 | Understanding the World Economy by Tony Cleaver
Buy new: £28.99 / Used from: £15.65 Simply the best guide for students and interested readers who want to understand economics.
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 | The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers (Penguin Business Library) by Robert L Heilbroner
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £4.99 A superb introduction to the history of economic thought
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 | Labour Economics by Stephen W. Smith
Buy new: £38.00 / Used from: £32.87 The best labour economics textbook available. Open-minded.
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 | Routledge Dictionary of Economics by Donald Rutherford
Buy new: £24.69 / Used from: £21.54 The only dictionary that's worth actually buying, best coverage, best definitions.
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 | The Affluent Society (Penguin Business) by John Kenneth Galbraith
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £3.96 An absolute classic, brought us the term "conventional wisdom" and so much more besides.
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 | Game Theory: A Critical Introduction by Shaun Hargreaves-Heap
Buy used from: £33.29 Game theory is everywhere in economics, and this is just the book you'll want to read to get a grip on it.
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 | Wealth of Nations (Modern Library) by Adam Smith
Buy new: £11.99 / Used from: £11.28 One of the few economics books that is literally a must read book, also one of the most mis-enderstood books of all time
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 | Capital: An Abridged Edition (Oxford World's Classics) by Karl Marx
Buy used from: £6.85 I refer the reader to the review given for the Adam Smith book above!
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 | Reorienting Economics (Economics & Social Theory) by Tony Lawson
Buy new: £28.49 / Used from: £28.30 An important contribution to the deabte on the future of economics, and possibly Lawson's best book yet
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 | Development Policy in the Twenty First Century: Beyond the Post-Washington Consensus (Routledge Studies in Development Economics)
Buy new: £30.39 / Used from: £37.09 An intelligent critique of the Post-Washington consensus. Read it.
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 | Basic Mathematics for Economists by M.J. Rosser
Buy used from: £11.99 You'll need a decent grasp of math to get to grips with economics - this book will help you.
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 | Foundations of Paul Samuelson's Revealed Preference Theory (Routledge INEM Advances in Economic Methodology) by Stanley Wong
Buy new: £65.00 / Used from: £81.80 A classic, quite simply one of the most important economics books to be published since the second world war.
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 | The Theory of the Leisure Class (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Robert Lekachman
Buy new: £10.99 / Used from: £0.51 Not easy reading, but important and if you want to know what conspicuous consumption is, then this is your book
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 | The Piratization of Russia: Russian Reform Goes Awry by Marshall I. Goldman
Buy new: £19.94 / Used from: £8.50 Russia's transition from Communist to Capitalist was never going to run smooth, but the process has actually been shockingly bad - read this book.
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