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Economics: The User's Guide
Ha-Joon Chang, 2014Schools
The best single introduction to the different schools. Written by a heterodox economist, and open about it.
The Economy (CORE Econ)
Free online textbookFree
Built after 2008 to start from real problems. A good companion to any introductory course.
The Worldly Philosophers
Robert Heilbroner, 1953History
The history of economic thought told through the lives of the economists.
Exploring Economics
Free online platformFree
Short pluralist explainers of each school, written by students and researchers.

Economics Rules
Dani Rodrik, 2015Methods
How economists use models, and how they misuse them.
Why Nations Fail
Acemoglu and Robinson, 2012Institutions
Institutions and prosperity, by two of the 2024 Nobel winners.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman, 2011Behavioural
The behavioural classic. Some priming studies in chapter 4 have failed to replicate, as Kahneman himself acknowledged.
Doughnut Economics
Kate Raworth, 2017Ecological
The ecological critique, and the model Amsterdam adopted.
Career and Family
Claudia Goldin, 2021Labour
A century of women's work and the pay gap, by the 2023 Nobel winner.
Good Economics for Hard Times
Banerjee and Duflo, 2019Empirical
Evidence on trade, migration and inequality from two experimentalists.
The Deficit Myth
Stephanie Kelton, 2020MMT
The MMT case in its strongest popular form. Read it next to a critique.
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty, 2014Inequality
Long-run wealth inequality. Heavy; Rognlie (2015) is a well-known reply.

Planet Money
NPR podcastNeutral
Short, vivid stories about everyday economics.
EconTalk
Russ Roberts, podcastFree-market
Long interviews with economists of every school. The host leans free-market.
Marginal Revolution
Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok, blogFree-market
Daily links and commentary. Libertarian-leaning, very widely read.
Our World in Data
WebsiteData
Clean charts on almost any economic question. Use it to check claims.
OECD Data Explorer, Eurostat and World Bank Open Data
International data portalsData
International and EU data straight from the source.