An introduction to Economics

1. Freakanomics: A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything by Daniel Levitt and Stephen Dubner
2. The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
3. The Logic of Life by Tim Harford
4. The Armchair Economist by Steven Landsburg
5. The Economic Naturalist by Robert H Frank
6. Free Lunch by David Smith
7. How Economies grow and why they Crash Again by Peter Schiff

Suitable for those that have already studied AS Level Economics

1. The Truth about Markets by John Kay
2. 50 Economics Ideas That You Really Need To Know by Edmund Conway
3. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
4. Crash Proof 2.0: How to profit from the coming economic collapse by Peter Schiff
5. Fooled by Randomness by Nicholas Taleb
6. The Black Swan by Nicholas Taleb
7. Liars Poker by Michael Lewis
8. Globalization and its Discontents by Josef Stiglitz
9. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
10. No Logo by Naomi Klein
11. Affluenza by Oliver James
12. The Road to Serfdom by Frederick Von Hayek
13. Free to Choose by Milton Friedman
14. Third World America by Arianna Huffington
15. The Anticapitalistic Mentality by Ludwig Von Mises
16. Austrian Economics: A Primer by Eamonn Butler
17. How the West was Lost by Dambisa Moyo
18. The Endgame: The end of the debt supercycle and how it changes everything by John Maudlin
19. When Money Dies: The Nightmare of the Weimar Hyper-Inflation by Adam Fergusson
20. This Time its Different by Reinhart and Rogoff
21. Fantasy Island by Larry Elliot
22. Freefall: Free markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy by Josef Stiglitz
23. Tomorrow’s Gold: Asia’s age of discovery by Marc Faber
24. The Selfish Capitalist by Oliver James
25. A Gift to My Children by Jim Rogers
26. Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins
27. Hoodwinked by John Perkins
28. The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
29. The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict by Josef Stiglitz
30. Trends 2000: How to Prepare for and Profit from the changes of the 21st Century by Gerald Celente

Videos of public lectures give at the LSE: www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/publicEventsVideos/publicEventsVideosPrevious.aspx 
The Economist:www.economist.com/ 
BBC Business webpage:www.bbc.co.uk/news/business/

Liam Hallighan (Daily Telegraph): www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/liamhalligan/

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (Daily Telegraph): www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/

Robert Peston’s blog: www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/

Stephanie Flanders’s blog: www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/stephanieflanders/

World Bank statistical data: http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog

Max Keiser’s blog: http://maxkeiser.com/

Peter Schiff’s (president of Euro-Pacific Capital) video blog: http://www.europac.net/

Von Mises Institute homepage: http://mises.org/

Bank of England’s website:  http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/

CIA (yes, really!) world factbook: www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

Moneyweek: www.moneyweek.com

Marc Faber’s website (The Gloom, Doom and Boom report): www.gloomboomdoom.com/portalgbd/homegbd.cfm

UK National Statistics: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/hub/index.html

Office for National Statistics: www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=19

The International Monetary Fund’s website: www.imf.org/external/index.htm

Naomi Klein’s website: www.naomiklein.org/main

The European Central Bank: www.ecb.int/home/html/index.en.html