10 must-read nonfiction books like Labor Economics by George J. Borjas

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Labor Economics

By: George J. Borjas

3.48

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

George Borjas’ well-received text blends coverage of traditional topics with modern theory and deve…

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1. What the Buddha Taught

By: Walpola Rahula , None

4.18

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

This indispensable volume is a lucid and faithful account of the Buddha’s teachings. “For years,” s… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Whatever is impermanent is dukkha’ (Yad aniccaṃ taṃ dukkhaṃ)."

-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught

"You may see the light, but the light is not the result of your eyesight."

-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught

"Mere suffering exists, but no sufferer is found; The deed are, but no doer is found."

-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught

"The name one gives is inessential. What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by other name would smell as sweet."

-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught

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2. Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach

By: Jeffrey M. Wooldridge

2.90

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

The modern approach of this text recognizes that econometrics has moved from a specialized mathemat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • textbooks
  • economics
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3. The Prince

By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez

3.84

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more

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"Is it better to be loved or feared?"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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4. Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ

By: Giulia Enders , Jill Enders

4.53

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

A cheeky up-close and personal guide to the secrets and science of our digestive system. For too lo… read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. Basic Econometrics 4th Economy Edition

By: Damodar N. Gujarati

2.00

Format: 375 pages,

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  • textbooks
  • economics
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6. The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.37

Format: 796 pages, Paperback

The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry… read more

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"How good life is when one does something good and just!"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"Forgive me... for my love - for ruining you with my love."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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7. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

By: Daron Acemoğlu , James A. Robinson

4.08

Format: 529 pages, Hardcover

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the expert… read more

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"Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the “invisible hand"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

"As mudanças graduais também impediram aventuras em territórios inexplorados. O derrube violento do sistema significa que é necessário construir algo inteiramente novo, em vez daquilo que foi eliminad…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

"Sem o petróleo, os países do Médio Oriente são também todos pobres. (…) Foi a expansão e consolidação do Império Otomano, e é devido ao legado institucional desse império que o Médio Oriente continua…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

"A América do Norte tornou-se mais próspera precisamente porque adotou com entusiasmo as tecnologias e os progressos da Revolução Industrial. (…) A desigualdade no mundo atual é, em grande medida, uma…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

8. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Freakonomics, #1)

By: Steven D. Levitt , Stephen J. Dubner

4.58

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have i… read more

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9. Economic Development

By: Michael P. Todaro , None

4.03

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

This best-selling text offers a unique policy-oriented approach that uses models and concepts to il… read more

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10. Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

By: Abhijit V. Banerjee , Esther Duflo

4.07

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2011 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Best Business Book of the Year Award Billions of g… read more

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11. The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

By: Paul Collier

3.95

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the universally acclaimed and award-winning The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier reveals that fifty … read more

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12. Stoner

By: John Williams , John McGahern

4.34

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming famil… read more

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"Annesi, hayatını sabırla kabullenmişti, katlanmak zorunda olduğu uzun bir anmışçasına."

-John Williams, Stoner

"Within a month he knew that his marriage was a failure; within a year he stopped hoping that it would improve."

-John Williams, Stoner

"But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before."

-John Williams, Stoner

"While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time."

-John Williams, Stoner

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13. Notes from Underground

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Norman Dietz , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky , Boris de Schlœzer , Emanuela Guercetti , None , Donald Fanger , None , None , None

4.17

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between ninet… read more

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"l'homme de la nature et de la verite"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"إذ ما العذاب والألم ... سوى المحرك الوحيد للوعي."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

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14. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

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15. Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

By: Abhijit V. Banerjee

4.23

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
"The bottom line is that, much as in rich countries, we have no accepted recipe for how to make growth happen in poor countries. Even the experts seem to have accepted this. In 2006, the World Bank as…"

-Abhijit V. Banerjee, Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

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16. Central Banking 101

By: Joseph J. Wang

4.41

Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition

Central banking is magic. With a few words, the Fed can lift the stock market out of desperation an… read more

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17. Labor Economics

By: George J. Borjas

3.48

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

George Borjas’ well-received text blends coverage of traditional topics with modern theory and deve… read more

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  • textbooks
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6 must-read economics books like Labor Economics by George J. Borjas

Transform Your Habits

Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach

Jeffrey M. Wooldridge

2.90

Transform Your Habits

Basic Econometrics 4th Economy Edition

Damodar N. Gujarati

2.00

Transform Your Habits

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

Tim Marshall

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

Abhijit V. Banerjee

4.23

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18 must-read fiction books like The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky

Transform Your Habits

The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

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The Plague

Albert Camus , Stuart Gilbert

4.02

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Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford

3.66

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