Happy New Year to the entire GSE community! I’m sure that I am not the only one with a resolution to read more books, so I thought I would try to help. Since few people fell in love with economics through graduate textbooks, here are some recreational economic reads to look forward to in 2014.
Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit by Charles W. Calomiris and Stephen H. Haber
GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History by Diane Coyle
The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor by William Easterly
Think Like a Freak by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century (America in the World) by Jürgen Osterhammel
In 100 Years: Leading Economists Predict the Future edited by Ignacio Palacios-huerta
The Dollar Trap: How the U.S. Dollar Tightened Its Grip on Global Finance by Eswar S. Prasad
I hope you learn more in 2014 than in any prior year. Happy New Year!
Hat tip: Diane Coyle