Ask HN: What are the must-read books about economics/finance?

Post by kingmanaz » Fri, Sep 23, 2016, 1:28 PM UTC

Post by hellogoodbyeeee » Fri, Sep 23, 2016, 1:31 PM UTC

Post by oli5679 » Fri, Sep 23, 2016, 1:34 PM UTC

chestervonwinch wrote: post #148

riffraff wrote: post #123

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I second the suggestion of mankiw's book, covers a lot, it's well written and mixes both interesting anecdotes and actual "theory".

How would compare Mankiw's Principles of Micro / Macro separately vs. his single, Principles of Economics text? Some background: I'm a graduate student with little time, but this election cycle has motivated me to learn some basic economics / history in my spare time.

Post by vegancap » Fri, Sep 23, 2016, 1:40 PM UTC

conjectures wrote: post #170

vegancap wrote: post #167

Henry Hazlitt - 'Economics in one lesson' Mises - 'Theory of Credit and Money' Adam Smith - 'Wealth of Nations' Milton Friedman - 'Capitalism and Freedom' Murray Rothbard - 'A New Liberty' Have been my personal, but somewhat one-sided favourites.

You could justifiably argue that the better part of the modern economic syllabus is just a formalist footnote to Smith. So that's a great suggestion.

Post by fiatjaf » Fri, Sep 23, 2016, 1:41 PM UTC

pyromine wrote: post #77

fiatjaf wrote: post #13

I have news for you: statistics is totally unrelated to economics. Better rethink everything you think you know. For people wanting recommendations, I suggest Carl Menger's Principles of Economics, which has saved me from stupidification on college.

This is a completely unrealistic statement. Our models are imperfect, but with ever increasing economic data there is ever increasing opportunity to utilize statistics with economic and financial data. In fact look in to the field of econometrics and unless that field is a fantasy, there is a huge relation between statistics and economics.