![]() | Common Sense Economics: What Everyone Should Know About Wealth and Prosperity by James Gwartney
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $5.99 This book is a mixture of catechism and primer, and is the best one-volume introduction to macro- and micro-economics.
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![]() | The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason
Buy used from: $13.95 Personal finance. It presents itself as transcriptions of long lost clay tablets. Not so, but the information is quite helpful.
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![]() | The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness by Dave Ramsey
Buy new: $14.61 / Used from: $10.95 This book's strength is its aggressive debt-reduction plan.
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![]() | The Millionaire Mind by Thomas J. Stanley
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $3.98 Prosperity is a mindset that can be learned. Rich people are rich because of the choices they make.
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![]() | The Motley Fool You Have More Than You Think : The Foolish Guide To Personal Finance by David Gardner
Buy used from: $2.92 This book gets you thinking about you assets and comparative advantage.
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![]() | The Five Lessons a Millionaire Taught Me About Life and Wealth by Richard Paul Evans
Buy new: $11.51 / Used from: $1.90 This is by the guy who wrote the Christmas Box. This is not a good stand-alone book, but it works well in context with other books.
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![]() | Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money--That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! by Robert T. Kiyosaki
Buy new: $11.02 / Used from: $0.50 Another book about wealthy mentors.
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![]() | Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics by Henry Hazlitt
Buy new: $9.86 / Used from: $6.38 Now we come to macro-economics. This book untangles the traffic jam of Wall Street, and most of the Washingtonian nonsense.
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![]() | Basic Economics 3rd Ed: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy by Thomas Sowell
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $14.58 This was written for college students and home-schooled kids. It is the best introductory book on the subject.
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![]() | Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One by Thomas Sowell
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $3.82 A coda to the above book.
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![]() | Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal by Ayn Rand
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $4.99 Good essays on free markets, with a coherent philosophy.
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![]() | Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt
Buy new: $14.48 / Used from: $5.00 Economist Steven Levitts best-selling book Freakonomics is not really about economics. It is about applying systematic reasoning to all sorts of social problems. Systematic reasoning is needed even more than economics.
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![]() | Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't by John R. Lott Jr.
Buy new: $11.18 / Used from: $5.19 A response to Freakonomics.
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![]() | Nicomachean Ethics (Dover Thrift Editions) by Aristotle
Buy new: $3.50 / Used from: $0.01 Now to the theory section. Although Aristotle primarily discusses ethics, he does touch upon free enterprise.
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![]() | Politics (Dover Thrift Editions) by Aristotle
Buy new: $5.00 / Used from: $1.91 Aristotle saw this book as a continuation of his treatise on Ethics. Book 2 has a refutation of Socrates's and Plato's communalism, how it disincentivises prosperity.
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![]() | The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Philosophical Classics) by Adam Smith
Buy new: $8.77 / Used from: $7.21 Adam Smith's first book, the basis for his more famous second.
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![]() | The Wealth of Nations (Bantam Classics) by Adam Smith
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $4.94 Please read this book before you criticize it. Slow, methodical, and lacking any of Marx's junk science, this book has a common-sense ring of truth.
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![]() | The Declaration of Independence and Other Great Documents of American History 1775-1865 (Dover Thrift Editions)
Buy new: $2.00 / Used from: $0.01 Read The Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights.
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![]() | The Law by Frederick Bastiat
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $24.74 This is the financial brother to the Declaration of Independence.
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![]() | The Federalist Papers (Penguin Classics) by Alexander Hamilton
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.95 The United States was to be a "commercial people" Federalist 24.
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