A Reading List

Every few years, I teach (in addition to ec 10) a freshman seminar for about a dozen students. The seminar is essentially a book group for students who are taking introductory economics concurrently or who have advanced placement credit in economics.  Here is a list of this year's books:

1. The Worldly Philosophers, by Robert Heilbroner 
2. On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill
3. Capitalism and Freedom, by Milton Friedman
4. Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff, by Arthur Okun
5. The Economics of Inequality, by Thomas Piketty
6. Fair Play, by Steven Landsburg
7. Finance and the Good Society, by Robert Shiller
8. Scarcity, by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir
9. The Moral Economy, by Samuel Bowles
10. The Myth of the Rational Voter, by Bryan Caplan