{"id":5306,"count":151,"description":"We've asked some of the most eminent public figures and theorists to recommend economics books for <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/\"><em>Five Books<\/em><\/a>. Robert Shiller (2013 Nobel economics prize) chose books on '<a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/robert-shiller-on-capitalism-and-human-nature\/\">Human Traits Essential to Capitalism'<\/a>. Paul Krugman (Nobel 2008) talked about the books that <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/paul-krugman-readinglist\/\">inspired him to become an economist<\/a> (he included a work of <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/fiction\/science-fiction\/\">science fiction<\/a>). Daron Acemoglu (Nobel 2024) talked to us about <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/inequality-daron-acemoglu\/\">inequality<\/a>, Simon Johnson (Nobel 2024) on <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/economic-history-books-simon-johnson\/\">'Why Economic History Matters.'<\/a> Eric Maskin (Nobel 2007) spoke on <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/economic-theory-financial-crisis-eric-maskin\/\">'Economic Theory and the Financial Crisis.'<\/a> We also have reviews of the <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/people\/books-by-claudia-goldin\/\">work of Claudia Goldin<\/a> (Nobel 2023) on unfair pay. Far from a dismal science, economics can be a path to saving the world.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/economics\/behavioural-economics\/\">Behavioural Economics<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/economics\/financial-crisis\/\">Financial Crisis Books<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/economics\/monopolies\/\">Monopolies<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/economics\/finance\/\">Finance<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/business\/best-investing-books\/\">Investing Books<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/economics\/economic-history\/\">Economic History<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/economics\/development-economics\/\">Development Economics<\/a>\u00a0 | <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/economics\/fiction-recommended-by-economists\/\">Fiction Recommended by Economists\u00a0<\/a>","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/economics\/","name":"Economics Books","slug":"economics","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/5306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=5306"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=5306"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=5306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}