2012
ISBN: 9780307719218
Also available as audiobook
Beating the Odds by Justin Yifu Lin; Célestin Monga
Call Number: HC 59.7 .L41858 2017
ISBN: 9780691176055

Career Preparation

Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett; Dave Evans
Call Number: HF 5381 .B7785 2016
ISBN: 9781101875322
Major Decisions by Henry J. Eyring
Call Number: LB 2343.3 .E97 2010
ISBN: 9781606416365
The Zookeeper's Secret by Jeffrey A. Thompson; J. Stuart Bunderson
Call Number: BV 4740 .T32522 2018
ISBN: 9781524403348
The 2-Hour Job Search by Steve Dalton
Call Number: HF 5382.7 .D35 2012
ISBN: 9781607741701
Also available as ebook