Sample Reading List
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
- “A Capitalist Manifesto: Understanding the Market Economy and Defending Liberty” (2010), Gary Wolfram
- “We” (1921), Evgenii Zamyatin
- “Darkness at Noon” (1940), Arthur Koestler
- “A World Split Apart” — Commencement Address Delivered at Harvard University (1978), Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn
- “The Power of the Powerless” (1978) Vaclav Havel
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