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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 374 times as economy)
avg rating 4.01 — 908,089 ratings — published 2005
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 301 times as economy)
avg rating 4.06 — 35,231 ratings — published 2013
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 271 times as economy)
avg rating 4.08 — 66,223 ratings — published 2012
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Paperback)
by (shelved 256 times as economy)
avg rating 3.89 — 35,949 ratings — published 1776
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 193 times as economy)
avg rating 4.14 — 22,035 ratings — published 2013
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money—That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! (Paperback)
by (shelved 188 times as economy)
avg rating 4.09 — 752,891 ratings — published 1997
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 185 times as economy)
avg rating 4.21 — 28,079 ratings — published 2011
The Intelligent Investor (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as economy)
avg rating 4.23 — 156,321 ratings — published 1949
Economics in One Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as economy)
avg rating 4.16 — 22,027 ratings — published 1946
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as economy)
avg rating 4.27 — 353,825 ratings — published 2020
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as economy)
avg rating 4.31 — 173,997 ratings — published 2010
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as economy)
avg rating 4.30 — 55,763 ratings — published 2007
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as economy)
avg rating 3.96 — 124,228 ratings — published 2007
The Road to Serfdom (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as economy)
avg rating 4.14 — 26,639 ratings — published 1944
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as economy)
avg rating 4.16 — 16,148 ratings — published 2017
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 126 times as economy)
avg rating 4.27 — 25,011 ratings — published 2011
Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as economy)
avg rating 4.37 — 14,806 ratings — published 2000
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems (ebook)
by (shelved 117 times as economy)
avg rating 4.22 — 15,116 ratings — published 2019
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as economy)
avg rating 4.17 — 609,626 ratings — published 2011
Capitalism and Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as economy)
avg rating 3.90 — 15,549 ratings — published 1962
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as economy)
avg rating 3.90 — 31,355 ratings — published 2007
The Richest Man in Babylon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as economy)
avg rating 4.23 — 251,023 ratings — published 1926
The Undercover Economist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as economy)
avg rating 3.81 — 29,947 ratings — published 2005
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as economy)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,293 ratings — published 2021
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as economy)
avg rating 4.16 — 24,202 ratings — published 2016
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as economy)
avg rating 4.00 — 135,016 ratings — published 2009
Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as economy)
avg rating 4.03 — 19,854 ratings — published 2002
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as economy)
avg rating 3.88 — 40,299 ratings — published 2005
General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (Great Minds)
by (shelved 87 times as economy)
avg rating 3.85 — 5,852 ratings — published 1935
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as economy)
avg rating 3.69 — 206,852 ratings — published 1848
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as economy)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,035 ratings — published 2012
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as economy)
avg rating 3.96 — 12,877 ratings — published 2010
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as economy)
avg rating 4.01 — 36,460 ratings — published 2018
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as economy)
avg rating 4.02 — 11,311 ratings — published 2023
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as economy)
avg rating 4.21 — 43,269 ratings — published 2009
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
by (shelved 78 times as economy)
avg rating 4.08 — 72,942 ratings — published 2001
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as economy)
avg rating 4.30 — 14,881 ratings — published 1867
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as economy)
avg rating 3.84 — 96,427 ratings — published 2008
Economics: The User's Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as economy)
avg rating 4.16 — 8,764 ratings — published 2014
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as economy)
avg rating 4.34 — 4,356 ratings — published 1940
How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as economy)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,409 ratings — published 2010
The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as economy)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,124 ratings — published 2020
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as economy)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,860 ratings — published 2007
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as economy)
avg rating 4.14 — 414,251 ratings — published 2014
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as economy)
avg rating 4.35 — 205,649 ratings — published 2018
Capital and Ideology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as economy)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,189 ratings — published 2019
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 61 times as economy)
avg rating 4.21 — 44,357 ratings — published 2014
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as economy)
avg rating 4.16 — 44,640 ratings — published 2009
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as economy)
avg rating 4.50 — 9,804 ratings — published 2020
The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as economy)
avg rating 4.16 — 14,987 ratings — published 2018
“One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the economy has led to the creation of new economies and the expansion of some old ones – I have already mentioned the drug trade and the market for sexual services. At the same time, though, there are any number of communities that more than welcome prisons as a source of employment. Communities even compete with one another to be the site where new prisons will be constructed because prisons create a significant number of relatively good jobs for their residents”
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