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For purposes of this list, only include books with over 1000 ratings and shelved at least 200 times as economics.

Anything with less than 1000 ratings or shelved less than 200 times as economics will be removed and without comment.

Economics By Decade:
2020s

By Year:
2027, 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023

See also:
Best Economics Books
Best Popular Economics Books on Goodreads
The Austrian School of Economics
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message 1: by Jeffrey (new)

Jeffrey Gao Economics?! BO-RING!


message 2: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman Added a bunch more books. There are definitely some very readable very popular books on this list. An economist might not find them all that important. But check out anything on this list by Malcolm Gladwell or Michael Lewis or Steven D Levitt for something readable economics-y and not boring


message 3: by Mitchell (last edited Jun 28, 2026 12:16PM) (new)

Mitchell Friedman Adjusting this list to require 200 tags of economics rather than 100

Removing The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves and The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron and How to Lie with Statistics and Intellectuals and Society and The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression and Free: The Future of a Radical Price and Business adventures and Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco and A Companion to Marx's Capital, Volume 1 and Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds and Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle and Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals and The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor and Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data and The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business and Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything and The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy and The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? and Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America and The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition and The Wisdom of Crowds and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century and The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More and White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America and Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey—and Even Iraq—Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport and Black Rednecks and White Liberals and Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy and The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less and On The Wealth of Nations (Books That Changed the World) and The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy and Why Government Is the Problem (Essays in Public Policy) (Volume 39) and On Liberty and More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite and Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism and The Thomas Sowell Reader and Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology and Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal and The Fiat Standard: Debt Slavery Alternative to Human Civilization and An Economist Walks into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk and Civilization: The West and the Rest and The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy and What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures and Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? and The Essays of Warren Buffett : Lessons for Corporate America and The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It and The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age and The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream and The Simple Path to Wealth: Your Road Map to Financial Independence and a Rich, Free Life and Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens and The Little Book of Economics: How the Economy Works in the Real World and Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day and IIM Ahmedabad Business Books: Day to Day Economics and Wage Labour and Capital and Democracy: The God That Failed and The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy and The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy and The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century and The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations and The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable and "Trickle Down" Theory and "Tax Cuts for the Rich" and Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism and The Industries of the Future and The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire and How Much Is Enough? Money and the Good Life and The Quest for Cosmic Justice and Anarchy, State, and Utopia and [(Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Hap Pier) [Author: Edward Glaeser] published on (February, 2011)|167152192]


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