Sample Reading List

Sample Reading List

 Fall 2019:

•  “What is Socialism and Why is it Important in America? Exploring Socialism from Karl Marx to Bernie Sanders” Ryan Rogers (2018) and “Debunking Utopia: Exposing the Myth of Nordic Socialism” by Nima Sanandaji (2016)
• “Communist Manifesto” Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (1848)
•  “The Problem with Socialism” by Thomas Dilorenzo (2016)
• “Pictures of a Socialistic Future” by Eugen Richter (1983)
•  “We” Evgenii Zamyatin (1924)
• “Darkness at Noon” Arthur Koestler (1940)
•  “Anthem” Ayn Rand (1961)
• “The Lucky One” Anna Hammond (2017)

 

Fall 2018:

• “Manifesto of the Communist Party” (1848), Karl Marx and Frederick Engels 
• “Emergence: The connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software” (Chapters 1-2) Steven Johnson (2001)
• “The Use of Knowledge in Society” F. A. HayeK (1945)
• “I, Pencil” Leonard E. Read (1958)
• “New Perspectives on Emergence in Economics” David A. Harper (2012)
• “Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand” Emma Rothchild (1994)
• “The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism” (1988),  The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek 
• “Capitalism and Freedom” (1962), Milton Friedman 
• “We” (1921), Evgenii Zamyatin 
• “Darkness at Noon” (1940), Arthur Koestler  
• “A World Split Apart” — Commencement Address Delivered at Harvard University (1978),  Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn 

 Spring 2018:

• “The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality”  Angus Deaton  
• “Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty” D. Acemoglu and J. Robinson
• “1984”  George Orwell 
• “How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes” Peter G. Schiff
• “Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness”  Richard Thaler
• “The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism”  Arun Sundararajan
• “The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else” Hernando De Soto
• "Trickle Down Theory" and "Tax Cuts for the Rich" Thomas Sowell

 

Fall 2017:

• “Small Acts of Leadership: 12 Intentional Behaviors That Lead to Big Impact” G. Shawn Hunter
• “The Levity Effect: Why it Pays to Lighten Up” Adrian Gostick and Scott Christopher
• “Animal Farm” George Orwell
• “The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done” Peter F. Drucker and Jim Collins
• "How to Win Friends & Influence People” Dale Carnegie
• “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?” Seth Godin
• “Economics in One Lesson” Henry Hazlitt
• “The 48 Laws of Power” Greene Robert