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Tuesday, November 26, 2024

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
  • Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations: A Story of Economic Discovery by David Warsh 
  • The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics by William Easterly 
  • Fully Grown: Why a Stagnant Economy Is a Sign of Success by Dietrich Vollrath
  • Inside the Economist's Mind: Conversations with Eminent Economists Edited by Paul A. Samuelson and William A. Barnett  
  • Lives of the Laureates: Thirty-Two Nobel Economists (Seventh Edition) Edited by Roger W. Spencer & David A. Macpherson
  • 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
  • The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan by Sebastian Mallaby 
  • The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street by Justin Fox
  • The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society by Binyamin Appelbaum
  • How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities by John Cassidy
  • 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 
  • 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