For even more research:
Federal Election Laws and Regulations (2012 ed.). (2012). Charlottesville: Matthew Bender & Company, Inc., a member of the LexisNexis Group.
Acemoglu, D. (2009). Introduction to Modern Economic Growth. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
graduate level textbook on what drives growth of national economies and the differenties in economic levels and growth rates between national economies. Lots of math!
Arthur, W. B. (2009). The Nature of Technology. New York: Free Press.
Brilliant analysis of what technology is and how it evolves.
Aunger, R. (Ed.). (2000). darwinizing culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Collection of contributed chapters from various scholars on memetic as a science. Some very good material. Some less so.
Bartlett, B. (2012). The Benefit and The Burden. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Bernstein, P. L. (2008). A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Bernstein, P. L. (2012). The Power of Gold. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Blinder, A. S. (1998). Central Banking in Theory and Practice. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
A collection of lectures on central banking by a leading academic who was also former Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve.
Bowles, S. (2004). Micoreconomics Behaviour, Institutions, and Evolution. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Graduate level microeconomics textbook that takes an evolutionary social science and complexity perspective to microeconomics.
Brynjolfsson, E., & McAfee, A. (2011). Race Against The Machine: How the Digital Reolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy. Lexington: Digital Frontier Press.
Clements, J. (2012). Corporations are not People. San Francisco: Berret-Koehler Publishers Inc.
Colander, D. (2000). The Complexity Vision and the Teaching of Economics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc.
A collection of papers on the intersection of Santa Fe Institute style complexity science and economics as well as discussions on how to include a complexity perspective in the teaching of economics.
Coram, R. (November 2002). Boyd. New York: Little, Brown and Company.
Bio of John Boyd, inventor of OODA (observe, orient, decide, and act) strategy framework.
DeLanda, M. (2011). Philosophy and Simulation. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group.
Examination of the concept of emergence from the point of view of simulation
Distin, K. (2005). The Selfish Meme. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Useful introduction to the concept of memetics
Fergusson, A. (2010). When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany. New York: PublicAffairs.
Fisher, I. (2011). The Money Illusion. Snowball Publishing.
Subtle but simple explanation of the nature of money.
Ford, M. (2009). The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future. Acculant Publishing.
Friedman, M. (1960). A Program for Monetary Stability. New York: Fordham University Press.
Friedman, M. (2006). The Optimum Quantity of Money. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers.
Friedman, M. (2007). Milton Friedman on Economics. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
A collection of number of interesting papers/articles by Friedman.
Garrison, R. W. (2001). Time and Money. London: Routledge.
A deep examination into the nature of the coupling of the present to the future through financial instruments.
Godhart, C. (1989). Money, Information, and Uncertainty. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
Godley, W., & Lavoie, M. (2012). Monetary Economics. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Gorton, G. B. (2010). Slapped By the Invisible Hand: The Panic of 2007. New York: Oxford University Press.
Greco Jr., T. H. (2001). Money. White River Junction: Chelsea Green Publishing Company.
Theory, history, and methods of creating alternative currencies.
Greco Jr., T. H. (2009). The End of Money. White River Junction: Chelsea Green Publishing.
Ideas on how money in the state sponsored sense, can be replaced by private competing information systems
Hayek, F. (2007). The Road to Serfdom. Routledge, London: The University of Chicago Press.
Examination of freedom versus equality in the form of a critique of Socialism.
Heffernan, S. (2005). Modern Banking. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
MBA level textbook on banking. Broad but bland. Little on the history of banking. A Status Quo view of banking.
Ingham, G. (2004). The Nature of Money. Cambridge: Polity Press Ltd.
Jefferson, T. (1984). Jefferson Writings. (M. D. Peterson, Ed.) New York: The Library of America.
Complete set of Jefferson’s published writings.
Keen, S. (2011). Debunking Economics. London: Zed Books.
Interesting but controversial assault on Neo-Classical Economics.
Keynes, J. M. (2009). The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. Orlando: Signalman Publishing.
Deep and elegant and surprisingly readable presentation of the Keynesian model of economics.
Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (1980). Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Interesting but not entirely convincing argument that much of our thought is deeply impacted by the metaphors that we use.
Lannoye, V. (2011). The Story of Money for Understanding Economics. Vincent Lannoye.
