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Economics

Classics

  • An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations / Adam Smith - HB161.S65 1998
  • Capital in the twenty-first century / Thomas Piketty ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer - HB501.P43613 2014
  • Capitalism and freedom / Milton Friedman ; with the assistance of Rose D. Friedman ; with a new preface by the author - HB501.F7 2002
  • Capitalism, socialism, and democracy / by Joseph A. Schumpeter - HX86.S33 1950
  • Das Kapital : a critique of political economy / Karl Marx ; edited by Frederich Engels ; condensed by Serge L. Levitsky - HB 501 .M36 1996
  • The affluent society / John Kenneth Galbraith - HC 106.5 .G32 1976
  • The fatal conceit : the errors of socialism / edited by W.W. Bartley III - HB171.H426 1989
  • The general theory of employment, interest, and money / John Maynard Keynes - HB99.7.K378 2008
  • The Great Transformation: the political and economic origins of our time / Karl Polanyi - HC53 .P763 2007
  • The new industrial state / John Kenneth Galbraith - HC106.5.G33 1978
  • The road to serfdom / by Friedrich A. Hayek - HD 82 .H38 1975
  • The theory of the leisure class / Thorstein Veblen ; introduction by Robert Lekachman - HB 831 .V4 1994

Economic Development, Globalization, Capitalism

  • Changing women's lives and work : an analysis of the impacts of eight microenterprise projects / Lucy E. Creevey - HQ 1240 .C75 1996
  • China goes global : the partial power / David Shambaugh - HF1604.S48 2013
  • Colossus : how the corporation changed America / [edited by] Jack Beatty - HD 2356 .U5 C65 2001
  • Contemporary Latin America : development and democracy beyond the Washington consensus / by Francisco Panizza - F1414.3.P36 2009
  • Deng Xiaoping and the transformation of China / Ezra F. Vogel - DS778.T39V64 2011
  • Determinants of economic growth : a cross-country empirical study / Robert J. Barro - HD 75 .B365 1998
  • Global capitalism : its fall and rise in the twentieth century / Jeffry A. Frieden - HF1359.F735 2006
  • Globalization and its discontents / Joseph E. Stiglitz - HF 1418.5 .S75 2002
  • Good capitalism, bad capitalism, and the economics of growth and prosperity / William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan, Carl J. Schramm - HB501.B372 2007
  • Great transformations : economic ideas and institutional change in the twentieth century / Mark Blyth - JC574.2.U6B59 2002
  • One economics, many recipes : globalization, institutions, and economic growth / Dani Rodrik - HF 1359 .R 62 2007
  • Poor economics : a radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty / Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo - HC59.7.B323 2011
  • The elusive quest for growth : economists' adventures and misadventures in the tropics / William Easterly - HC 59.72 .P6 E 17 2001
  • The globalization paradox : democracy and the future of the world economy / Dani Rodrik - HF1418.5.R6425 2011
  • The lever of riches : technological creativity and economic progress / Joel Mokyr - HC79.T4M648 1990
  • The mystery of capital : why capitalism triumphs in the West and fails everywhere else / Hernando de Soto - HB501.S778 2000
  • The political economy of Latin America : reflections on neoliberalism and development / Peter Kingstone - HC125.K48 2011
  • The post-development reader / edited by Majid Rahnema with Victoria Bawtree - GN448.2.P67 1997
  • The price of inequality : [how today's divided society endangers our future] / Joseph E. Stiglitz - HC110.I5S867 2012
  • The travels of a T-shirt in the global economy : an economist examines the markets, power, and politics of world trade / Pietra Rivoli - HD9969.S6R58 2009
  • The world is flat : a brief history of the twenty-first century / Thomas L. Friedman - HM 846 .F74 2005
  • Towards a social investment welfare state? : ideas, policies and challenges / edited by Nathalie Morel, Bruno Palier, and Joakim Palme - HN380.5.A8T69 2012
  • Why nations fail : the origins of power, prosperity, and poverty / Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson - HB74.P65A28 2012

Economic History and Institutional Economics

  • Banded together: economic democratization / Jeremy Brecher - HN17.5.B713 2011eb
  • Building a community-controlled economy : the Evangeline co-operative experience / Paul Wilkinson and Jack Quarter - HD3450.P7555 1996
  • Capturing the commons : devising institutions to manage the Maine lobster industry / James M. Acheson - HD9472.L63U52 2003
  • Connected : the surprising power of our social networks and how they shape our lives / Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler - HM741.C46 2009
  • Economic networks / David Knoke - HM741.K65 2012
  • For all the people : uncovering the hidden history of cooperation, cooperative movements, and communalism in America / John Curl - HD3444.C87 2012
  • Foundations of social capital / edited by Elinor Ostrom and T.K. Ahn - HM708.F68 2010
  • Governing the firm : workers' control in theory and practice / Gregory K. Dow - HD5650.D64 2003
  • History of economic thought : a critical perspective / E.K. Hunt and Mark Lautzenheiser ; [foreword by Robin Hahnel] - HB75.H77 2011
  • Humanizing the economy : co-operatives in the age of capital / John Restakis - HD2963.R47 2010
  • Institutions and the path to the modern economy : lessons from medieval trade / Avner Greif - HF395.G74 2006
  • Institutions, institutional change and economic performance / Douglass C. North - HB99.5
  • Making democracy work : civic traditions in modern Italy / Robert D. Putnam with Robert Leonardi and Raffaella Y. Nanetti - JN5477.R35 P866 1993
  • Prosperity and violence : the political economy of development / Robert H. Bates - HD82.B3257 2001
  • The drama of the commons / Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, Elinor Ostrom ... [et al.], editors - HD1286.D7 2002
  • The gifts of Athena : historical origins of the knowledge economy / Joel Mokyr - HC79.T4M646 2002
  • The invention of enterprise : entrepreneurship from ancient Mesopotamia to modern times / edited by David S. Landes, Joel Mokyr, & William J. Baumo - HB701.I58 2010
  • The logic of collective action : public goods and the theory of groups / Mancur Olson - HM131.O55 1977
  • The origin of wealth : evolution, complexity, and the radical remaking of economics / Eric D. Beinhocker - HD 82 .B395 2006
  • The ownership of enterprise / Henry Hansmann - HD 2785 .H32 1996
  • The penguin and the Leviathan : the triumph of cooperation over self-interest / Yochai Benkler - HD 2963 .B46 2011
  • Understanding institutional diversity / Elinor Ostrom - HF5549.5.M5O88 2005
  • Understanding the process of economic change / Douglass C. North - HB97.3.N67 2005