Reference Books

These are some of the books that helped form my opinions about political economy. You can purchase them or just read about them on amazon.com.

COMPLEXITY THEORY

1) COMPLEXITY: The Emerging Science At The Edge of Order and Chaos, by
M.Mitchell Waldrop.
2) CHAOS: Making A New Science, by James Gleick
3) CONFEDERATES IN THE BOARDROOM: How the principles of confederation are
rejunenating business and challenging bureaucracy, by Mike Tuggle
4) BOUNDARIES OF ORDER: Private Property as a Social System, by Butlet Shaffer
5) THE FATAL CONCEIT: The Errors of Socialism, by F.A. Hayek
6) BIONOMICS: Economy As Ecosystem, by Michael Rothschild
7) PLANNED CHAOS, by Ludwig von Mises
8) CHAOS, MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMICS: The Implications of Non-Linear Thinking,
by, David Parker and Ralph Stacey


EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY

1) MISTAKES WERE MADE: (but not by me), by Carol Tavris and Ellito Aronson
2) THE MORAL ANIMAL: Why We Are The Way We Are; The New Science of Evolutionary
Psychology, by Robert Wright
3) CHIMPANZEE POLITICS: Power and Sex Among Apes, by Frans de Waal
4) THE ORIGINS OF VIRTUE: Human Instincts And The Evolution of Cooperation, by Matt
Ridley
5) GOOD NATURED: The Origins Of Right And Wrong In Humans And Other Animals, by
Frans de Waal
6) PORTRAITS OF TEMPERAMENT, by David Keirsey
7) ENVY: A Theory of Social Behavior, by Helmut Schoeck

HISTORY

1) AN ESSAY ON THE HISTORY OF CIVIL SOCIETY, by Adam Ferguson
2) THE GOD OF THE MACHINE, by Isabel Paterson
3) THE WORLDLY PHILOSOPHERS: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic
Thinkers, by Robert Heilbroner
4) THE THEME IS FREEDOM: Religion, Politics, and the American Tradition, by M.
Stanton Evans
5) FOR GOOD AND EVIL: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization by Charles
Adams
6) HOW THE WEST GREW RICH: The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World by
Nathan Rosenberg and L.E. Birdzell, Jr.
7) MAKERS AND TAKERS: How Wealth And Progress Are Made And How They Are Taken
Away Or Prevented, by Edmund Contoski
8) THE NOBLEST TRIUMPH: Property And Prosperity Through The Ages, by Tom Bethell
9) THE REAL LINCOLN: A New Look At Abrahan Lincoln, His Agenda, And An
Unnecessary War, by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
10) EMANCIPATING SLAVES, ENSLAVING FREE MEN: A History of the American Civil War,
by Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
11) THE HISTORY OF FREEDOM, by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
12) THE DISCOVERY OF FREEDOM: Man's Struggle Against Authority, by Rose Wilder Lane
13) THE POLITICALLY INCORRECT GUIDE TO AMERICAN HISTORY, by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
14) TRUST: The Social Virtues And The Creation of Prosperity

AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS

1) ECONOMICS IN ONE LESSON, by Henry Hazlitt
2) 15 GREAT AUSTRIAN ECONOMISTS, edited with an Introduction by Randall G. Holcombe
3) THE MYSTERY OF BANKING, by Murray N. Rothbard
4) HOW AN ECONOMY GROWS: And Why It Crashes, by Peter D. Schiff and Andrew J Schiff
5) ECONOMICS FOR REAL PEOPLE: An Introduction to the Austrian School, 2nd edition, by Gene Callahan
6) END THE FED, by Ron Paul
7) ECONOMICS ON TRIAL: Lies, Myths, and Realities, by Mark Skousen

LAW, POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, and POLITICS

1) THE ROAD TO SERFDOM, by F.A. Hayek
2) FOR A NEW LIBERTY: The Libertarian Manifesto, by Murray N. Rothbard.
3) THE LAW, by Frederic Bastiat
4) THE PRINCE, by Niccolo Machiavelli
5) THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
6) THE POLITICALLY INCORRECT GUIDE TO THE CONSTITUTION,
by Kevin R.C. Gutzman
7) LOST RIGHTS: The Destruction of American Liberty, by James Bovard
8) EGALITARIANISM AS A REVOLT AGAINST NATURE: And Other Essays, by Murray N. Rothbard
9) HEALING OUR WORLD: In An Age Of Aggression, by Dr. Mary J. Ruwart
10)THE ETHICS OF LIBERTY, by Murray N. Rothbard

THE UNCLE ERIC SERIES, by Richard J. Maybury