June Reading List

Since I have started to be busy this month working on more important details, I will list my June AND July Reading List this month. I will also catch up on the books that I have not completed from the previous months and they will not be listed on this list. This means the list I have here will be much more brief than previous lists.

Econ Books:
1. Nahid Aslanbeigui & Guy Oakes - The Making of a Cambridge Economist
2. James Rickards - The Death of Money
3. Robert J. Shiller - Irrational Exuberance

Non-Econ Books:
1. Graham T Allison - Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis

May Reading List

Here's my May Reading List:

Econ Books:

1. Robert J. Gordon - The Rise and Fall of American Growth (from April)

2. Akerlof/Shiller - Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception

3. Paul Samuelson (edited) - Inside the Economists' Mind

Non-Econ Books:

1. Martha Nussbaum - The Frontiers of Justice (continued reading)

Reading List for the Months of March and April

As we have reached the middle of March and Spring is in the air, I will post my reading lists for the months of March and April. This is a bit late for my usual reading list for the month, so I will post two months as I did last month already. I have already finished several books and I will list them along with the books I'm currently reading.

Already Finished:
Joseph Schumpeter's Two Theories of Democracy - ed. John Medearis
Leo Strauss's Defense of the Philosophic Life: Reading "What Is Political Philosophy?" - ed. Rafael Major

Econ Books:
1. John Maynard Keynes: Volume 2: The Economist as Savior, 1920-1937 - Robert Skidelsky
2. Capitalism, Democracy and Socialism (re-read) - Joseph Schumpeter
3. Why Nudge?: The Politics of Libertarian Paternalism - Cass R. Sunstein
4. Advanced Macroeconomics - David Romer (re-read of advanced undergraduate material)
5. Lectures on Macroeconomics - Olivier Blanchard and Stanley Fischer
6. Monetarist Economics - Milton Friedman

My Reading List for January and February of 2016 and a Personal Update

As announced in my last post, I have purchased a shelf-full of books at the Harvard Book Store Warehouse Sale, which means they will mostly populate my reading list for the month of January and February. I have decided to lump these two reading lists together as I have spent most of last month and this month busy with reading countless articles that pertain to my long-term personal interests.

This is where the personal update comes into hand: I have decided to spend the next couple of months researching a long term personal interest of mine and to put together something concrete over the first couple months of the year. If you are curious, writing a couple of serious articles is one of my resolutions for the exciting new year of 2016! I will try to summarize what I will write in these particular articles in maybe several couple brief blog posts. I will also try to post more of what I haven't posted onto this blog as some related information is on my old computer that is currently disabled. Let's not delay it anymore and I will be posting new information onto this blog in the coming month!

Jan, Feb 2016 Reading List:

Econ-Related Books:
1. The Selected Works of Joseph Stiglitz, Volume I and Volume II (Will definitely not finish at the end of this month as I will be reading and re-reading them in the coming months and years!)
2. Ronald Coase, Ning Wang - How China Became Capitalist
3. Jean Tirole - The Theory of Industrial Organization (Just like the Stiglitz Book: I will be actively referencing this book throughout the coming months and years and will probably also reference other similar books)

Non-Econ Related Books:
1. Martha Nussbaum - Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership (The Tanner Lectures on Human Values)
2. Martha Nussbaum - Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities

I will also be catching up on previous backlogs of books that I have posted here and in other places and try to finish them as well.

December Reading List

This will be my first post in a while as I have been busy the past couple of weeks, so I've decided to post my monthly reading list! This list is just fresh off of a great haul from the Harvard Book Store Warehouse Sale and it features a lot of great deals!

Econ Books:
1. The Selected Works of Joseph Stiglitz (Will not be able to finish this month!)
2. The Price of Civilization- Jeffrey Sachs
3. Free to Choose - Milton Friedman (Re-read 5 years later)

Non-Econ Books:
1. Wilson - A. Scott Berg
2. Nixon and Kissinger - Robert Dallek
3. Philip K Dick - Ubik
4. Philip K Dick - Man in the High Castle (re-read)

October-November Reading List and Some Updates

I've been very busy in the last month, so I haven't had a time to work on the blog post here. In this particular blog post, I will give you my October and November reading list along with some updates which includes my predictions about the big Nobel announcement on Monday.

Reading List for October and November of 2015:

Econ Books:
1. Hyman Minsky - Stabilizing An Unstable Economy
2. Dan Ariely - Predictably Irrational (re-read)
3. Robert J Shiller - Irrational Exuberance 3rd Edition
Non-Econ Books:
1. David M. Broussard - A Radical Approach to Real Analysis (Already finished)

There are other articles and probably more books I'll probably read, but primarily these are the ones I will read. The backlog is enormous as I haven't finished all of the books I was meant to read throughout these times.

