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Books, articles, and essays for further reading
- Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government. — Achen, Christopher H., and Larry M. Bartels.
- Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture. — Aiden, Erez, and Jean-Baptiste Michel.
- Identity Economics: How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and Well-Being. — Akerlof, George A., and Rachel Kranton.
- Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism. — Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism.
- Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception. — Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism.
- Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism — Anderson, Benedict.
- Uncertain Futures: Imaginaries, Narratives and Calculation in the Economy. — Beckert, Jens, and Richard Bronk.
- Contagious: Why Things Catch On. — Berger, Jonah.
- Storytelling Sociology: Narrative as Social Inquiry — Berger, Ronald J., and Richard Quinney
- The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath. — Bernanke, Ben S.
- The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. — Bettelheim, Bruno.
- Why Wages Don’t Fall in a Recession. — Bewley, Truman.
- Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs? America’s Debate over Technological Unemployment. — Bix, Amy Sue.
- The Quiet Revolution: Central Banking Goes Modern. — Blinder, Alan.
- Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea. — Blyth, Mark.
- The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories. — Booker, Christopher.
- Witches and Neighbors: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft. — Briggs, Robin.
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces. — Campbell, Joseph.
- Adventure, Mystery, Romance: Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture. — Cawelti, John G.
- Rational Ritual: Culture, Coordination and Common Knowledge. — Chwe, Michael Suk-Young.
- Market Madness: A Century of Oil Panics, Crises, and Crashes. — Clayton, Blake C.
- The Origins of the Keynesian Revolution: The Development of Keynes’s Theory of Employment and Output. — Dimand, Robert W
- Golden Fetters, The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919–1939. — Eichengreen, Barry.
- Macroeconomics of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies. — Farmer, Roger E. A.
- A Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth. — Field, Alexander J.
- The Money Illusion. — Fisher, Irving.
- The Stock Market Crash—and After. — Fisher, Irving.
- The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth. — Friedman, Benjamin M.
- A Monetary History of the United States 1867–1960 — Friedman, Milton, and Anna J. Schwartz
- The Great Crash, 1929. — Galbraith, John Kenneth.
- Famous First Bubbles. — Garber, Peter
- Adventures in the Screen Trade. — Goldman, William.
- The Forgotten Depression: 1921; The Crash That Cured Itself. — Grant, James.
- American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper. — Hacker, Jacob S., and Paul Pierson.
- Metaphor and Mills: Figurative Language in Business and Economics. — Herrera-Soler, Honesto, and Michael White.
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. — Hofstadter, Douglas R.
- The Panic of 1857 and the Coming of the Civil War. — Huston, James L.
- Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins. — Kasparov, Garry.
- Cognitive Neuroscience of Language. — Cognitive Neuroscience of Language.
- Economic Consequences of the Peace. — Keynes, John Maynard.
- The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money — Keynes, John Maynard.
- Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities. — Morson, Gary Saul, and Morton Schapiro.
- Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much. — Mullainathan, Sendhil, and Eldar Shafir.
- The Tyranny of Metrics. — Muller, Jerry Z.
- Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies. — Narayanan, Arvind, Joseph Bonneau, Edward Felten, Andrew Miller, and Steven Goldfeder.
- Understanding the Process of Economic Change. — North, Douglass.
- The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups. — Olson, Mancur.
- Music, Language, and the Brain. — Patel, Aniruddh D.
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century. — Piketty, Thomas.
- Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention. — Posner, Michael I.
- Theory and History of Folklore. — Propp, Vladimir.
- The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Model of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—And Us. — Prum, Richard O.
- The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century. — Scheidel, Walter.
- Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe. — Scheve, Kenneth, and David Stasavage.
- Irrational Exuberance. — Shiller, Robert J.
- Stocks for the Long Run. — Siegel, Jeremy J.
- When Washington Shut Down Wall Street: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 and the Origins of America’s Monetary Supremacy. — Silber, William.
- The Making of Modern Economics. — Skousen, Mark.
- Jeans: A Cultural History of an American Icon. — Sullivan, James.
- Lessons from the Great Depression. — Temin, Peter.
- Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics. — Thaler, Richard.
- Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness. — Thaler, Richard, and Cass Sunstein.
- Conspiracy Theories and the People Who Believe Them. — Uscinski, Joseph E.
- The Way the World Works: How Economies Fail and Succeed. — Wanniski, Jude.
- Karl Marx: A Life. — Wheen, Francis.
- Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge. — Wilson, Edward O.
- The Neurology of Narrative. — Young, Kay, and Jeffrey Saver.
- Interpreting Mr. Keynes: The IS-LM Enigma. — Young, Warren.