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Richard H. Tawney |
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Robert L. Heilbroner |
Good Reading began puplication in 1947 and in 1990 issued the 23rd edition of the work. The purpose of Good Reading: is "to lead an increasing number of people to savor the great or significant books, both those that strive to light the dark places in our understanding of our complex world and our equally complex selves, and those that aim simply to delight." The following list of books in economics is from Good Reading: A Guide for Serious Readers (22nd ed., 1985) and was compiled by Thomas Prapas of the College of Staten Island.
| Paul Baran & Paul M. Sweezy | Monopoly Capital. 1966 |
| Richard Barnet & Ronald E. Muller | Global Reach. 1975 |
| P.T. Bauer | Equality: The Third World and Economic Delusion. 1982 |
| Adolf A. Berle & Gardiner C. Means | The Modern Corporation and Private Property. 1933 |
| Samuel Bowles & Gordon Weisskopf | Beyond the Waste Land: A Democratic Alternative to Economic Decline. 1983 |
| Lester R. Brown | Building a Sustainable Society. 1981 |
| Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. | The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business. 1977 |
| Alexander Eckstein | China's Economic Revolution. 1977 |
| Economic Report of the President | Issued in January Each Year |
| Alfred S. Eichner | A Guide to Post Keynesian Economics. 1978 |
| Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta | Supply-Side Economics in the 1980s. 1982 |
| Milton Freedman & Rose Freedman | Free to Choose. 1980 |
| John Kenneth Galbraith | Economics and the Public Purpose. 1973 |
| Marshall I. Goldman | USSR in Crisis. 1983 |
| Frederich A. Hayek | The Road to Serfdom. 1944 |
| Robert L. Heilbroner | The Making of Economic Society. 7th ed. 1985 |
| Robert L. Heilbroner | The Worldly Philosophers. 5th ed. 1980 |
| Robert L. Heilbroner & Lester Thurow | Five Economic Challenges. 1981 |
| Walter W. Heller | The Economy: Old Myths and New Realities. 1976 |
| Edward S. Herman | Corporate Control, Corporate Power. 1982 |
| Chalmers Johnson | MITI and the Japanese Miracle. 1982 |
| John Maynard Keynes | The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. 1936 |
| Robert Lekachman | Economists at Bay: Why the Experts Will Never Solve Your Problems. 1976 |
| V.I. Lenin | Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism. 1917 |
| Ira Magaziner & Robert Reich | Minding America's Business. 1982 |
| Thomas Robert Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population. 1798 |
| Ernest Mandel | The Formation of the Thought of Karl Marx. 1971 |
| Alfred Marshall | Principles of Economics. 1890 |
| Karl Marx | Capital. Vol. 1 1867 |
| John Stuart Mill | Principles of Political Economy. 1848 |
| Gunnar Myrdal | Against the Stream: Critical Essays in Economics. 1972 |
| Michael Novak | The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism. 1982 |
| Artur M. Okum | Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff. 1975 |
| James O'Toole, et al | Work in America. 1973 |
| Joseph G. Rayback | A History of American Labor. 1966 |
| Joan Robinson | Economic Philosophy. 1961 |
| Sidney E. Rolfe & James L. Burtle | The Great Wheel: The World Monetary System. 1973 |
| Emma Rotschild | Paradise Lost: The Decline of the Auto-Industrial Age. 1974 |
| Paul Samuelson | Economics: An Introductory Analysis. 12th ed. 1985 |
| E.F. Schumacher | Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered. 1973 |
| Joseph Schumpeter | Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. 3rd ed. 1950 |
| Leonard Silk | The Economists. 1976 |
| Adam Smith | The Wealth of Nations. 1776 |
| Thomas Sowell | Race and Economics. 1975 |
| William K. Tabb | The Political Economy of the Black Ghetto. 1971 |
| Richard H. Tawney | The Acquisitive Society. 1920 |
| Lester Thurow | Dangerous Currents: The State of Economics. 1983 |
| Thorstein Veblen | The Theory of the Leisure Class. 1899 |
| Walter Weisskopf | Alienation and Economics. 1971 |
| Juanita Kreps, ed. | Women and the American Economy. 1976 |
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