{"id":343,"date":"2025-06-23T10:45:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T14:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshuaingber.com\/?page_id=343"},"modified":"2025-06-23T10:47:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T14:47:40","slug":"suggested-reading","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/joshuaingber.com\/index.php\/suggested-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"READING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Often, students ask me for additional economics material to read. So here is a list of books and scholarship, in no particular order, that I found enlightening. This list is a work in progress and I have categorized these works into undergraduate and graduate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>Undergraduate<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Landsburg, Steven E. <em>The Armchair Economist: Economics and Everyday Life<\/em>. Revised and updated ed., Free Press, 2012.<\/li><li>Wheelan, Charles. <em>The Naked Economist: Undressing the Dismal Science<\/em>. Fully revised and updated ed., W. W. Norton &amp; Company, 2010.<\/li><li>Olson, Mancur. <em>The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities<\/em>. Yale University Press, 1982<\/li><li>Friedman, Milton. <em>Capitalism and Freedom<\/em>. 40th anniversary ed., University of Chicago Press, 2002.<\/li><li>Sowell, Thomas. <em>Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy<\/em>. 5th ed., Basic Books, 2014.<\/li><li>Calomiris, Charles W., and Stephen H. Haber. <em>Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit<\/em>. Princeton University Press, 2014.<\/li><li>Ferguson, Niall. <em>The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World<\/em>. Penguin Press, 2008.<\/li><li>Smith, Adam. <em>The Theory of Moral Sentiments<\/em>. Edited by Knud Haakonssen, Cambridge University Press, 2002.<em>(Originally published 1759)<\/em><\/li><li>Harford, Tim. <em>The Undercover Economist<\/em>. Oxford University Press, 2006.<\/li><li>White, Lawrence H. <em>The Clash of Economic Ideas: The Great Policy Debates and Experiments of the Last Hundred Years<\/em>. Cambridge University Press, 2012.<\/li><li>Koning, J. P. <em>Resistance Money<\/em>. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4>Graduate<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Sumner, Scott. <em>The Money Illusion: Market Monetarism, the Great Recession, and the Future of Monetary Policy<\/em>. Princeton University Press, 2021.<\/li><li>Snowdon, Brian, and Howard R. Vane. <em>Modern Macroeconomics: Its Origins, Development and Current State<\/em>. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005.<\/li><li>Hayek, Friedrich A. <em>The Constitution of Liberty<\/em>. University of Chicago Press, 1960.<\/li><li>Angrist, Joshua D., and J\u00f6rn-Steffen Pischke. <em>Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist&#8217;s Companion<\/em>. Princeton University Press, 2009.<\/li><li>Acemoglu, Daron, and James A. Robinson. <em>Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty<\/em>. Crown Business, 2012.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often, students ask me for additional economics material to read. So here is a list of books and scholarship, in no particular order, that I<a href=\"http:\/\/joshuaingber.com\/index.php\/suggested-reading\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshuaingber.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/343"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshuaingber.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshuaingber.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshuaingber.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshuaingber.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/joshuaingber.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"http:\/\/joshuaingber.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/343\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshuaingber.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}