An Economics Reading List

Inequality and Discrimination

Becker, Gary, The Economics of Discrimination

Easterlin, Richard, Birth and Fortune

Easterlin, Richard, Growth Triumphant: The 21st Century in Historical Perspective

Freeman, Richard, The New Inequality: Creating Opportunities for America’s Poor

Goldin, Claudia, Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women

Higgs, Robert, Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American Economy, 1865-1914

Sowell, Thomas, Race and Economics