As for several updates, I will definitely be writing up the material promised in my last blog post in the coming weeks as I will have some extra time to do so.

My predictions for the 2015 edition of the Nobel Prize in Economics:

Here are my picks for favorites, middle level chances and potential "dark horses":

Favorites:
1. Paul Romer (New York University) - A top macroeconomist known for his work in economic growth. He has one of my favorite papers that I have been reading and re-reading for my working paper.
2. Robert Barro (Harvard University) - A top macroeconomist who is mostly known for his work in growth theory, business cycle theory and a prominent new classical macroeconomist, which is the direct competitor to the top New Keynesian school. Probably I'd put him as my top pick for this year's Nobel Prize
3. John List (The University of Chicago) - He's the Department Chair at the University of Chicago, who specializes in field experiments in economics, which is what landed this University of Wyoming PHD graduate at one of the world's most famous economics departments.
4. Stephen Ross (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - One of the top guns in the field of finance. I rate him as one of the sharpest minds in all of economics and he should be winning a Nobel Prize for his work in finance.
5. Charles Manski (Northwestern University) - Has an outstanding papers on rational choice theory, but his work also focuses on social policy analysis.
Middle Level Chances:
1. William Nordhaus (Environmental economics)
2. Richard Thaler (Behavioral economics)
3. Michael Woodford (Monetary economics)
4. Nobuhiro Kiyotaki (Macroeconomics)
5. Paul Milgrom (Game Theory/Auction Theory)
6. Alan Krueger (Labor Economics)
7. David Kreps (Game Theory/Corporate Economics)
Potential "Dark Horses"
1. Ben Bernanke (This would be the biggest shocker since Paul Krugman won the Nobel Prize by himself)
2. Richard Blundell (Many people have him as their favorite, but I have it here based on the other notable economists who have not won the Nobel Prize yet)

We will wait and see who wins the Nobel Prize and I will be diligently working on trying to get a couple of blog posts out before the end of this month!

September Reading List and Interesting Assorted Material

In this particular blog post, I will write my usual monthly reading list, but I will talk about other assorted material, which will include an update on my series of posts on business cycles and another related post on the (New Keynesian) Phillips Curve.

September Reading List:

1. Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure - Cedric Villani
2. International Dimensions of Monetary Policy - Justin Yifu Lin

The other part of this particular post is about the series of posts on business cycles that I had planned earlier this summer and another related post on the (New Keynesian) Phillips Curve. During the summer, I decided to postpone the series of posts on business cycles as I had a long term project that had attending to, but I will post them gradually throughout this semester as I will definitely have some spare time in order to do so. As for the other related post on the (New Keynesian) Phillips Curve, it is something that has been on my mind all summer. I have reading a series of articles/blog posts and other related material that pertains to the history, the theories and the underlying criticisms of the Phillips Curve and I will attempt to dissect the Phillips Curve from many particular angles. In a relatively long but concise post, I will attempt to investigate the controversial Phillips Curve from both the key concepts within the theory itself and its often interesting policy prescriptions. I have no idea when this post will be completed, but it will probably be up as soon as I have some time to do so.

Rest of Summer (July-August) Reading List

As summer continues, I will post most of my summer reading list on here. This is as opposed to having two separate reading lists for both the months of July and August. I have been busy the last couple of weeks and it will only get busier as we progress to the next couple of weeks, but I will try to post some of my Real Business Cycle Theory articles that I have almost completed. I will try to finish as many of those proceeding articles until something exciting happens at the end of the summer!

Econ Books:
1. Richard Thaler - Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics (Half-way through the book)
2. Fischer Black - Business Cycles and Equilibrium (re-read for the 2nd time in preparation for the blog post)
3. Thomas Piketty - Capital in the Twenty First Century (Continued reading and reading the rebuttals as well)
4. Adam Smith - Theory of Moral Sentiments
5. Joseph Schumpeter - Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
6. Milton Friedman - Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History
7. Ha Joon Chang - Economics: The User's Guide

Non-Econ Books:
1. Karl Popper - The Poverty of Historicism
2. Alexis De Tocqueville - Democracy in America (re-read)

June Reading List

Before I post my long delayed first blog post in my Business Cycle series, here is my June Reading list! There might be some overlaps with other months as I have not finished all of the books on every list.

Books:
1. Business Cycles and Equilibrium - Fischer Black (Continued reading)
2. Capital in the Twenty First Century - Thomas Piketty (Continued reading)
3. Richard Thaler - Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
4. Francis Fukuyama - The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution (re-reading final couple of chapters)

Articles:
1. The series on China in the Foreign Affairs Magazine May/June 2015 Issue
2. Various assorted articles on which I will be writing on my series on Business Cycles. Please refer to the articles when I do post them. (Excuse me for the delay.)

