Economics
Must Reads for Economics Students

Must Reads for Economics Students

Essential books and insights on international economics

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Want to better understand economics? Got some gaps in your knowledge you'd like to fill? With this collection, we'll examine different economic systems from capitalism thorugh to socialism and— plus look at how they've shaped our understanding of what our local and global economies should provide.

Must Reads for Economics Students

Essential books and insights on international economics

Freakonomics
Freakonomics
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
21 min4.3
The Black Swan
The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Impact of the Highly Improbable
18 min4.3
The Wealth of Nations
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
The most influential economic book of all time
11 min4.3
23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism
23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism
Ha-Joon Chang
Why capitalism is not what you think it is.
23 min3.8
Good Economics for Hard Times
Good Economics for Hard Times
Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
30 min4.0
Doughnut Economics
Doughnut Economics
Kate Raworth
Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
27 min4.0

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