100 Recommended Books
Alston, Lee J., Thrainn Eggertsson, and Douglass C. North (Eds.) (1996). Empirical Studies in Institutional Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Andersson, Åke E. and David Emanuel Andersson (Eds.) (2000). Gateways to the Global Economy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Andersson, Åke E. and David Emanuel Andersson (2006). The Economics of Experiences, the Arts and Entertainment. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Andersson, David Emanuel and Jessie P. H. Poon (Eds.) (2001). Asia-Pacific Transitions. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Andersson, David Emanuel (2008). Property Rights, Consumption and the Market Process. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Andersson, David Emanuel, Åke E. Andersson, and Charlotta Mellander (Eds.) (2011). Handbook of Creative Cities. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Barzel, Yoram (1989). Economic Analysis of Property Rights. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Berg, Andreas and Rolf Höijer (Eds.) (2008). Institutional Competition. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Buchanan, James M. (1991). The Economics and the Ethics of Constitutional Order. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press.
Buchanan, James M. and Gordon Tullock (1962). The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press.
Burczak, Theodore A. (2006). Socialism after Hayek. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press.
Chamlee-Wright, Emily (1997). The Cultural Foundations of Economic Development: Urban Female Entrepreneurship in Ghana. London: Routledge.
Coase, Ronald H. (1988). The Firm, the Market and the Law. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
De Soto, Hernando (2000). The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else. New York, NY: Basic Books.
Diamond, Jared (1999). Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York, NY: WW Norton & Co.
diZerega, Gus (2000). Persuasion, Power and Polity: A Theory of Democratic Self-Organization. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
Dolan, Edwin J. (Ed.) (1976). The Foundations of Modern Austrian Economics. Kansas City, MO: Sheed and Ward, Inc.
Dow, Sheila C. and Peter E. Earl (Eds.) (1999). Economic Organization and Economic Knowledge: Essays in Honour of Brian J. Loasby, Vol. I. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Dow, Sheila C. and Peter E. Earl (Eds.) (1999). Contingency, Complexity and the Theory of the Firm: Essays in Honour of Brian J. Loasby, Vol. II. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Earl, Peter E. (1983). The Economic Imagination: Towards a Behavioural Analysis of Choice. Brighton: Wheatsheaf Books.
Easterly, William (2006). The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good. New York, NY: Penguin Press.
Florida, Richard (2002). The Rise of the Creative Class. And How It’s Transforming Work, Leisure and Everyday Life. New York, NY: Basic Books.
Florida, Richard (2005). Cities and the Creative Class. London: Routledge.
Florida, Richard (2005). The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent. New York: HarperCollins.
Foldvary, Fred (1994). Public Goods and Private Communities: The Market Provision of Social Services. Brookfield, VT: Edward Elgar.
Foss, Nicolai J. and Brian J. Loasby (Eds.) (1998). Economic Organization, Capabilities and Co-ordination: Essays in Honour of G. B. Richardson. London: Routledge.
Fukuyama, Francis (1995). Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity. New York, NY: Free Press.
Fullbrook, Edward (Ed.) (2001). Intersubjectivity in Economics: Agents and Structures. London: Routledge.
Gigerenzer, Gerd (2007). Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious. New York, NY: Viking Press.
Gioia, Ted (1988). The Imperfect Art: Reflections on Jazz and Modern Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Gladwell, Malcolm (2000). The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. New York, NY: Little Brown.
Harper, David A. (1996). Entrepreneurship and the Market Process: An Enquiry into the Growth of Knowledge. London: Routledge.
Harper, David A. (2003). Foundations of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development. London: Routledge.
Harrison, Lawrence E. and Samuel P. Huntington (Eds.) (2001). Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress. New York: Basic Books.
Hayek, F.A. (1948). Individualism and Economic Order. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
Hayek, F. A. (1960). The Constitution of Liberty. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
Hayek, F. A. (1967). Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
Hayek, F. A. (1978). New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideas. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Hayek, F. A. (1979). Law, Legislation and Liberty: A new statement of the liberal principles of justice and political economy. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Hayek, F. A. (W.W. Bartley, III, Ed.) (1988). The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism. London: Routledge.
Hayek, F. A. (Stephen Kresge and Leif Wenar, Eds.) (1994). Hayek on Hayek: An Autobiographical Dialogue. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
Hodgson, Geoffrey M. (1999). Economics and Utopia: Why the Learning Economy Is Not the End of History. London: Routledge.
Hodgson, Geoffrey M. (2001). How Economics Forgot History: The Problem of Historical Specificity in Social Science. London: Routledge.
Inglehart, Ronald (1997). Modernization and Postmodernization: Cultural, Economic, and Political Change in 43 Societies. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Jacobs, Jane (1961). The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York, NY: Random House.
Jacobs, Jane (1969). The Economy of Cities. New York, NY: Random House.
Jacobs, Jane (1984). Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life. New York, NY: Random House.
Jacobs, Jane (1992). Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics. New York, NY: Random House.
