Textbooks
Introductory Macroeconomics and Microeconomics Textbooks
Economics: A New Introduction by Hugh Stretton (2000).
Economics: A Tool for Critically Understanding Society (8th ed.) by Tom Riddell, Jean Shackelford, Steve Stamos, and Geoffrey Schneider (2007).
Economics: An Introduction to Traditional and Progressive Views (7th ed.) by E.K. Hunt and Howard J. Sherman (2008).
Microeconomics in Context by Neva Goodwin, Julie A. Nelson, Frank Ackerman, and Thomas Weisskopf (2008).
Macroeconomics in Context by Neva Goodwin; Julie A. Nelson; Jonathan Harris; With contributions by Brian Roach, GDAE, Tufts; and James Devine, Loyola Marymount University (2008).
Neoclassical and Institutionalist Perspectives on Economic Behavior: Microeconomics by Susan Himmelweit, Roberto Simonetti, and Andrew Trigg (2001). (Intermediate-level text.)
Reintroducing Macroeconomics: A Critical Approach by Steven Mark Cohn (2007).
The Roller Coaster Economy: Financial Crisis, Great Recession, and the Public Option by Howard J. Sherman (2010).
Understanding Capitalism: Competition, Command, and Change (3rd ed.) by Samuel Bowles, Richard Edwards, and Frank Roosevelt (2005).
Introduction to Political Economy
International Political Economy: Contrasting World Views by Raymond C. Miller (2008).
Introduction to Political Economy (5th ed.) by Charles Sackrey and Geoffrey Schneider (2008).
Radical Political Economy by Charles A. Barone (2004).
The Political Economics of Capitalism by Mayo Toruno (2003).
Understanding Capitalism: Competition, Command, and Change (3rd ed.) by Samuel Bowles, Richard Edwards, and Frank Roosevelt (2005).
Introduction to Radical Economics
Political Economy and Contemporary Capitalism: Radical Perspectives on Economic Theory and Policy edited by Ron Baiman, Heather Boushey, and Dawn Saunders (2000).
Political Economy for the 21st Century: Contemporary Views on the Trend of Economics edited by Charles J. Whalen (1996).
Radical Political Economy by Charles A. Barone (2004).
Understanding Capitalism (Bowles, Edwards, and Roosevelt (2005)
Introduction to Institutionalist Economics
The Discretionary Economy: A Normative Theory of Political Economy by Marc R. Tool (2000).
Economics and the Public Purpose by John Kenneth Galbraith (1973).
The Theory of Economic Progress by Clarence E. Ayres. 1996 Internet edition available at http://www.orgs.bucknell.edu/afee/InstReadings/AYRES_TEP/TEPHome.htm.
The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen (1973).
Introduction to African American Economics
African Americans in the U.S. Economy edited by Cecilia A. Conrad, John Whitehead, Patrick Mason, and James Stewart (2005).
Leading Issues in Black Political Economy edited by Thomas D. Boston (2002).
Readings in Black Political Economy edited by John Whitehead and Cobie Kwasi Harris (1999).
Introduction to Feminist Economics
Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics edited by Marianne A. Ferber and Julie A. Nelson (1993b). Second edition: Feminist Economics Today: Beyond Economic Man edited by Marianne A. Ferber and Julie A. Nelson (2003).
The Elgar Companion to Feminist Economics edited by Janice Peterson and Margaret Lewis (2001).
The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values by Nancy Folbre (2001).
Out of the Margin: Feminist Perspectives on Economics edited by Edith Kuiper and Jolande Sap with Susan Feiner, Notburga Ott and Zafiris Tzannatos (1995).
Introduction to Post Keynesian Economics
Alternative Principles of Economics by Stanley Bober (2001). (Intermediate level.)
Introduction to Post Keynesian Economics (2003) by Frederic S. Lee (available electronically from the author, leefs@umkc.edu. For a more advanced discussion see Lee’s Post Keynesian Price Theory (1998).
A New Guide to post Keynesian Economics edited by Richard Holt and Steven Pressman (2001).
Introduction to Marxist Economics
Economics: Marxian Versus Neoclassical by Richard D. Wolff and Stephen A. Resnick (1987).
Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century by Harry Braverman (1974).
Marxism for and Against by Robert L. Heilbroner (1980).
The Theory of Capitalist Development: Principles of Marxian Political Economy by Paul M. Sweezy (1968).
Introduction to Ecological Economics
Ecological Economics: Principles and Applications by Herman E. Daly and Joshua Farley (2004).
For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future by Herman E. Daly and John B. Cobb Jr. (1994).
An Introduction to Ecological Economics by Robert Costanza, John Cumberland, Herman Daly, Robert Goodland, and Richard Norgaard (1997).
Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by E.F. Schumacher (1973).
Introduction to Social Economics
Economics for the Common Good: Two Centuries of Social Economic Thought in the Humanistic Tradition by Mark A. Lutz (1999).
The Moral Dimension: Toward a New Economics by Amitai Etzioni (1988).
Teaching the Social Economics Way of Thinking: Selected Papers from the Ninth World Congress of Social Economics edited by Edward J. O’Boyle (1999).
Multiple Views on Issues in Economics
Economic Issues Today: Alternative Approaches by Robert B. Carson, Wade L. Thomas, Jason Hecht (2005).
Taking Sides Edited by Thomas R. Swartz, Frank J. Bonello (2002)
More Advanced Discussions of Heterodox Critiques of and
Alternatives to Neoclassical Theory
Debunking Economics: The Naked Emperor of the Social Sciences by Steve Keen (2002).
Foundations of Economics: A Beginner’s Companion by Yanis Varoufakis (1998).
“Frontier Issues in Economic Thought.” This is a collection of six edited volumes by researchers associated with the Global Development and Environment Institute. Each volume contains about fifty to one hundred short summaries of key book chapters and journal articles presenting largely heterodox views of the volume’s topic area. The individual volume titles are: A Survey of Ecological Economics, The Consumer Society, Human Well-Being and Economic Goals, The Changing Nature of Work, The Political Economy of Inequality, and A Survey of Sustainable Development: Social and Economic Dimensions.
