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Classical

• The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith · 1776
• On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation David Ricardo · 1817
• Principles of Political Economy John Stuart Mill · 1848
• An Essay on the Principle of Population Thomas Robert Malthus · 1798
• A Treatise on Political Economy Jean-Baptiste Say · 1803

Austrian

• Principles of Economics Carl Menger · 1871
• Human Action Ludwig von Mises · 1949
• The Road to Serfdom Friedrich A. Hayek · 1944
• Man, Economy, and State Murray N. Rothbard · 1962
• Capital and Interest Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk · 1884
• Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis Ludwig von Mises · 1922

Keynesian

• The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money John Maynard Keynes · 1936
• The Economic Consequences of the Peace John Maynard Keynes · 1919
• The Affluent Society John Kenneth Galbraith · 1958
• Stabilizing an Unstable Economy Hyman Minsky · 1986
• The New Industrial State John Kenneth Galbraith · 1967

Monetarist & Chicago

• A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960 Milton Friedman & Anna Schwartz · 1963
• Capitalism and Freedom Milton Friedman · 1962
• Free to Choose Milton & Rose Friedman · 1980
• The Calculus of Consent James Buchanan & Gordon Tullock · 1962
• The Constitution of Liberty Friedrich A. Hayek · 1960

Marxian & Socialist

• Das Kapital Karl Marx · 1867
• The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels · 1848
• The Accumulation of Capital Rosa Luxemburg · 1913
• Socialism: Utopian and Scientific Friedrich Engels · 1880
• The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen · 1899

Economic History

• The Worldly Philosophers Robert Heilbroner · 1953
• This Time Is Different Carmen Reinhart & Kenneth Rogoff · 2009
• The Great Transformation Karl Polanyi · 1944
• Why Nations Fail Daron Acemoglu & James Robinson · 2012
• The Wealth and Poverty of Nations David Landes · 1998