History of Economic Thought: What is Economics?
An Economics Reading List
Blaug, Mark, Economic Theory in Retrospect
Galbraith, John Kenneth, A History of Economics: The Past as Present
Heilbroner, Robert, The Worldly Philosophers
Hirschman, Albert, The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph
Kirzner, Israel, The Economic Point of View
Kishtainy, Niall, A Little History of Economics
Levy, David M. and Sandra J. Peart, The Secret History of the Dismal Science
Multipart, illustrated series of articles on the parallel relationships between economists and anti-slavery advocates in the mid- to late 1800s. Contrasts pro-slavery writers such as Carlyle, Ruskin, Dickens with economists of the period, showing how those popular authors used pro-slavery language and symbolism, and linked slurs of the anti-slavery movement to contemporary economics debates.
Mises, Ludwig von Mises, The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method
Nasar, Sylvia, Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius
Robbins, Lionel, An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economics
Robbins, Lionel,A History of Economic Thought
Roncaglia, Alessandro, The Wealth of Ideas: A History of Economic Thought
Rothbard, Murray, An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought
Samuels, Warren; Biddle, Jeff; and David, John (eds), A Companion to the History of Economic Thought
Schumpeter, Joseph, A History of Economic Analysis
Sowell, Thomas, Marxism: Philosophy and Economics
Sowell, Thomas, Classical Economics Reconsidered