Geoff Riley – UCAS and Economics – Summer 2013

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Recommended Reading for Economics / Management / PPE A selection of thirty books for enrichment and extension reading

1. 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism (Ha-Joon Chang), ISBN: 1846143284

2. Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure (Tim Harford) ISBN: 1408701529

3. Art of Strategy (Dixit and Nalebuff) ISBN: 978-0-393-06243-4 – especially good for Game Theory

4. Assumptions Economists Make: (Jonathan Schlefer), ISBN: 0674052269

5. Carbon Crunch: How We're Getting Climate Change Wrong (Dieter Helm), ISBN: 0300186592

6. Development as Freedom: (Amartya Sen): ISBN: 0192893300

7. End this Depression Now! (Paul Krugman) ISBN: 978-0393088779

8. Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction: (Ken Binmore) 978-0199218462

9. Grand Pursuit: The Story of the People Who Made Modern Economics (Sylvia Nasar) ISBN: 1841154563

10. How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities (John Cassidy) ISBN: 1846143004

11. Keynes – the Return of the Master (Skidelsky) ISBN: 184614258X

12. Made in Britain: How the nation earns its living: (Evan Davis) ISBN: 0349123780

13. Makers: The New Industrial Revolution, (Chris Anderson), ISBN: 184794065X

14. Paper Promises: Money, Debt and the New World Order (Philip Coggan) ISBN: 1846145104

15. Poor Economics: Rethinking Ways to Fight Global Poverty (Banerjee & Duflo) ISBN: 9781586487980

16. Positive Linking – Networks and Nudges (Paul Ormerod) ISBN: 0571279201 (forthcoming in 2012)

17. The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty (Dan Ariely) ISBN: 978-0062183590

18. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Michael Lewis) ISBN: 1846142571

19. The Body Economics, why Austerity Kills (David Stuckler & Sanjay Basu) ISBN: 1846147832

20. The Economics of Enough: (Diane Coyle) ISBN: 0691145180

21. The Idea of Justice (Amartya Sen): ISBN: 0141037857

22. The Plundered Planet: How to Reconcile Prosperity with Nature: (Paul Collier) ISBN: 1846142237

23. The Quest for Prosperity: How Developing Economies Can Take Off, (Justin Lin), ISBN: 0691155895

24. The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction (Nate Silver), ISBN: 1846147522

25. Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow: (Daniel Kahneman) ISBN: 1846140552

26. Tiger Head Snake Tails (Jonathan Fenby) ISBN: 1847394116

27. What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets (Michael Sandel) ISBN: 0241954487

28. When the Money Runs Out (Stephen D King) ISBN: 0300190522

29. Why Nations Fail: Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty (Acemoglu & Robinson) ISBN: 1846684307

30. Worldly Philosophers: Lives, Times, and Ideas of Great Economic Thinkers (Heilbroner) ISBN: 0140290060

Reading list last updated Thursday, June 20, 2013

The Enlightenment Economics blog written by Diane Coyle is excellent for keeping up to speed with the flow of new economics books that are being published at the moment: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/ Superb regular articles available from the Project Syndicate website: http://www.project-syndicate.org/ I post regular university and economics subject advice on my Twitter feed: @tutor2u_econ I also curate the Tutor2u economics blogs – available here: http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/economics/