Joshua A. Price
Associate Professor of Economics
Department of Economics, Marketing, and Analytics
Leavitt School of Business
Southern Utah University
Reading List
Reading is a great way to ignore people in public and a better way to change the way you see the world around you. As I see the world through the lenses of an economist, some of these books may help you see the matrix as well. Reading is like taking the red pill. "You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I will show you how deep the rabbit hole goes."
- Morpheus
Economic Themed Books
Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science by Charles Wheelan
Freakonomics and Superfreakonomics, by Steven Leavitt and Stephen Dubner
The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health Wealth and Happiness, by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
Simpler: The Future of Government, by Cass Sunstein
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics, by Richard Thaler
Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates US, by Daniel Pink
The Undercover Economist, by Tim Harford
More Sex is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics, by Steven Landsburg
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, Liar's Poker, and Moneyball, by Michael Lewis
Blink, Outliers, Tipping Point, and David and Goliath, by Malcolm Gladwell
Economic Themed Podcats
Planet Money, by NPR
The Indicator, by NPR
Think like an Economist, by Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers
Revisionists History with Malcolm Gladwell
TED talks
Freakonomics with Steven Dubner and Steve Leavitt
Econ Talk
General Reading
Favorite Authors
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John Grisham
Ally Condie
Brandon Mull
Nicholas Sparks
Jack Weyland
Recommended Books
Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom
Love Your Enemies, Arthur C. Brooks
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
Foundation and Robot Series, Isaac Asimov
The Book of Mormon