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Freshman Economics

The Worldly Philosophers, by Robert Heilbroner

Spin-Free Economics, by Nariman Behravesh

Capitalism and Freedom, by Milton Friedman

Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff, by Arthur Okun

Nudge, by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein

The Return of Depression Economics, by Paul Krugman

Animal Spirits, by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller

The Myth of the Rational Voter, by Bryan Caplan

Economic Gangsters, by Raymond Fisman and Edward Miguel

The Price of Everything, by Russell Roberts

Superfreakonomics, by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt

(Harvard Economics 10 - http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/08/impossible-task.html)

The Great Depression

Barro, Robert. 2009. Macroeconomic Effects from Government Purchases and Taxes. (Related paper here: http://ideas.repec.org/p/nbr/nberwo/15369.html). National Science Foundation.

Bernanke, Ben S. 2004. Essays on the Great Depression. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Cole, Harold and Lee Ohanian. 1999. The Great Depression in the United States from a Neoclassical Perspective. Federal Reserve Bank Quarterly.

Friedman Milton and Anna Jacobson Schwartz. 1971. Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Ramey, Valerie. 2009. Identifying Government Spending Shocks: It’s All in the Timing. University of California, San Diego.

(Harvard Professor Robert Barro’s Five Great Books on the Depression - http://five-books.com/interviews/robert-barro)

Select Textbooks
Mankiw, Greg. 2008. Principles of Macroeconomics (5th ed.). South-Western College Pub.

Select Study Guides
Mankiw, Greg. 2008. Study Guide for Mankiw's Principles of Economics (5th ed.). South-Western College Pub.