An Economics Reading List

Nobel Laureates

Becker, Gary, Accounting for Tastes

Becker, Gary, The Economic Approach to Human Behavior

Becker, Gary, The Economics of Discrimination

Becker, Gary, Guity Nashat Becker, The Economics of Life : From Baseball to Affirmative Action to Immigration, How Real-World Issues Affect Our Everyday Life

Becker, Gary, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis

Becker, Gary, The Essence of Becker

Buchanan, James M., The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan

• Including, along with other works:
• The Calculus of Consent (with Gordon Tullock)
• The Reason of Rules (with Geoffrey Brennan)
• Cost and Choice: An Inquiry in Economic Theory
• Democracy in Deficit: The Political Legacy of Lord Keynes (with Richard Wagner)
• The Limits of Liberty: Between Anarchy and Leviathan

Coase, Ronald, Essays on Economics and Economists

Coase, Ronald, The Firm, the Market and the Law

Fogel, Robert, Railroads and American Economic Growth

Fogel, Robert and Stanley Engerman, Time On the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery

Fogel, Robert, Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery

Friedman, Milton & Anna Schwartz, A Monetary History of the United States

Friedman, Milton, Free to Choose

Friedman, Milton, Capitalism and Freedom

Friedman, Milton, Essays in Positive Economics

Friedman, Milton, Price Theory

Hicks, John, Capital and Growth

Hayek, Friedrich, Individualism and Economic Order

Hayek, Friedrich, Monetary Theory and the Trade Cycle

Hayek, Friedrich, The Road to Serfdom

Hayek, Friedrich, The Constitution of Liberty

Hayek, Friedrich, Studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Kuznets, Simon, Economic change; selected essays in business cycles, national income, and economic growth

Kuznets, Simon, Modern Economic Growth: Rate, Structure and Spread

Lucas, Robert, Studies in Business Cycle Theory

Lucas, Robert, Models of Business Cycles

Mundell, Robert, International Economics

North, Douglass and Robert Paul Thomas, The Rise of the Western World

North, Douglass, Structure and Change in Economic History

North, Douglass, Economic Growth of the United States, 1790-1860

North, Douglass, Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance

Sen, Amartya, On Ethics and Economics

Stigler, George, The Theory of Price

Stigler, George, The Essence of Stigler

Stigler, George, The Economist as Preacher and Other Essays