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Friday, 9 December 2016

Diane Coyle’s best economics books of 2016

Another end-of-year list, this time just looking at economics books: Manchester University Professor Diane Coyle gave Five Books her recommendation for the best economics books of 2016. Coyle says: “When I hear the critiques of economics I think, ‘But no! We do really interesting, insightful, real world studies! You just don’t know what it is that we’re really doing’” and this view has shaped her selection of the top five economics books for the year. Her list:

  1. The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War by Robert J. Gordon
  2. The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens by Samuel Bowles
  3. Capital without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent by Brooke Harrington
  4. The Inner Lives of Markets: How People Shape Them—And They Shape Us by Ray Fisman and Tim Sullivan
  5. Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms by David S. Evans and Richard Schmalensee

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