Economics Book Summaries

Freakonomics

A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Fooled by Randomness

The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and the Markets

The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

An insider's account of imperialism in the modern age

Economic Facts and Fallacies

Uncovering popular fallacies in economics

Basic Economics

A Common Sense Guide to the Economy

MegaThreats

Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them

A Little History of Economics

A whistle-stop tour of the major questions posed by economists through the centuries, from Aristotle to Thomas Piketty

The Age of Cryptocurrency

How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order

Moneyland

Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How to Take It Back

The Economic Singularity

Artificial Intelligence and the Death of Capitalism

Two and Twenty

How the Masters of Private Equity Always Win

On Liberty

The iconic political text on how to balance authority, society and individuality

Life After Google

The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy

Debt

The First 5,000 Years

Talking to My Daughter About the Economy

A Brief History of Capitalism

The Misbehavior of Markets

A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward

The Four

The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google

On Saudi Arabia

Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines – and Future

From Silk to Silicon

The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives

Saving Capitalism

For the Many, Not the Few

The Myth of American Inequality

Phil Gramm, Robert Ekelund & John Early

The Myth of American Inequality

How Government Biases Policy Debate

Socialism

Michael Newman

Socialism

A Very Short Introduction

The Road to Serfdom

Van Hayek's classic text on Freedom

The Sum of Us

What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

The Fourth Industrial Revolution

A new transformation in technology and industry

Capitalism

James Fulcher

Capitalism

A Very Short Introduction

Angrynomics

How we can rearrange our economies to produce more equality and less anger

Economics for the Common Good

Delve into economics with a Nobel Prize winner