I am in my final year of economics hons never really love economics but now I am preparing for master's in it ik it is a mistake that's why I want to build a interest in economics so suggest me some good and interesting economics related books
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Wealth of Nations is the og, for more recent stuff there’s Nudge, the Capital in the 21st century… The Big Short if you’re into finance.
Hey, I get where you’re coming from! Since you’re looking to spark interest, I’d suggest starting with the undercover economist by Tim Harford it’s insightful but super engaging. Freakonomics by Levitt and Dubner is another fun read that shows the quirky side of economics. Hope these help make the subject more enjoyable! 📒
*Debt: The first 5,000 years* by David Graeber
Capital by Marx (Volume 3 is incredibly important nowadays)
Social Systems by Niklas Luhmann
Stabilizing an Unstable Economy by Hyman Minsky
Would be where I would start and would prepare you very well for a Master’s. Keynes and Kalecki are also absolutely worth reading and engaging with.
Get some historical context for your field: The Worldly Philosophers by Heilbroner or Man’s Worldly Goods by Huberman. It’s broad field and I suggest you find some aspect that you do love if you hope to succeed.
Capital in the 21st Century, by Piketty. I have no economic training but I found the concepts pretty clear. And a much better book (and on the same topic) as Marx’s classic Das Kapital.
Also: second Debt, by David Graeber.
Neither should be taken without a grain or two of salt; neither author is omniscient or without flaws; but both are very thought-provoking. How lucky we are, to live in an age that contains both!
· *Toward the Modern Economy: Early Industry in Europe 1500-1800* by Myron P. Gutman.
· *The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848* by Eric Hobsbawm.
· *The Great Game: The Emergence of Wall Street as a World Power: 1653-2000* by John Steele Gordon.
· *Banking Panics of the Gilded Age* by Elmus Wicker.
· *Jay Cooke’s Gamble: The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873* by M. John Lubetkin.
· *Democracy in Desperation: The Depression of 1893* by Douglas Steeples and David O. Whitten.
· *The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market’s Perfect Storm* by Robert F. Bruner and Sean D. Carr.
· *The German Slump: Politics and Economics 1924–1936* by Harold James.
· *The Economic Recovery of Germany* by C.W. Guillebaud.
· *German Economic Policy* by William Bauer.
· *The World between the Wars, 1919-39: An Economist’s View* by Joseph S. Davis.
· *The Great Crash: 1929* by John Kenneth Galbraith.
· *The Complete Idiot’s Guide(R) to the Great Depression* by H. Paul Jeffers.
· *Rethinking the Great Depression* by Gene Smiley.
· *The New Deal* by Paul K. Conkin.
· *The German Economy at War* by Alan S. Milward.
· *All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis* by Bethany McLean and Joseph Nocera.
The Whiteness of Wealth – Dorothy A. Brown
The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy – Stephanie Kelton
Capital in the Twenty-First Century – Thomas Piketty
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
by Richard Thaler
All of these suggestions are nonfiction, so I’ll throw in a novel: THE MANDIBLES by Lionel Shriver, which follows a family over fifty years as the finances of the United States collapse under unsustainable levels of debt and plunges the world into a severe and lasting depression.