Books that are classics, insightful or for fun:

Section I. Economics and Development Related

Section II. General and Good Fun

 

I. Economics and Development Related

"No Free Ride: From the Mean Streets to the Mainstream" by Kweisi Mfume

"The Wealth and Poverty of Nations" by David S. Landes

"The General Theory of Labor-Managed Market Economies" by Jaroslav Vanek

"Paying for Producitivity" edited by Alan Blinder

"The Political Economy of Socialism" by Branko Horvat

"Kaffir Boy" by Mark Mathabane

"The Strange Death of the Soviet Empire" by David Pryce-Jones

"Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey" by Isabel Fonseca

"The Heart that Bleeds" by Alma Guillermoprieto

"The Worldly Philosophers" by Robert Heilbroner

"Making Mondragon" by William F. Whyte and Kathleen King Whyte

"The Birth of Freedom: Shaping Lives and Societies in the New Eastern Europe" by Andrew Nagorski

"Employee Ownership in America" by Corey Rosen, Katherine J. Klein and Karen M. Young

"Economic Democracy" by Martin Carnoy and Derek Shearer

"What Do Unions Do?" by Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoff

"The Capitalist System" written and edited by Richard C. Edwards, Michael Reich and Thomas E. Weisskopf

"Economics Explained: Everything You Need to Know About How the Economy Works and Where It's Going" by Robert Heilbroner and Lester Thurow

"The Ownership Solution: Toward a Shared Capitalism for the 21st Century" by Jeff Gates

"The Labor-Managed Economy" by Jaroslav Vanek

"Privatization Surprises in Transition Economies" edited by Milica Uvalic and Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead

"The Challenge of Humanistic Economics" by Mark A. Lutz and Kenneth Lux
 
 

Section II: General and Good Fun


"Speaker for the Dead" by Orson Scott Card (a number of his books are a good  read).

"Timequake" by Kurt Vonnegut

"The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Exit 13: Oppression and Racism in Academia, University of Southern Mississippi" by Monte Piliawsky

"People of the Wolf" by W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear

"The Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco

"The Dispossessed" by Ursula K. Le Guin

"Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics" by "anonymous"

"Clan of the Cave Bear" by Jean M. Auel

"The Gulag Archipelago" by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

"M" by John Sack

"Russka" by Edward Rutherfurd

"The Reprieve" by Jean-Paul Sarte

"The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair

"Main Street" by Sinclair Lewis

"The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
 
 


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