The Wall Street Journal readers recommend twenty-five financial books for your summer reading list.
Wharton professor Olivia Mitchell discussed in a recent WSJ Experts blog post how a college course taught by John Kenneth Galbraith had the most profound effect on her career as an economist. Prof. Mitchell says she continues to recommend the book around which his course was constructed, “The Great Crash: 1929,” which, to this day, offers insights on the risks facing economies everywhere.
Financial books recommended by WSJ readers
Here are 25 that should help fill out your summer reading list early.
- “The Wealth of Nations,” by Adam Smith
Kevin Chao, Bill Gordon and Don Malpas (Facebook)
- “Free to Choose” by Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman
David Simon, Jonathan Seder and Nunya (WSJ.com)
- “The Affluent Society” by John Kenneth Galbraith
Ray Heard (Twitter) and Donald Hilborn (Facebook)
- “A Random Walk Down Wall Street” by Burton G. Malkiel
Mike Brodsky (Twitter)
- “The Intelligent Investor” by Benjamin Graham
Anthony Victor Vu (Facebook)
- “Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy” by Thomas Sowell
Logan Wallace, Don Campbell (Facebook) and Dennis (WSJ.com)
- “Irrational Exuberance” by Robert J. Shiller
Yogeeswar Pal (WSJ.com) and Brent Chisholm (Facebook)
- “Economic Facts and Fallacies,” by Thomas Sowell
Aidn Al (Facebook)
- “Where Are the Customers’ Yachts? or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street” by Fred Schwed Jr.
John Kozora (Facebook)
- “The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve” by G. Edward Griffin
Craig Keller (Facebook)
- “Where the Sidewalk Ends” by Shel Silverstein
Joshua Smith (Twitter)
- “Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets” by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
EA Berry (WSJ.com)
- “The Road to Serfdom” by F.A. Hayek
Jonathan Seder (WSJ.com)
- “Macroeconomics” by N. Gregory Mankiw
Adril Azmin (Facebook)
- “Triumph of the Optimists: 101 Years of Global Investment Returns” by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton
Terry Janas (Facebook)
- “Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science” by Charles Wheelan
Cihad Ayd?n (Facebook)
- “The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America–and Spawned a Global Crisis” by Michael W. Hudson
Djurdja Jovanovic Padejski (Facebook)
- “Das Kapital, Vol. 1,” by Karl Marx
Will Valenti (Facebook)
- “The Money Masters” by John Train
David Korn (WSJ.com)
- “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill
Raul Escalante (Facebook)
- “Economics of the Undead: Zombies, Vampires, and the Dismal Science” by Glen Whitman and James Dow
Chris Daniels (Facebook)
- “Against the Gods: the Remarkable Story of Risk” by Peter L. Bernstein
Michael Reilly (Facebook)
- “Human Action: A Treatise on Economics” by Ludwig von Mises
Andrew (WSJ.com)
- “Money: Master the Game” by Tony Robbins
Mikki McConville (Twitter)
- “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” by Thomas Piketty
Per Sepsin (Facebook)
