Authors | Title | Recommender(s) | Press | Year of Publication |
| Gary Becker | Human Capital | Prof. Gaynor | University of Chicago Press | 1993 |
| Diane Coyle | The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why it Matters | Prof. Goldburg | Princeton University Press | 2007 |
| Avinash Dixit and Barry Nalebuff | Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life | Prof. Spatt | W.W. Norton & Co. | 1991 |
| Darrel Duffie | Dynamic Asset Pricing Theory | Prof. Seppi | Princeton University Press | 2001 |
| William Easterly | The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics | Prof. McCallum | M.I.T. Press | 2002 |
| David D. Friedman | Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life | Prof. Goodfriend | HarperCollins | 1996 |
| Milton Friedman | Capitalism and Freedom | Profs. Ferreyra, Goldburg, Goodfriend, and McCallum | The University of Chicago Press | 1962 |
| Victor Fuchs | Who Should Live? | Prof. Gaynor | World Scientific Publishing Co. | 1998 |
| John Kenneth Galbraith | The Affluent Society | Profs. Goldburg and Keech | Houghton Mifflin | 1998 (40th Anniversary Edition) |
| Friedrich A. Hayek | Road to Serfdom | Prof. Keech | The University of Chicago Press | 1994 (Fiftieth Anniversary Edition) |
| Robert Heilbroner | The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers | Prof. Goldburg | Touchstone Press | 1995 (7th Edition) |
| Albert O. Hirschman | Exit, Voice and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States | Prof. Keech | Harvard University Press | 1970 |
| John Maynard Keynes | General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money | Prof. Ferreyra | Prometheus Books | 1936 |
| Lawrence Kotlikoff and Scott Burns | The Coming Generational Storm | Prof. Spatt | M.I.T. Press | 2004 |
| Steven Landsburg | Armchair Economist: Economics and Everyday Experience | Profs. Routledge and Goodfriend | Simon & Schuster | 1993 |
| Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner | Freakanomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything | Profs. Goldburg and Spatt | HarperCollins | 2005 |
| Burton Malkiel | A Random Walk Down Wall Street | Profs. Routledge and Spatt | W.W. Norton & Co. | 2003 (8th Edition) |
| Joel Mokyr | The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress | Prof. Goodfriend | Oxford University Press | 1998 |
| Douglass C. North and Robert Paul Thomas | The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History | Prof. Goodfriend | Cambridge University Press | 1973 |
| Mancur Olsen | The Logic of Collective Action: Public Good and the Theory of Groups | Prof. Keech | Harvard University Press | 1971 (2nd Edition) |
| Sherwin Rosen | Markets and Diversity | Prof. Spatt | Harvard University Press | 2004 |
| Thomas Schelling | Micromotives and Macrobehavior | Prof. Spatt | W.W. Norton & Co. | 1978 |
| Thomas Schelling | Strategy of Conflict | Prof. Keech | Harvard University Press | 1960 |
| Robert Schiller | Irrational Exuberance | Prof. Fong | Random House | 2000 (2nd Edition) |
| Joseph A. Schumpeter | Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy | Prof. Goldburg | HarperCollins | 1950 (3rd Edition) |
| Amartya Sen | Collective Choice and Social Welfare | Prof. Keech | North Holland Press | 1970 |
| Adam Smith | An Inquiry into the Nature and the Causes of the Wealth of Nations | Prof. Goldburg | Liberty Fund | 1776 (1981 Edition) |
| Richard H. Thaler | The Winner's Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life | Prof. Weber | Princeton University Press | 1992 |
| David Warsh | Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations: A Story of Economic Discovery | Prof. Keech | W.W. Norton & Co. | 2006 |
Source: Well-Read Economist-Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon
