Summer Reading List and more 2020
The Great Influenza
By John M. Barry
This summer one should definitely read about the Flu Pandemic of 1918. This is one of the classic books. - Chris Meissner
From Here to Equality
By William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen
From the History of of race and racism reading list published by the American Economic Association. - Janine Wilson
Plagues and Peoples
By William H. McNeill
An epidemiological history of the world, puts what we are living through in perspective. -Alan Taylor
The Three-Body Problem
By Cixin Liu
Three Body Problem (trilogy) The book is much more than sci-fi and is breathtaking to the say the least in its scope. – Sanjay Singh
Making Money
by Terry Pratchett
Really I would recommend any/all of the Discworld novels and wouldn't actually recommend starting with this one (I would start with Guards! Guards!). But this one is about a con man being put in charge of a central bank. And it features a Phillips Economics Computer (google it). So it's a good fit for this reading list. And in general Terry Pratchett was brilliant and his books capture (and satire) so much of what is going on in the world today – Arman Rezaee
Administrative Burden
By Pamela Herd and Donald P. Moynihan
Recommended by Marianne Bitler
The Man Who Solved The Market
By Gregory Zuckerman
Highly recommended by Sanjay Singh
Good Economics for Hard Times
By Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee
Work by two of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics recipients. Work that gives us hope that there can be progress in the fight against poverty. – Janine Wilson
Norwegian Wood
by Haruki Murakami
The best writer alive (in my opinion) wrote this masterpiece about life, love and the desperation of mental illness.
-Andres Carvajal
Love in the Times of Cholera
by Gabriel García Marquez
Not because he was Colombian, but I have never read anyone so able to describe a reality so well that you feel you can see it, no matter how strange that reality is. - Andres Carvajal
Scarcity:
Why Having Too Little Means So Much
by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir
This is an engaging and thorough book on how living in poverty affects decision making- Marianne Page
The Land of Green Plums
by Hertha Müller
With prose so beautiful that it reads like poetry, Müller tells us vividly of the of the cost that the young pay when a society is ruled by an authoritarian ruler.
- Andres Carvajal
America’s Forgotten Pandemic
By Alfred W. Crosby
This is also one of the classic books that covers the Flu Pandemic of 1918.- Chris Meissner
The Accidental President
By AJ Baime
Nonfiction that reads like fiction. A rich and interesting telling of the story of the US at the end of WWII. – Janine Wilson
Scene on Radio: Season 2: “Seeing White” exploring the origins of the concept of “whiteness” and its role in the consolidation of power. - Janine Wilson
Great briefs to follow. Recommended by Marianne Bitler
When I talked with undergraduate students, they did not know that our library has a collection of online books and online journals. For example:
https://link.springer.com https://www.taylorfrancis.com https://www.cambridge.org/core/
The students can access the websites via VPN from their home as well. – Takuya Ura