Good history of money from prehistoric times to present
Lowenstein, D. H., Hasen, R. L., & Tokaji, D. P. (2008). Election Law. Durham: Carolina Academic Press.
Luttwak, E. N. (2001). Strategy. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Good overall instruction to the concept of Strategy from a military perspective. Many historical examples.
Madison, J., Hamilton, A., & Jay, J. (n.d.). The Federalist Papers. Tribeca Books.
Michaels, F. (2011). Monoculture: How One Story is Changing Everything. Canada: Red Clover Press.
Morris, C. R. (2008). The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown. New York: PublicAffairs.
Murray, C. (2012). Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010. New York: Crown Forum.
Newberg, A., & Waldman, M. (2006). Why We Believe What We Believe. New York: Free Press.
At the intersection of neuroscience and belief.
North, P. (2006). Alternative Currency Movements as a Challenge to Globalisation? Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Limited.
Look at a LETS alternative currency system in Manchester UK. Some broader issues examined.
Paine, T. (1995). Paine – Collected Writings. (E. Foner, Ed.) New York: The Library of America.
Paine’s classics: Common Sense, The Crisis, Rights of Man, The Age of Reason plus various pamphlets, articles, etc.
Paul, R., & Lehrman, L. (2012). The Case for Gold. Important Books.
Peddie, J. T. (1928). The Flaw in the Economic System. London: Longmans, Green & Co., LTD.
old, but detailed attack on the gold standard
Popper, K. R. (1966). The Open Society And Its Enemies. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Deep philosophy on the superiority of open and transparent societies. Formally structured as a crtiique of Plato’s Republic.
Reich, R. B. (2012). Beyond Outrage. New York: Vintage Books.
Rothbard, M. N. (2008). The Mystery of Banking. Auburn: Ludwig von Mises Institute.
Austrian perspective on money.
Rothkopf, D. (2011). Power, Inc. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
An unusual history that commingles a state and markets view. Extensive discussion of multinational corporations as competitive with states. Final chapter contrasts “American Capitalism” with “5 Other Capitalisms”: “Japanese Capitalism”, “Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics”, “Indian and Brazilian Democratic Development Capitalism”, “German, French, and Scandinavian Eurocapitalism”, “Singaporean Entrepreneurial Small Market Capitalism”
Rowbotham, M. (1998). Grip of Death. Oxfordshire: Jon Carpenter Publishing.
Radical perspective on debt, and money
Sachs, J. D. (2012). The Price of Civilization. New York: Random House.
Sandmo, A. (2011). Economics Evolving. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Shirley, J. (2012). Everything is Broken. Prime Books.
Shubik, M. (1999). The Theory of Money and Financial Institutions (Vol. I). Cambridge: The MIT Press.
Part 1 of Shubik’s massive investigation of the phenomenon of Money. He starts out by defining very simple money like systems, and then proceeds to make them more realistic. In a useful twist, he defines all his examples as “games” that can actually be played by people. This helps make abstract ideas more concrete.
Shubik, M. (1999). The Theory of Money and Financial Institutions (Vol. II). Cambridge: The MIT Press.
Part 2 of Shubik’s massive investigation of the phenomenon of Money. More comprehensive and realistic examples
Shubik, M. (2010). The Theory of Money and Financial Institutions (Vol. III). Cambridge: The MIT Press.
Part 3 of Shubik’s massive investigation of the phenomenon of Money and Finance. Models Institutions such as Commerical Banks, Securities Markets, and Central Banking, once again in the form of playable (aty least in theory) games.
Skousen, W. C. (1970). The Naked Capitalist. Cutchogue: Buccaneer Books.
Tesfatsion, L., & Judd, K. L. (Eds.). (2006). Handbook of Computational Economics. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Tomlinson, J. (1993). Honest Money. Oxfordshire: Helix.
Proposals to replace Fractional Reserve Banking
Turchin, P. (2003). Historical Dynamics. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
A quantitative approach to understanding the rise and fall of states and empires.
von Mises, L. (2009). The Theory of Money and Credit. Orlando: Signalman Publishing.
Austrian perspective on money
White, L. H. (1989). Competition and Currency. New York: New York University Press.
White, L. H. (2012). The Clash of Economic Ideas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Zarlenga, S. (2002). The Lost Science of Money. Valatie: American Monetary Institute.
Comprehensive “heretical view” of money and banking. Highly recommended!