The Following is an adaptive list of books that I believe influenced my views pertaining to economics and financial markets. A lot of the books on this list are deeply contradictory in terms of ideas and methodology and this isn't an accident, I want you to challenge yourself, read everything and then come to your own conclusions. This is the way I did it.
Not all of these are strictly speaking "economics books" however, this is also not an accident; a working knowledge of history, geopolitics, technology, and evolutionary psychology are just as vital to understanding global economic trends as is your ability to work with macroeconomic models.
Listed in no particular order. Here you go.
Zero to One by Peter Thiel
Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
Basic Economics: A Citizen’s Guide to the Economy by Thomas Sowell
Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
Economics for Real People by Gene Callahan
Austrian Economics – A Primer by Eamonn Butler
The Case Against the Fed by Murray Rothbard
What Has Government Done to Our Money? by Murray Rothbard
Anatomy of the State by Murray Rothbard
The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek
Planned Chaos by Ludwig Von Mises
The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand
Antifragile by Nassim Taleb
The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb
History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
The Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx and Frederich Engels
Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom
The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
