The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
The founding text of modern economics (public domain).
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How economies, incentives and institutions work, from classical economics to behavioural economics.
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
John Maynard Keynes
The basis of modern macroeconomic policy.
Economics in One Lesson
Henry Hazlitt
Seeing the unseen effects of policy.
Freakonomics
Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
Incentives revealed through surprising data.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
The two systems of thinking and common biases.
Nudge
Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein
Designing choices that help people decide better.
Poor Economics
Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo
Evidence on fighting poverty.
Why Nations Fail
Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson
Institutions as the root of prosperity.
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty
Long-run data on wealth and inequality.
India Unbound
Gurcharan Das
India's economic journey from independence to liberalisation.
Imagining India
Nandan Nilekani
Ideas that shaped and will shape modern India.
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