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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5896 times as economics)
avg rating 4.01 — 895,836 ratings — published 2005
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3207 times as economics)
avg rating 4.06 — 34,489 ratings — published 2013
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Paperback)
by (shelved 2705 times as economics)
avg rating 3.89 — 34,889 ratings — published 1776
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2513 times as economics)
avg rating 4.09 — 62,544 ratings — published 2012
Economics in One Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 2291 times as economics)
avg rating 4.16 — 21,519 ratings — published 1946
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2093 times as economics)
avg rating 4.21 — 26,743 ratings — published 2011
The Road to Serfdom (Paperback)
by (shelved 2035 times as economics)
avg rating 4.15 — 25,917 ratings — published 1944
Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1925 times as economics)
avg rating 4.37 — 14,285 ratings — published 2000
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1916 times as economics)
avg rating 4.27 — 24,342 ratings — published 2011
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1796 times as economics)
avg rating 4.17 — 585,396 ratings — published 2011
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1761 times as economics)
avg rating 4.00 — 134,258 ratings — published 2009
Capitalism and Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 1751 times as economics)
avg rating 3.90 — 15,129 ratings — published 1962
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 1661 times as economics)
avg rating 4.30 — 170,630 ratings — published 2010
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1649 times as economics)
avg rating 3.96 — 121,547 ratings — published 2007
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics (Paperback)
by (shelved 1497 times as economics)
avg rating 4.16 — 23,577 ratings — published 2016
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1462 times as economics)
avg rating 4.30 — 53,547 ratings — published 2007
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems (ebook)
by (shelved 1453 times as economics)
avg rating 4.22 — 14,726 ratings — published 2019
The Undercover Economist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1431 times as economics)
avg rating 3.81 — 29,471 ratings — published 2005
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1420 times as economics)
avg rating 3.90 — 30,664 ratings — published 2007
General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (Great Minds)
by (shelved 1400 times as economics)
avg rating 3.85 — 5,756 ratings — published 1935
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 1307 times as economics)
avg rating 3.84 — 94,515 ratings — published 2008
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1295 times as economics)
avg rating 4.12 — 130,946 ratings — published 2008
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 1262 times as economics)
avg rating 3.68 — 196,951 ratings — published 1848
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Paperback)
by (shelved 1260 times as economics)
avg rating 4.17 — 15,600 ratings — published 2017
Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 1259 times as economics)
avg rating 4.03 — 19,531 ratings — published 2002
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
by (shelved 1130 times as economics)
avg rating 4.08 — 71,185 ratings — published 2001
The Worldly Philosophers (Paperback)
by (shelved 1111 times as economics)
avg rating 4.16 — 8,940 ratings — published 1953
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1105 times as economics)
avg rating 3.96 — 12,624 ratings — published 2010
Economics: The User's Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1097 times as economics)
avg rating 4.16 — 8,524 ratings — published 2014
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1013 times as economics)
avg rating 4.34 — 4,265 ratings — published 1940
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 982 times as economics)
avg rating 4.02 — 9,921 ratings — published 2012
Free to Choose: A Personal Statement (Paperback)
by (shelved 924 times as economics)
avg rating 4.22 — 9,524 ratings — published 1979
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 920 times as economics)
avg rating 4.13 — 20,908 ratings — published 2013
The Intelligent Investor (Paperback)
by (shelved 892 times as economics)
avg rating 4.23 — 150,828 ratings — published 1949
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 855 times as economics)
avg rating 4.30 — 14,142 ratings — published 1887
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 845 times as economics)
avg rating 4.28 — 315,593 ratings — published 2020
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (Paperback)
by (shelved 828 times as economics)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,009 ratings — published 1973
The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 811 times as economics)
avg rating 4.03 — 9,834 ratings — published 2020
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 807 times as economics)
avg rating 3.87 — 39,527 ratings — published 2005
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 800 times as economics)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,727 ratings — published 2007
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 782 times as economics)
avg rating 4.02 — 34,007 ratings — published 2018
Economic Facts and Fallacies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 738 times as economics)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,245 ratings — published 2007
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 737 times as economics)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,315 ratings — published 1944
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 725 times as economics)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,500 ratings — published
Globalization and its Discontents (Paperback)
by (shelved 716 times as economics)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,186 ratings — published 2002
Das Kapital (Paperback)
by (shelved 711 times as economics)
avg rating 3.91 — 12,191 ratings — published 1867
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 711 times as economics)
avg rating 4.10 — 57,463 ratings — published 2012
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 690 times as economics)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,937 ratings — published 1942
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 673 times as economics)
avg rating 4.36 — 201,223 ratings — published 2018
The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 671 times as economics)
avg rating 3.83 — 8,893 ratings — published 2008
“One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John Green
If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.”
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If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.”
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“Freuchen tells how one day, after coming home hungry from an unsuccessful walrus-hunting expedition, he found one of the successful hunters dropping off several hundred pounds of meat. He thanked him profusely. The man objected indignantly:
... The refusal to calculate credits and debits can be found throughout the anthropological literature on egalitarian hunting societies. Rather than seeing himself as human because he could make economic calculations, the hunter insisted that being truly human meant refusing to make such calculations, refusing to measure or remember who had given what to whom, for the precise reason that doing so would inevitably create a world where we began "comparing power with power, measuring, calculating" and reducing each other to slaves or dogs through debt. It's not that he, like untold millions of similar egalitarian spirits throughout history, was unaware that humans have a propensity to calculate. If he wasn't aware of it, he could not have said what he did. Of course we have a propensity to calculate. We have all sorts of propensities. In any real-life situation, we have propensities that drive us in several different contradictory directions simultaneously. No one is more real than any other. The real question is which we take as the foundation of our humanity, and therefore, make the basis of our civilization.”
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
"Up in our country we are human!" said the hunter. "And since we are human we help each other. We don't like to hear anybody say thanks for that. What I get today you may get tomorrow. Up here we say that by gifts one makes slaves and by whips one makes dogs.
... The refusal to calculate credits and debits can be found throughout the anthropological literature on egalitarian hunting societies. Rather than seeing himself as human because he could make economic calculations, the hunter insisted that being truly human meant refusing to make such calculations, refusing to measure or remember who had given what to whom, for the precise reason that doing so would inevitably create a world where we began "comparing power with power, measuring, calculating" and reducing each other to slaves or dogs through debt. It's not that he, like untold millions of similar egalitarian spirits throughout history, was unaware that humans have a propensity to calculate. If he wasn't aware of it, he could not have said what he did. Of course we have a propensity to calculate. We have all sorts of propensities. In any real-life situation, we have propensities that drive us in several different contradictory directions simultaneously. No one is more real than any other. The real question is which we take as the foundation of our humanity, and therefore, make the basis of our civilization.”
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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economic, economics-and-finance, economics-finance, finance-and-economics, finance-econ, finance-economics, and finance-economy
