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Books, articles, and essays for further reading
- Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism. — Robert J. Shiller.
- Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty — Banerjee, Abhijit Vinayak, and Esther Duflo.
- Habits, Addictions, and Traditions — Becker, Gary S
- Human Capital: A Theoretical Analysis with Special Reference to Education. — Becker, Gary S
- Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation — Bénabou, Roland, and Jean Tirole.
- Choices, Values, and Frames. — Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion. — Cialdini, Robert B.
- Asset Pricing — Cochrane, John H.
- Does the Stock Market Overreact? — De Bondt, Werner F. M., and Richard H. Thaler.
- The New Contrarian Investment Strategy. — Dreman, David N.
- A Theory of Fairness, Competition, and Cooperation. — Fehr, Ernst, and Klaus M. Schmidt.
- The Theory of Interest: As Determined by Impatience to Spend Income and Opportunity to Invest It. — Fisher, Irving.
- The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street. — Fox, Justin
- The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life. — Gneezy, Uri, and John A.
- The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel. — Graham, Benjamin.
- Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox — Gerd Gigerenzer and Reinhard Selten
- Rational Choice: The Contrast Between Economics and Psychology. — Hogarth, Robin M., and Melvin W.
- Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation. — Johnson, Steven.
- Thinking, Fast and Slow. — Kahneman, Daniel.
- Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster. — Krakauer, Jon.
- Supply and Demand: An Economist Goes to the Super Bowl — Krueger, Alan B.
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. — Kuhn, Thomas S.
- Contrarian Investment, Extrapolation, and Risk — Lakonishok, Josef, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert W. Vishny.
- More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws. — Lott, John R.
- When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management. — Lowenstein, Roger.
- A Random Walk Down Wall Street. — Malkiel, Burton Gordon.
- House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again — Mian, Atif, and Amir Sufi
- The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control. — Mischel, Walter.
- Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much. — Mullainathan, Sendhil.
- The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong. — Peter, Laurence J., and Raymond Hull.
- Do Firms Maximize? Evidence from Professional Football. — Romer, David.
- Risk and Uncertainty: A Fallacy of Large Numbers — Samuelson, Paul A.
- Irrational Exuberance. — Shiller, Robert J.
- The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don’t. — Silver, Nate.
- Models of Man, Social and Rational: Mathematical Essays on Rational Human Behavior in a Social Setting. — Simon, Herbert A.
- Bounded Rationality and Industrial Organization. — Spiegler, Ran.
- The Winner’s Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life. — Thaler, Richard H.
- Anomalies: The Ultimatum Game. — Thaler, Richard H.
- Anomalies: The Winner’s Curse — Thaler, Richard H.
- Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness. — Thaler, Richard H.
- A Parrot Passes the Marshmallow Test — Zielinski, Sarah.