Book Recommendations for Economics and Finance Majors

Book Recommendations for Economics Majors:
 
·      The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers by Robert L. Heilbroner
·      The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes by Zachary Carter
·      Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed
·      Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative by Jennifer Burns
·      Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction by Thomas K. McCraw
·      Inside the Economist's Mind: Conversations with Eminent Economists Edited by Paul A. Samuelson and William A. Barnett 
·      Lives of the Laureates, Fifth Edition: Twenty-three Nobel Economists by William Breit and Barry T. Hirsch 
·      The Rise and Fall of American Growth by Robert J. Gordon
·      A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy by Joel Mokyr
·      Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations: A Story of Economic Discovery by David Warsh
·      How Asia Works by Joe Studwell
·      The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past and Future of American Affluence by Robert J. Samuelson
·      This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff 
·      Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze 
·      The Map and the Territory 2.0: Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting by Alan Greenspan
·      The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan by Sebastian Mallaby 
·      What Went Wrong with Capitalism by Ruchir Sharma
·      The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street by Justin Fox
·      How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities by John Cassidy 
·      The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society by Binyamin Appelbaum
·      Advice and Dissent: Why America Suffers When Economics and Politics Collide by Alan Blinder
·      Global Capitalism by Jeffrey Frieden
·      An Extraordinary Time by Marc Levinson 
·      The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization by Richard Baldwin 
·      Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization by Harold James
 
 
Book Recommendations for Finance Majors:
 

• Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

• Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street

• Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation
• In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: The Stories, Voices, and Key Insights of the Pioneers Who Shaped the Way We Invest

• Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought

• An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets

• Trading at the Speed of Light: How Ultrafast Algorithms Are Transforming Financial Markets

• The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
• The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History
• Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street 
•  A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Best Investment Guide That Money Can Buy 
•  Stocks for the Long Run: The Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns & Long-Term Investment Strategies