Udayan Roy

Supplementary Material: The books listed below will not be explicitly discussed in this course. However, they are not only authoritative, they are also very informal, easy to read, and, at times, quite funny. I recommend them very highly to you.

Getting It Right: markets and choices in a free society by Robert J. Barro, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996, ISBN 026202408X.

The Economics of Life: from baseball to affirmative action to immigration, how real-world issues affect our everyday life by Gary S. Becker and Guity Nashat Becker, Mc-Graw Hill, New York, New York, 1997, ISBN 0070059438.

From Here to Economy: A Shortcut to Economic Literacy by Todd G. Buchholz, Penguin Books, New York, NY, 1996, ISBN 0-452-27482-6.

New Ideas From Dead Economists: An Introduction to Modern Economic Thought by Todd G. Buchholz, Penguin Books, New York, NY, 1990, ISBN 0-452-26533-9.

Hidden Order: the economics of everyday life by David Friedman, HarperCollins, New York, NY, 1996, ISBN 0-88730-885-6.

The Age of DiminishedExpectations, Third Edition, by Paul Krugman, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1997, ISBN 0-262-61092-2.

The Armchair Economist: Economics and Everyday Life by Steven E. Landsburg, The Free Press (Simon and Schuster), New York, NY, 1994, ISBN 0-02-917776-6.

Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics by P.J. O'Rourke, Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 1999, ISBN 0871137607.

The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor--and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car! by Tim Harford, Oxford University Press, USA, 2005, ISBN: 0195189779.

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, William Morrow, ISBN: 006073132X.