Pranab Bardhan's Top Book Recommendations

Pranab BardhanI chose this one as representative of many of his ideas. (Source)

Pranab BardhanThis book was about trying to understand how, while there are processes inherent in economic growth which lead to more inequality, one can achieve growth as well as better equality. (Source)

Pranab BardhanHe was the first Nobel Prize-winner in the subject of development economics. (Source)

Pranab BardhanHe is one of the early proponents of what in recent years has been revived as the political-economy approach to development. (Source)

Elon MuskAdam Smith FTW obv. (Source)

Barack ObamaObama, unsurprisingly, appears to be more drawn to stories sympathetic to the working classes than is McCain. Obama cites John Steinbeck’s “In Dubious Battle,” about a labor dispute; Robert Caro’s “Power Broker,” about Robert Moses; and Studs Terkel’s “Working.” But he also includes Adam Smith’s “Wealth of Nations” and “Theory of Moral Sentiments” on his list. (Source)

Neil deGrasse TysonWhich books should be read by every single intelligent person on planet? [...] The Wealth of Nations (Smith) [to learn that capitalism is an economy of greed, a force of nature unto itself]. If you read all of the above works you will glean profound insight into most of what has driven the history of the western world. (Source)