Kamiakin High School

Summer Reading 2013

AP Microeconomics and AP Macroeconomics

 

Suggested Summer Reading (Not Required)

 

1. Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science by Charles Wheelan. ISBN: 978-0393337648

2. New Ideas From Dead Economists: An Introduction to Modern Economic Thought by Todd G. Buchholz. ISBN: 978-0452288447

3. The Worldly Philosophers by Robert L. Heilbroner. ISBN: 978-0684862149

4. Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy by Pietra Rivoli.ISBN: 978-0470287163

5. Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power by John Steele Gordon ISBN: 978-0060505127

6. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson ISBN: 978-0143116172

7. The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford ISBN: 9780345494016

8. The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World by Tim HarfordISBN: 978-0812977875

9. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein ISBN: 978-0143115267

10. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell ISBN: 978-0316346627

11. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner ISBN: 978-0060731335

12. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell ISBN: 978-0316010665

13. The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman ISBN: 978-0312425074

14. Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers

15. Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner ISBN: 978-0060889586

16. The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and Home by Dan Ariely ISBN: 978-0061995033

17. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell ISBN: 978-0316017923

18. The Big Short by Michael Lewis ISBN: 978-0393338829

19. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely ISBN: 978-0061353246

20. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Annotated Edition by Edwin Lefevre and Jon Markman ISBN: 978-0470481592

21. The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by

22. Nassim Nicholas Taleb ISBN-13: 978-0812973815

23. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman ISBN-13: 978-0374275631

24. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink ISBN-13: 978-1594484803