Here is Greg Mankiw’s list. Here is Arnold Kling’s list. And here is my list:
- The Rise of the Western World by Douglass North & Robert Paul Thomas
- Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy
- The Ascent of Money Niall Ferguson
- Discovery, Capitalism and Distributive Justice by Israel Kirzner
- A Farewell to Alms by Gregory Clark
- Dream Machines by Philip Mirowski
- Economics — Mathematical Politics or Science of Diminishing Returns? by Alexander Rosenberg
- Individualism and Economic Order by F. A. Hayek
- The Making of an Economist, Redux by David Colander
- The Elusive Quest for Growth by William Easterly
Which books would you choose?
[...] Greg Mankiw has a list and Arnold Kling has a list and now Greg Ransom has a list. [...]
Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt should definitely be on here
The following books would be my choice.
1. Economics in One Lesson, by Henry Hazlitt
2. What Has Government Done to Our Money?, by Murray Rothbard
3. The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, by Ludwig von Mises
4. Rise and Fall of Society, by Frank Chodorov
5. America’s Great Depression, by Murray Rothbard
6. The Price of Everything, by Russell Roberts
7. The Machinery of Freedom, by David Friedman
8. For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization, by Charles Adams
9. How Capitalism Saved America, by Thomas DiLorenzo
10. Meltdown, by Thomas Woods
Vangel,
Good choices. I particularly like the last three on your list.