 | The Wealth of Nations (Bantam Classics) by Adam Smith
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $5.04 The book that made economics a discipline. A timeless classic. Adam Smith is considered the father of Economics.
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 | Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (Great Minds) by David Ricardo
Buy new: $12.46 / Used from: $2.62 A comprehensive systematization of the thought of the Manchester school. Another timeless classic that dominated economics for 80 years.
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 | An Essay on the Principle of Population (Oxford World's Classics) by Thomas Malthus
Buy used from: $7.50 The book that explained for the first time why population control is necessary. Written 300 years ago, still revelvant.
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 | Value and Capital: An Inquiry into some Fundamental Principles of Economic Theory by J. R. Hicks
Buy new: $55.00 / Used from: $38.60 A classic systematization of Hicksian marginal utility theory.
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 | Capital: Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy (Penguin Classics) by Karl Marx
Buy new: $11.70 / Used from: $7.56 A towering inquiry that still rings true. The foundation for Marxist economics.
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 | Principles of Economics (Great Minds Series) by Alfred Marshall
Buy new: $9.34 / Used from: $4.33 With this book political economy came to be called economics and the foundation for marginal utility approach was laid.
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 | The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (Great Minds Series) by John Maynard Keynes
Buy new: $9.34 / Used from: $4.03 The book that inaugurated the fiscal approach to economic regulation.
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 | Quesnay's Tableau Economique by Francois Quesnay
Buy used from: $65.80 The bible of physiocracy, a major early school of thought that favored agriculture. Served as foundation for Leontieff's input-output theory.
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| Lectures on Political Economy by Knut Wicksell
Buy used from: $52.14 A classic of general equilibrium theory that also explained time as a factor in capital accumulation.
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 | Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy by Joseph A. Schumpeter
Buy used from: $4.99 Schumpeter's summarization framed the debate on which system to choose for 30 years.
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 | Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by E. F. Schumacher
Buy new: $10.79 / Used from: $7.39 An economic classic that is amenable to everyone. Argued against massive economies. Served as foundation for environment-friendly economics.
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| Elements of Pure Economics, or The Theory of Social Wealth by Leon Walras
Buy used from: $54.99 A classic systematization that also explained economic equilibrium.
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| Interregional and international trade (Harvard economic studies) by Bertil Gotthard Ohlin
The book that challenged Ricardo's theory of international-trade.
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| Economics of Imperfect Competition by Joan Robinson
Buy used from: $32.63 One of the earliest investigation of how imperfect competition effects the economy.
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| The Theory of Monopolistic Competition: A Re-orientation of the Theory of Value (Eighth Edition) by Edward Chamberlin
Buy used from: $54.75 A study of the effects of monopoly on supply, demand, etc.
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 | Economics: The Original 1948 Edition by Paul Samuelson
Buy new: $76.88 / Used from: $90.00 Samuelson is know for his contribution to fiscal theory. But for students, Economics since the last 50 years begins with Samuelson's textbook.
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| Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations by Gunnar Myrdal
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 | Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market (Wiley Investment Classics) by Walter Bagehot
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 | Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition by Milton Friedman
Buy new: $10.10 / Used from: $9.98 A monetarist approach to economic regulation and a modern re-statement of laissez faire.
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 | The Road to Serfdom: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition by F. A. Hayek
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 | The Age of Uncertainty by John Kenneth Galbraith
Buy used from: $0.01 The timeless and lucid history of economics and economy, political thought and politics and culture of consumption.
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| History of economic thought;: A critical account of the origin and development of the economic theories of the leading thinkers in the leading nations, (Social science text-books) by Lewis H Haney
The most comprehsive history of economic thought from ancient greece to World War II
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 | Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order (Library of Holocaust Testimonies) by Paul A. Baran
Buy new: $17.17 / Used from: $5.76 A classic marxist inquiry into how monopoly capitalism eliminates competition and consolidates power.
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 | Theory of Capitalist Development: Principles of Marxian Political Economy by Paul M. Sweezy
Buy new: $17.17 / Used from: $9.00 A classic Marxist re-explanation of the course taken by capitalism.
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| Input-Output Economics
Buy used from: $20.00 The book that explained how to track the impact of change in one segment of the economy on another.
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