Mankiw's frosh reading list

For those blog readers who might be interested in what the seminar will be reading, here is the list of books:

• The Worldly Philosophers, by Robert Heilbroner
• Spin-Free Economics, by Nariman Behravesh
• Capitalism and Freedom, by Milton Friedman
• Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff, by Arthur Okun
• Nudge, by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
• The Return of Depression Economics, by Paul Krugman
• Animal Spirits, by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller
• The Myth of the Rational Voter, by Bryan Caplan
• Economic Gangsters, by Raymond Fisman and Edward Miguel
• The Price of Everything, by Russell Roberts