Tomorrow is the first meeting of my freshman seminar at Harvard. Here are the books we are reading this year:
- The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of
the Great Economic Thinkers, by Robert Heilbroner - Capitalism and Freedom, by Milton Friedman
- Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff, by Arthur Okun
- Moral Economics: From Prostitution to Organ
Sales, What Controversial Transactions Reveal About How Markets Work, by Alvin Roth - The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose
Bad Policies, by Bryan Caplan - How to Win a Trade War: An Optimistic Guide to an Anxious
Global Economy, by Soumaya Keynes and Chad P. Bown - How Economics Explains the World: A Short History of
Humanity, by Andrew Leigh
