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Hazlitt, Henry / 1978 / "Economics in One Lesson" / a .pdf / 144 pages / has a good reading list
on the last page of the book. (reproduced below) / This book is worthwhile -- primarily because it
covers a lot of ground in a relatively few pages.
The main problem with the book is that it has no "Table Of Contents" or Index.
That makes it difficult to read efficiently.
See links to the following first seven at:
<< http://www.primeronmoney.com/Classic%20books%20on%20economics%20before%20Adam%20Smith.html >>
"Those who are interested in working through the economic classics might find it
most profitable to do this in the reverse of their historical order. Presented in this
order, the chief works to be consulted, with the dates of their first editions, are:
(1) Philip Wick-steed, The Common Sense of Political Economy, 1911;
(2) John Bates Clark, The Distribution of Wealth, 1899;
(3) Eugen von BohmBawerk, The Positive Theory of Capital, 1888;
(4) Karl Menger, Principles of Economics, 1871;
(5) W. Stanley Jevons, The Theory of Political Economy, 1871;
(6) John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy, 1848;
(7) David Ricardo, Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, 1817; and
(8) Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776. Economics broadens out in a hundred directions.
Whole libraries have been written on specialized fields alone, such as these 25:
(1) agricultural economics,
(2) business cycles,
(3) capitalism and socialism,
(4) competition and monopoly,
(5) foreign trade and foreign exchange,
(6) government control,
(7) history, economic
(8) housing,
(9) interest and capital,
(10) markets,
(11) mathematical economics,
(12) money and banking,
(13) poverty
(14) prices,
(15) profits,
(16) public utilities,
(17) rent,
(18) social insurance,
(19) statistics,
(20) studies of special industries
(21) taxation and public finance,
(22) wages and labor relations,
(23) value and utility,
(24) wealth
(25) wealth and poverty,
But no one will everproperly understand any of these specialized fields unless he
has first of all acquired a firm grasp of basic economic principles and the complex
interrelationship of all economic factors and forces. When he has done this by his
reading in general economics, he can be trusted to find the right books in his
special field of interest."