Jacobs, Jane (2000). The Nature of Economies. New York: Random House.
Kasper, Wolfgang and Manfred E. Streit (1998). Institutional Economics: Social Order and Public Policy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Kirzner, Israel M. (1973). Competition and Entrepreneurship. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
Knight, Frank H. (1921). Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit. Boston, MA: Hart, Schaffner & Marx.
Koppl, Roger (2002). Big Players and the Economic Theory of Expectations. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Koppl, Roger (Ed.) (2003). Austrian Economics and Entrepreneurial Studies. Oxford: Elsevier Science.
Lachmann, Ludwig M. (1956). Capital and Its Structure. Kansas City, MO: Sheed, Andrews and McMeel.
Lachmann, Ludwig M. (1971). The Legacy of Max Weber. Berkeley, CA: The Glendessary Press.
Lavoie, Don (Ed.) (1991). Economics and Hermeneutics. New York, NY: Routledge.
Lavoie, Don and Emily Chamlee-Wright (2001). Culture and Enterprise: The Development, Representation and Morality of Business. New York, NY: Routledge.
Levine, Robert V. (1998). A Geography of Time: On Tempo, Culture, and the Pace of Life. New York, NY: Basic Books.
Lewin, Peter (1999). Capital in Disequilibrium: The role of capital in a changing world. London: Routledge.
Loasby, Brian J. (1989). The Mind and Method of the Economist: A Critical Appraisal of Major Economists in the 20th Century. Aldershot: Edward Elgar.
Loasby, Brian J. (1999). Knowledge, Institutions and Evolution in Economics. London: Routledge.
Maddison, Angus (1982). Phases of Capitalist Development. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Menger, Carl (1871). Principles of Economics (translated by J. Dingwall and B. F. Hoselitz, with an introduction by F. A. Hayek [1981]). New York, NY: New York University Press.
Mercuro, Nicholas and Steven G. Medema (1997). Economics and the Law: From Posner to Post-Modernism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
von Mises, Ludwig (1949). Human Action: A Treatise on Economics. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Mokyr, Joel (1993). The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Muller, Jerry Z. (1993). Adam Smith in His Time and Ours: Designing the Decent Society. New York, NY: The Free Press.
Muller, Jerry Z. (2002). The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Modern European Thought. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf.
North, Douglass C. (1990). Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
North, Douglass C. (2005). Understanding the Process of Economic Change. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Nozick, Robert (1974). Anarchy, State, and Utopia. New York, NY: Basic Books.
Nozick, Robert (1993). The Nature of Rationality. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Nozick, Robert (1997). Socratic Puzzles. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
O’Driscoll, Gerald P., Jr. and Mario J. Rizzo (1985/1996). The Economics of Time and Ignorance. London: Routledge.
Olson, Mancur L., Jr. (1982). The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Pejovich, Svetozar (2008). Law, Informal Rules and Economic Performance: The Case for Common Law. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Popper, Karl R. (1945). The Open Society and Its Enemies (2 volumes). London: Routledge.
Popper, Karl R. (1963). Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge. London: Routledge.
Postrel, Virginia (1998). The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress. New York, NY: The Free Press.
Postrel, Virginia (2003). The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness. New York: HarperCollins.
Potts, Jason (2000). The New Evolutionary Microeconomics: Complexity, Competence and Adaptive Behaviour. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Putnam, Robert D., Robert Leonardi, and Raffaella Nanetti (1993). Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Redding, S. Gordon (1995). The Spirit of Chinese Capitalism. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
Rosenberg, Nathan and L.E. Birdzell, Jr. (1987). How the West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World. New York, NY: Basic Books.
Rothbard, Murray N. (1962). Man, Economy, and State: A Treatise on Economic Principles. Princeton, NJ: D. van Nostrand Company.
Rowley, Charles K. (Ed.) (1993). Property Rights and the Limits of Democracy. Aldershot: Edward Elgar.
Rummel, R. J. (1994). Death by Government. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
Saxenian, Annalee (1994). Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Saxenian, Annalee (1999). Silicon Valley’s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs. San Francisco, CA: Public Policy Institute of California.
Schelling, Thomas C. (1978). Micromotives and Macrobehavior. New York, NY: Norton.
Schumpeter, Joseph A. (1934). The Theory of Economic Development: An Inquiry into Profits, Capital, Credit, Interest and the Business Cycle. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Sen, Amartya (1992). Inequality Reexamined. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Stark, Rodney and Roger Finke (2000). Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Storr, Virgil Henry (2004). Enterprising Slaves & Master Pirates: Understanding Economic Life in the Bahamas. Bern, CH: Peter Lang.
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas (2001). Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets. New York, NY: Random House.
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas (2007). The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. New York, NY: Random House.
Tu, Weiming (Ed.) (1996). Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Webster, Chris and Lawrence Wai-Chung Lai (2003). Property Rights, Planning and Markets: Managing Spontaneous Cities. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Whyte, William H. (1989). City: Rediscovering the Center. New York, NY: Doubleday.
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