Ten Really Good Books

by Don Boudreaux on May 2, 2007

in Books, Economics

My latest column in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review discusses ten of my favorite economics books, aimed at a general audience, written in the 20th century.

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  • Jason

    No Thomas Sowell?

  • Matt

    Invisible Heart without Sowell?

  • Agreed, while Hazlitt is great, Basic Economics by Sowell is a rock-solid classic imho, his follow-up is great too.

  • Andrew

    The Thomas Sowell books (Basic Economics and Applied Economics) taught me the importance of economic reasoning and the obvious in hindsight ways they apply to policy decisions. I would have liked to see them get som publicity.

  • Sean

    5th-ing Sowell, especially Basic Economics.

  • Python

    6th-ing Sowell.

  • Maybe this confirms my fringe like belief that Sowell is too mainstream for the Boudreaux's and Cowen's of the noveau pop world of econblogs.

  • Henri Hein

    What did you think of "The Undercover Economist?" Tyler Cowen calls it "one of the very best introductions to the economic way of thinking." (http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevol...>

  • cpurick

    I turned to the list expecting Sowell as well.


    Are you going to tell me Basic Economics isn't better than any of those books???

  • Matt

    The market has spoken! The list must be amended!

  • Henri:


    I think it's a typepad thing. I've seen amazon links disappear rather quickly elsewhere on typepad based sites. Although I'm sure it's not only typepad, that's just what I've noticed.


    Stealing bandwidth I suppose.

  • masinn
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