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THE PRICE OF CIVILIZATION
By Jeffrey D. Sachs (jeffsachs.org)
Random House, 336 pages
Everything has a cost. The author describes why our current economic model needs to be reformed in order to survive.
A CONCISE GUIDE TO MACRO ECONOMICS
By David A. Moss
Harvard Business Review Press, 224 pages
The only book you will ever need to understand the basics of macroeconomics. Easy to understand.
WHAT MONEY CAN'T BUY
By Michael J. Sandel
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 256 pages
The title says it all. Great book to help you reset your focus away from pure consumerism.
THE BLACK SWAN
By Nassim Nicholas Taleb (fooledbyrandomness.com)
Random House, 444 pages
A classic. The author shows how we refuse to accept how random events impact on our world.
CAPITAL IN THE 21st CENTURY
By Thomas Piketty (piketty.pse.ens.fr/en/)
Belknap Press, 816 pages
This isn’t Das Capital circa 1887. But the author takes aim at the world’s growing wealth and prosperity divide.
THE GLOBAL MINOTAUR
By Yanis Varoufakis (yanisvaroufakis.eu)
Zed Books, 304 pages
We’ve all heard about the Greek economic crisis. In this book, the author offers one perspective and unique prescriptions.
WEALTH, POVERTY AND POLITICS
By Thomas Sowell (tsowell.com)
Basic Books, 576 pages
A supply-side view of the numerous factors that affect income inequality and wealth creation. A great read.
WHO GETS WHAT - AND WHY
By Alvin E. Roth (marketdesigner.blogspot.com)
Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin, 272 pages
A relevant treatise on the way market economics guides our decisions, from education, to dating, to employment.
THE RESPONSIBLE COMPANY
By Yvon Chouinard and Vincent Stanley
Patagonia Books, 160 pages
The founder of Patagonia and a longtime employee show that profit and social responsibility don’t have to be mutually exclusive.
MISBEHAVING
By Richard H. Thaler (misbehavingbook.org)
W.W. Norton & Company, 432 pages
Traditional economics assumes humans are rational actors. This book shows the fallacy of this view.
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