Books

 

General Education and Policy Issues:

Friedman, David.  Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life. New York: HarperBusiness, 1996. 

Friedman, Milton.  Capitalism and Freedom. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962. 

Friedman, Milton.  Free to Choose. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980. 

Friedman, Thomas.  The Lexus and the Olive Tree.  Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000.

Hazlitt, Henry.  Economics in One Lesson. New York: Crown Publishers, 1979.

Henderson, David. The Joy of Freedom: An Economist's Odyssey. New York: Prentice Hall, 2002. 

Landsburg, Steven E.  The Armchair Economist: Economics and Everyday Life, New York: The Free Press, 1993. 

Landsburg, Steven E.  Fair Play: What Your Child Can Teach You About Economics, New York: The Free Press, 1997. 

Sowell, Thomas.  Basic Economics: A Citizen’s Guide to the Economy. New York: Basic Books, 2001. 

Sowell, Thomas.  The Vision of the Anointed, New York: Basic Books, 1995.

Stigler, George.  The Citizen and the State.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975

Stigler, George.  The Economist as Preacher.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982

Stigler, George.  The Intellectual and the Marketplace. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984

Stigler, George.  The Theory of Price. New York: Macmillan, 1942. (Textbook with various editions) 

Economic History:

Atack, Jeremy and Peter Passell.  A New Economic View of American History, 2nd edition. New York:  W.W. Norton and Company, 1979.

Fogel, Robert.  Railroads and American Economic Growth. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1964.

Fogel, Robert and Stanley Engerman.  Time on the Cross.  Boston: Little Brown, 1974.

Hayek, F.A.  Capitalism and the Historians. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1954.

Landes, David S.  The Wealth and Poverty of Nations. New York: Norton, 1993.

Stigler, George.  Essays in Economic History.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965

Yergin, Daniel and Joseph Stanislaw.  The Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Government and the Marketplace That Is Remaking the Modern World. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998.

Biography

Friedman, Milton.  Two Lucky People.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Sowell, Thomas.  A Personal Odyssey.  New York: Free Press, 2000.

Stigler, George.  Memoirs of an Unregulated Economist. New York: Basic Books, 1988.

Fiction:

Jevons, Marshall.  Murder at the Margin. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.

Roberts, Russell.  The Choice.  Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001.

Roberts, Russell.  The Invisible Heart: An Economic Romance.  Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001.