Thinking about it sometime later, I started pasting together a more organized, ordered list. Here it is:
| Leviathan | Thomas Hobbes |
| Two Treatises on Government | John Locke |
| The Social Contract | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| Treatise of Human Nature | David Hume |
| An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | Adam Smith |
| A Treatise on Political Economy | Jean-Baptiste Say |
| Principles of Political Economy and Taxation | David Ricardo |
| Principles of Political Economy | John Stuart Mill |
| Elements of Pure Economics | Leon Walras |
| Capital: A Critique of Political Economy | Karl Marx |
| The Protestant Ethic and Spirit of Capitalism | Max Weber |
| The Division of Labor in Society | Emile Durkheim |
| Money, Credit and Commerce The Debt Deflation Theory of Great Depressions |
Alfred Marshall Irving Fisher |
| The Theory of Credit and Money | Ludwig von Mises |
| The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money | John Maynard Keynes |
| The Road to Serfdom | Friedrich A. Hayek |
| Human Action: A Treatise on Economics | Ludwig von Mises |
| Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy | Joseph A. Schumpeter |
| The Economics of Information | George J. Stigler |
| The New Industrial State | John Kenneth Galbraith |
| The Affluent State | John Kenneth Galbraith |
| A Theory of Justice | John Rawls |
| Capitalism and Freedom | Milton Friedman |
| The Conscience of a Liberal | Paul Krugman |
| Stabilizing An Unstable Economy | Hyman Minsky |
| Debunking Economics | Steve Keen |
| Crisis Economics | Nouriel Roubini |
| Irrational Exuberance | Robert J. Shiller |
| Freefall | Joseph E. Stiglitz |
| The Predator State | James K. Galbraith |
| Animal Spirits | George A. Akerloff |
| Predictably Irrational | Dan Ariely |
| Neuroeconomics | Ernst Fehr |
| The Conservative Nanny State | Dean Baker |
| Fault Lines | Raguram G. Rajan |
| ECONned | Yves Smith |
There are, of course, others that I would include on a fuller list. What others would you include? Suggestions welcome.
Hobbes, Locke & Rousseau were all High School & University subjects in political science (my co-major at Rutgers). Hume through Schumpeter were covered in my undergrad micro econ classes (which featured Paul Samuelson's Economics textbook), though von Mises and Hayek were largely ignored [due to praexological method that didn't fit with quant-loving mathematicians?]. Rawls and Galbraith the Elder were influential during my early childhood, which I came back to after absorbing my fill of Chicago School teachings. Friedman was all the rage during the Reaganomics / supply-side revolution, leading me to Stigler on my own. The rest I discovered on my own personal journey during adulthood... a journey that continues.
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