Is there a recommended reading list for prospective students?
The Economics Department recommends the following short selection of books which prospective students might look at before coming to university, whether or not they have studied economics before. The first five contain relatively non-technical treatments of important economic issues from a variety of viewpoints. • Diane Coyle, Sex, drugs and Economics (Texere) • John McMillan, Reinventing the Bazaar (Norton) • R. Rajan and L. Zingales, Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists (Princeton University Press) • Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom (Oxford University Press) • Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and its Discontents (Penguin) For those interested in the history of economics, the first of the following four books is a popular introduction, written by a leading authority in the field and former UCL lecturer. The others are classic texts. • Roger Backhouse, The Penguin History of Economics (Penguin) • Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (Oxford Paperbacks) • John Stuart Mill, Principles of
