My Reading List

Tomorrow is the first meeting of my freshman seminar at Harvard. Here are the books we are reading this year:

• The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers, by Robert Heilbroner
• Capitalism and Freedom, by Milton Friedman
• Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff, by Arthur Okun
• Moral Economics: From Prostitution to Organ Sales, What Controversial Transactions Reveal About How Markets Work, by Alvin Roth
• The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies, by Bryan Caplan
• How to Win a Trade War: An Optimistic Guide to an Anxious Global Economy, by Soumaya Keynes and Chad P. Bown
• How Economics Explains the World: A Short History of Humanity, by Andrew Leigh