Tepper School of Business
The Well-Read Economist
An informal survey of the Carnegie Mellon Economics and Finance Faculty resulted in the following list of books which individual faculty members consider insightful and readable in the fields of Economics and Finance.
|
Authors |
Title |
Recommender(s) |
Press |
Year of Publication |
| Gary Becker | Human Capital | Prof. Gaynor | University of Chicago Press |
1993 |
| Avinash Dixit and Barry Nalebuff | Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life | Prof. Spatt | W.W. Norton & Co. |
1991 |
| Darrel Duffie | Dynamic Asset Pricing Theory | Prof. Seppi | Princeton University Press |
2001 |
| William Easterly | The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics | Prof. McCallum | M.I.T. Press |
2002 |
| David D. Friedman | Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life | Prof. Goodfriend | HarperCollins |
1996 |
| Milton Friedman | Capitalism and Freedom | Profs. Ferreyra, Goldburg, Goodfriend, and McCallum | The University of Chicago Press |
1962 |
| Victor Fuchs | Who Should Live? | Prof. Gaynor | World Scientific Publishing Co. |
1998 |
| John Kenneth Galbraith | The Affluent Society | Profs. Goldburg and Keech | Houghton Mifflin |
1998 (40th Anniversary Edition) |
| Friedrich A. Hayek | Road to Serfdom | Prof. Keech | The University of Chicago Press |
1994 (Fiftieth Anniversary Edition) |
| Robert Heilbroner | The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers | Prof. Goldburg | Touchstone Press |
1995 (7th Edition) |
| Albert O. Hirschman | Exit, Voice and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States | Prof. Keech | Harvard University Press |
1970 |
| John Maynard Keynes | General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money | Prof. Ferreyra | Prometheus Books |
1936 |
| Lawrence Kotlikoff and Scott Burns | The Coming Generational Storm | Prof. Spatt | M.I.T. Press |
2004 |
| Steven Landsburg | Armchair Economist: Economics and Everyday Experience | Profs. Routledge and Goodfriend | Simon & Schuster |
1993 |
| Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner | Freakanomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything | Profs. Goldburg and Spatt | HarperCollins |
2005 |
| Burton Malkiel | A Random Walk Down Wall Street | Profs. Routledge and Spatt | W.W. Norton & Co. |
2003 (8th Edition) |
| Joel Mokyr | The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress | Prof. Goodfriend | Oxford University Press |
1998 |
| Douglass C. North and Robert Paul Thomas | The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History | Prof. Goodfriend | Cambridge University Press |
1973 |
| Mancur Olsen | The Logic of Collective Action: Public Good and the Theory of Groups | Prof. Keech | Harvard University Press |
1971 (2nd Edition) |
| Sherwin Rosen | Markets and Diversity | Prof. Spatt | Harvard University Press |
2004 |
| Thomas Schelling | Micromotives and Macrobehavior | Prof. Spatt | W.W. Norton & Co. |
1978 |
| Thomas Schelling | Strategy of Conflict | Prof. Keech | Harvard University Press |
1960 |
| Robert Schiller | Irrational Exuberance | Prof. Fong | Random House |
2000 (2nd Edition) |
| Joseph A. Schumpeter | Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy | Prof. Goldburg | HarperCollins |
1950 (3rd Edition) |
| Amartya Sen | Collective Choice and Social Welfare | Prof. Keech | North Holland Press |
1970 |
| Adam Smith | An Inquiry into the Nature and the Causes of the Wealth of Nations | Prof. Goldburg | Liberty Fund |
1776 (1981 Edition) |
| Richard H. Thaler | The Winner's Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life | Prof. Weber | Princeton University Press |
1992 |
| David Warsh | Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations: A Story of Economic Discovery | Prof. Keech | W.W. Norton & Co. |
2006 |
