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Books, articles, and essays for further reading
- Worldly Power: The Making of the Wall Street Journal — Edward Scharff
- Irving Fisher: A Biography — Robert Loring Allen
- The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincaré — Henri Poincaré
- Social Darwinism in American Thought — Richard Hofstadter
- What the Social Classes Owe to Each Other — William Graham Sumner
- Mathematical Investigations in the Theory of Value and Price — Irving Fisher
- The Economics of Irving Fisher: Reviewing the Scientific Work of a Great Economist — Hans-E. Loef and Hans G. Monissen
- The Invisible Hand: Economic Equilibrium in the History of Science — Bruno Ingrao and Giorgio Israel
- The Stock Market Barometer — William Peter Hamilton
- The Purchasing Power of Money: Its Determination and Relation to Credit, Interest and Crises — Harry G. Brown
- The Stock Market Crash and After — Irving Fisher
- Hayek’s Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F. A. Hayek — Bruce Caldwell
- The Backward Art of Spending Money — Wesley Clair Mitchell
- The Engineers and the Price System — Thorstein Veblen
- The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money — John Maynard Keynes
- Value and Capital: An Inquiry into Some Fundamental Principles of Economic Theory — John Hicks
- Rogues to Riches: The Trouble with Wall Street — Murray Teigh Bloom
- Models of My Life — Herbert A. Simon
- Two Lucky People: Memoirs — Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman
- The Theory of Investment Value — John Burr Williams
- Paul Samuelson: On Being an Economist — Michael Szenberg, Aron Gottesman, and Lall Ramrattan
- Capital Ideas — Peter Bernstein
- The Stock Market and Finance from a Physicist’s Viewpoint — M. F. M. Osborne
- Chaos: Making a New Science — James Gleick
- Fifty Years of Investment Analysis: A Retrospective — John Burr Williams
- Investment Gurus — Peter Tanous
- Conversations with Economists: New Classical Opponents and Their Opponents Speak Out on the Current Controversy in Macroeconomics — Arjo Klamer
- My Years with General Motors — Alfred P. Sloan Jr.
- The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Lif — Gerd Gigerenzer, Zeno Swijtink, Theodore Porter, Lorraine Daston, John Beatty, Lorenz Krüger
- Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance — Perry Mehrling
- Memoirs of an Unregulated Economist — George J. Stigler
- Against the Grain: How to Succeed in Business by Peddling Heresy — Joel M. Stern with Irwin Ross
- The Random Character of Stock Prices — Paul Cootner, ed.
- John Bogle on Investing: The First 50 Years — John C. Bogle,
- The Memoirs of the Dean of Wall Street — Benjamin Graham
- The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel — Benjamin Graham
- Security Analysis — Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd
- Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist — Roger Lowenstein
- The Seven Fat Years: Chronicles of Wall Street — John Brooks
- The Money Game — Adam Smith
- The Go-Go Years — John Brooks
- A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class — Joseph Nocera
- The (Mis)behavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin, and Reward — Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson
- Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort: An Introduction to Human Ecology — George Kingsley Zipf
- Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk — Peter L. Bernstein
- The Money Flood: How Pension Funds Revolutionized Investing — Michael J. Clowes
- Social Theory and Social Structure — Robert K. Merton
- Escape to the Futures — Leo Melamed, with Bob Tamarkin
- The Wealth of Nations — Adam Smith
- The Affluent Society — John Kenneth Galbraith
- The White Sharks of Wall Street: Thomas Mellon Evans and the Original Corporate Raiders — Diana Henriques
- The Predators’ Ball: The Junk Bond Raiders and the Man Who Staked Them — Connie Bruck
- Payback: The Conspiracy to Destroy Michael Milken and His Financial Revolution — Daniel Fischel
- Sense and Nonsense in Corporate Finance — Louis Lowenstein
- What’s Wrong with Wall Street? — Louis Lowenstein
- The Intellectual Venture Capitalist: John H. McArthur and the Work of the Harvard Business School — Thomas McCraw and Jeffrey L. Cruikshank
- The Rhetoric of Economics — Donald N. McCloskey
- The New Finance: The Case Against Efficient Markets — Robert Haugen
- Money Angles — Andrew Tobias
- Fortune’s Formula — William Poundstone
- Stocks for the Long Run — Jeremy J. Siegel
- The Age of Turbulence — Alan Greenspan
- One Market Under God — Thomas Frank
- The Number: How the Drive for Quarterly Earnings Corrupted Wall Street and Corporate America — Alex Berenson
- Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes and How to Correct Them — Gary Belsky and Thomas Gilovich
- Predictably Irrational — Dan Ariely
- Your Money and Your Brain — Jason Zweig
- Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness — Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
- Behavioral Law and Economics — Cass R. Sunstein, ed.,
- The Paradox of Asset Pricing — Peter Bossaerts
- The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics — Eric D. Beinhocker
- Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations: A Story of Economic Discovery — David Warsh
- Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises — Charles Kindleberger
- Can “It” Happen Again: Essays on Instability and Finance — Hyman P. Minsky
- The Subprime Solution: How Today’s Global Financial Crisis Happened and What to Do About It — Robert Shiller