May Reading List

As I work on my series of posts on Business Cycles and other related posts, including one that I will write as I read through several of Fischer Black's books and articles (which hopefully won't be too terribly long), I also have other books to read. I haven't completely finished reading and reviewing some of the stuff from the previous months, so this list is perhaps shorter than what it should be.

Econ Books:
1. Exploring General Equilibrium - Fischer Black
2. Business cycles and Equilibrium - Fischer Black
3. Modern Business Cycle Theory - Robert J. Barro (editor)
4. The Analytical Foundations of Marxian Economic Theory - John E. Roemer

Non-Econ Books:
1. The Feynman Lectures on Physics - Richard Feynman (Helps to keep the brain nice and sharp!)

Despite the long delay, the first post on the series of posts on my Business Cycle Series will come out very soon. Keep following!

April Reading List

As I am currently writing my latest blog post that will likely be posted by tomorrow afternoon, here's my April reading list. I have added selected Econ papers that I will be reading as well:

Econ books:
1. Essays on the Great Depression - Ben Bernanke
2. Innovations in Macroeconomics - Paul J. J. Welfens
3. Monetary policy and the great inflation in the United States : the Federal Reserve and the failure of macroeconomic policy, 1965-1979 - Thomas Mayer
4. Inflation, Unemployment and Monetary Policy - Robert Solow / Alvin Hansen Symposium on Public Policy 1995

Econ papers:
1. Country Solidarity in Sovereign Crises - Jean Tirole
2. Liquid Bundles (working copy)- Jean Tirole / Emmanuel Farhi
3. Shops and the City: Evidence on Local Externalities and Local Government Policy from Big-Box Bankruptcies - Daniel Shoag / Stan Veuger
4. Social Norms and the Enforcement of Laws (working copy) - Daron Acemoglu / Matthew Jackson
5. Money Doctors - Nicola Gennaioli / Andrei Schleifer / Robert Vishny

There are more than these econ papers that I might read this month and I have already read the Acemoglu paper, but these ones are particularly recommended as they're highly interesting.

March Reading List

It has been a very snowy and bitterly cold February, so I got a lot of reading done this month, but here's my reading list for March, of which I have not included some of the books I have not yet started on the previous two months.

Econ Books:
1. Theory of the Leisure Class - Thorstein Veblen (re-read)
2. Capital in the Twenty-First Century - Thomas Piketty (reading it thoroughly)
Non-Econ Books:
3. The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution - Francis Fukuyama
4. The Limits of State Power - Wilhelm Humboldt
5. The Complexity of Cooperation - Robert M. Axelrod

February Reading List

I have decided to post my February reading list in the midst of this gargantuan snowstorm of epic proportions.

Econ books:

1. Jeffrey Sachs - The End of Poverty

2. Paul Ormerod - The Death of Economics

Non-Econ books:

1. Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
2. Robert Nozick - Anarchy, State and Utopia (Started reading this book last month)

Due to the lack of adequate snow travel accommodations, I will most likely be home tomorrow. It has been a very busy month on my end and I didn't necessarily have time to finish all of my readings, so this is the reason why the reading list for this month is much shorter than the previous several months.

January Reading List

It's not January yet, but I've decided to post my January reading list. This is included with a couple of books I have not managed to finish this month.

Economics Books:
1. William Easterly     - The Tyranny of Experts
2. William Easterly     - The Elusive Quest for Growth
3. Carl Menger            - Principles of Economics (re-read)
4. Kenneth Pomeranz  - The Great Divergence

Other Books
1. Richard Feynman    - Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
2. David Hume            - A Treatise of Human Nature (re-read)

December Reading List

It's been a while since I last posted in this blog, but I will post my December Reading List!

Econ Books:
1. Why Nations Fail - Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
2. On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation - David Ricardo

Non-Econ Books:
1. The End of History and the Last Man - Francis Fukuyama
2. Theory of Games and Economic Behavior - John Von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern (re-read)
3. Problems of Philosophy - Bertrand Russell

I will try to write a couple of articles early next week to make up for the lost time!

Johan's November Reading List

Since I will be mostly likely very busy for the rest of this month and most of next month, I've decided to post my November reading list! There are 4 books I'm planning on reading and not all of them are Econ-related.

1. Avinash Dixit, Barry J Nalebuff - Thinking Strategically
2. Roger B Myerson - Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict
3. Thomas Piketty - Capital in the Twenty-First Century
4. Francis Fukuyama - Political Order And Political Decay