Theory Books


When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital ManagementWhen Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
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The book is a thorough account on what happened at LTCM. Absolutely fantastic writing skills....
The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New WorldThe Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
Best Price: $10.75
Greenspan is smart and gives a good picture of how the U.S. economy works(and sometimes...
The Wealth of Nations (Bantam Classics)The Wealth of Nations (Bantam Classics)
Best Price: $4.75
Conquering Scarcity: (Smith's Dialectical Relationship to Marx?)? Adam Smith is certainly one...
Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary EditionCapitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition
Best Price: $11.16
Reading this book gave me a whole new perspective about life, economics and individual...
Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic EconomicsEconomics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
Best Price: $7.88
Economics in One Lesson was written by a journalist, not an economist. That said, it offers...


The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business Essentials)The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business Essentials)
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OK, I admit, some of it can be a bit boring, especially the first couple of chapters. But the...
Free to Choose: A Personal StatementFree to Choose: A Personal Statement
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This is absolutely the best book on basic economic thinking. It is filled with sound logical...
Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and CompetitorsCompetitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors
Best Price: $19.19
This is a great tool for people in the industry, graduate students, anyone wanting to climb the...
The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers [7th Edition]The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers [7th Edition]
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I read this book for a Microeconomics class that I took with Dr. Gertmenian at Pepperdine in...
The Complete TurtleTrader: The Legend, the Lessons, the ResultsThe Complete TurtleTrader: The Legend, the Lessons, the Results
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The book will be very interesting for readers who are new to trading literature and moderately...


The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek)The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek)
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Friedrich Hayek, the Nobel prize winning economist, wrote this brilliant classic as a critique...
The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to SustainabilityThe Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability
Best Price: $17.44
The Bridge at the Edge of the World, by James Gustave Speth, is begins with an excellent review...
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of EverythingFreakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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For those that don't know, the basic idea behind this book is that it applies economics to weird...
The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational WorldThe Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World
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Tim Harford's "Logic Of Life" has only one point to make, that is, every decision one...
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial RevolutionNatural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
Best Price: $10.64
I read Paul Hawken's book "The Ecology of Commerce" first. It was so good I decided to...

Pioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional InvestmentPioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment
Best Price: $8.48
David Swensen has written a commendable book. Perhaps most commendable is his focus on ethical...
Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday LifeThinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life
Best Price: $10.08
I read Thinking Strategically many years ago, when I was trying to develop an understanding of...
The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding GlobalizationThe Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization
Best Price: $3.95
Had some good ideas but pretty heavy reading. Not for the short attention span person.
The Great Crash 1929The Great Crash 1929
Best Price: $6.80
Galbraith does an excellent job in demonstrating how the private sector commercial bankers'...
Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? A Fast, Clear, and Fun Explanation of the Economics You Need For Success in Your Career, Business, and Investments (An Uncle Eric Book)Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? A Fast, Clear, and Fun Explanation of the Economics You Need For Success in Your Career, Business, and Investments (An Uncle Eric Book)
Best Price: $13.36
Using LinkedIn I've recently connected with a friend from twenty years ago. We've exchanged some...

The Road to SerfdomThe Road to Serfdom
Best Price: $18.17
Friedrich Hayek, the Nobel prize winning economist, wrote this brilliant classic as a critique...
Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior PerformanceCompetitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance
Best Price: $20.70
This classic work on competition is indicative of the importance of Michael Porter's pivotal...
Seeing What's Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry ChangeSeeing What's Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change
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The primary author's first two books were each sensational in their own way--.I was particularly...
New Ideas from Dead Economists: An Introduction to Modern Economic ThoughtNew Ideas from Dead Economists: An Introduction to Modern Economic Thought
Best Price: $5.76
Luckily, economics got that "dismal science" label a long time ago, because this book...
The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing: A Guide to Growing More Profitably (4th Edition) (Pie)The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing: A Guide to Growing More Profitably (4th Edition) (Pie)
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If you are an enterpreneur and you want to know how to price your product, don't look any...

The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere ElseThe Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
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This book reveals what needs to be done to bring the third world out of poverty. The everyday...
The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary EconomicsThe Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics
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Shermer attempts to synthesize a wide range of findings about how humans often behave in a...
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the TropicsThe Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics
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Easterly is a brilliant and talented writer, as one would expect from the World Bank. At times,...
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People MatteredSmall Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
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This book offers some excellent insights but lacks something that all big picture...
Capital Ideas EvolvingCapital Ideas Evolving
Best Price: $14.99
This was not an easy read, but it was worth it. I received my MBA in 1976. Much of this book...

Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for YourselfFree Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself
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I found this book inspirational in the sense that before the four-minute mile barrier for...
The Theory of the Leisure Class (Oxford World's Classics)The Theory of the Leisure Class (Oxford World's Classics)
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In his scathing The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen produced a landmark study of...
The Commanding Heights : The Battle for the World EconomyThe Commanding Heights : The Battle for the World Economy
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A book from Dr. L's class that help to shape my belief in freedom in the marketplace. A very...
Microeconomic TheoryMicroeconomic Theory
Best Price: $85.90
Mas-Colell is a great text to have on the shelf of any graduate student of econcomics. I am...
Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach (with Economic Applications Online, Econometrics Data Sets with Solutions Manual Web Site Printed Access Card)Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach (with Economic Applications Online, Econometrics Data Sets with Solutions Manual Web Site Printed Access Card)
Best Price: $78.00
simply sophisticated and sophisticately simple, did the trick but if you are completely new to...

Game Theory: Analysis of ConflictGame Theory: Analysis of Conflict
Best Price: $25.00
Even though Myerson asserts that this book is intended to be "a general introduction to...
THEORY OF MONEY AND CREDIT, THE (Lib Works Ludwig Von Mises PB)THEORY OF MONEY AND CREDIT, THE (Lib Works Ludwig Von Mises PB)
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The Theory of Money and Credit is the foundation of modern Austrian Economics. The central...
Microeconomic Analysis, 3rd EditionMicroeconomic Analysis, 3rd Edition
Best Price: $54.00
Hal Varian's MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS is a widely used textbook for graduate studies in economics....
The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and SocietiesThe Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies
Best Price: $18.45
In his latest book, "The Difference", Scott Page does a magnificent job of tackling...
Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don'tFreedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't
Best Price: $12.49
I'm all for countering claptrap like "Freakonomics" and I'm sure it's of value that...

The Real Price of Everything: Rediscovering the Six Classics of EconomicsThe Real Price of Everything: Rediscovering the Six Classics of Economics
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This is a complicated book because of its length and technical verbiage in economics. The...
Stabilizing an Unstable EconomyStabilizing an Unstable Economy
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“Mr. Minsky long argued markets were crisis prone. His 'moment' has...
The Theory of the Leisure Class (Dover Thrift Editions)The Theory of the Leisure Class (Dover Thrift Editions)
Best Price: $1.90
The basic premise of this book is that modern humans have inherited an instinct to compete with...
Forgive Us Our Debts: The Intergenerational Dangers of Fiscal IrresponsibilityForgive Us Our Debts: The Intergenerational Dangers of Fiscal Irresponsibility
Best Price: $11.80
Yarrow, a former NY Times journalist, with a masters in public policy from the Kennedy School at...
The Battle for the Soul of CapitalismThe Battle for the Soul of Capitalism
Best Price: $7.19
Loved the feel of this book and there is tons of great information here about the inner workings...

The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives (Economics, Cognition, and Society)The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives (Economics, Cognition, and Society)
Best Price: $13.95
I attended a seminar by McCloskey when she announced she was working on this then-upcoming book....
The Affluent SocietyThe Affluent Society
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A true classic that is as relevant to explaining today's society as that in which Galbraith...
The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as UsualThe Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual
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This book is a wake-up call for organizations that want to embrace the internet. It advocates...
One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic DemocracyOne Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy
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This book was published in 2000 as an up-to-date expose on the then-ascendant corporate bubble...
The Wealth of Nations: Books 1-3 (Penguin Classics)The Wealth of Nations: Books 1-3 (Penguin Classics)
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The first three "books" (the term for "chapters" in Smith's age) of the...

The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America's Economic FutureThe Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America's Economic Future
Best Price: $5.95
This is an absolutely incredible book. Anyone who is interested in the future of our Social...
The Wealth of Nations (Modern Library Classics)The Wealth of Nations (Modern Library Classics)
Best Price: $6.71
The Wealth of Nations is one of the most important books ever written. In some respects the...
On The Wealth of Nations (Books That Changed the World)On The Wealth of Nations (Books That Changed the World)
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With his acerbic tongue and sharp mind, P.J. O'Rourke handles the tough material of Adam Smith's...
Economics Explained: Everything You Need to Know About How the Economy Works and Where It's GoingEconomics Explained: Everything You Need to Know About How the Economy Works and Where It's Going
Best Price: $4.80
Successfully accomplishing what it set out to achieve, I must conclude this book is a triumph. ...
The Division of Labor in SocietyThe Division of Labor in Society
Best Price: $6.97
If you are a) an undergrad. in sociology, economy, or political science, you must have this for...

Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday LifeHidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life
Best Price: $5.15
I have to say I didn't read too much of this book before being turned off by it. I will give you...
    
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