People ask me who and what they should read to get a handle on economics. Here I provide 3 lists, one of K-12 scholarship, another with some econ texts I recommend and a third with economists and econ groups to know because they continually produce brilliant work.
K-12s
Everything Chris Arthur writes on financial literacy https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lrQAMAcAAAAJ&hl=en
Joshi, P., & Marri, A. R. (2006). An economics methods course?: Challenges of teaching an economics education methods course for secondary social studies preservice teachers. The Social Studies, 97(5), 197–202.
King, L., & Finley, S. (2015). Race is a highway: Towards a critical race approach in economics classrooms. in Chandler. In P. T. Chandler (Ed.), Doing race in social studies: Critical perspectives (pp. 195–228). Information Age.
Marglin, S. A. (2012). Saving the children-A rant. The Journal of Economic Education, 43, 283–292.
Miller, R. C. (1993). In order to save the world for human habitation, we must stop teaching economics! Theory & Research in Social Education, 21(1), 25–48.
Myers, J. & Stocks, J. (2010). Fostering the Common Good: The Portrayal of the Social Economy in Secondary Business and Economics Textbooks. Journal of Social Studies Research, 34(2), 266-303.
Neumann, R. (2012). Teaching the great recession. The Social Studies, 103(2), 49-56.
Neumann, R. (2012). Socialism in High School Social Studies Textbooks. The Social Studies, 103, (1).
Neumann, R. (2014). The Treatment of Wealth Distribution by High School Economics. The Social Studies, 105, (6) 278-282.
Romanish, B. (1983). Modern secondary economics textbooks and ideological bias. Theory and Research in Social Education, 11(1).
Shanks, N. G. (2018). A dominant narrative in economics?: Preservice teachers and pluralism in a social studies methods class. Journal of Social Science Education, 17(3), 19–33.
Shanks, N. G. & Hall, D. (2020). “Hope in the dismal science: A race-centered redirection of economics curriculum.” In A. M. Hawkman & S. B. Shear (Eds.) Marking the ‘invisible’: Articulating whiteness in social studies education (pp. 107-138). Information Age.
Shanks’ body of work https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3HTY7qsAAAAJ&hl=en
Shanks, N. (2019). Against ‘economic man’: A feminist challenge to prevailing neoclassical norms in K-12 economics education. Theory and Practice in Social Education, 47(4), 577-603.
Sober, T. L. (2017). Teaching about economics and moneyed interests in twenty-first century democracy. In C. Wright-Maley & T. Davis (Eds.), Teaching for democracy in an age of economic disparity (pp. 79–94). Routledge
Swalwell, K., Lambert, M, & Olivia, J (2019). Teaching wealthy children about economic inequality. In Wilcox and Brant (Eds.) It’s Being Done in Social Studies: Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality in the Pre/K–12 Curriculum, (pp. 75–84).
Vickery, A., Holmes, K., & Brown, A. (2015). Excavating Critical Racial Knowledge in Economics and World Geography. In P. T. Chandler (Ed.), Doing Race in Social Studies: Critical Perspectives (pp. 253–282). Information Age Publishing.
Whitlock, A & Fox, K (2014). One hen: Using children’s literature in project based learning. Social Studies and the Young Learner, 26(4), 26-29.
Wright-Maley, C. and Davis, T. (2017). Teaching for Democracy in an Age of Economic Disparity. Routledge
Economics in general
The works of Robert Bullard https://drrobertbullard.com/books/
Nina Banks. https://www.bucknell.edu/fac-staff/nina-banks
Banks, N (2020). “Black Women in the United States and Unpaid Collective Work: Theorizing the Community as a Site of Production” Review of Black Political Economy
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0034644620962811#articleShareContainer
Deleuze, G. (1992). Postscript on the societies of control. October, 59, 3-7.
Earle, J., Moran, C., & Ward-Perkins, Z. (2016). The Econocracy: The perils of leaving economics to the experts. Manchester University Press.
Garnett, R.F. (1999). What do economists know? New economics of knowledge. Routledge.
George, D. (2013) The rhetoric of the right: Language change and the spread of the market. Routledge
Jones, Kimberly “How we can win” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llci8MVh8J4&t=241s
Kruse, K.M. (2005). White flight. Atlanta and the making of modern conservatism. Princeton University Press.
Kwak, J. (2017). Economism: Bad economics and the rise of inequality. https://economism.net/
Lazzarato, M. (2015). Governing by debt. Semiotext(e).
McRobbie, A. (2011). Reflections on feminism, immaterial labour, and the post-Fordist regime. New Formations, 70, 60-76. https://doi.org/10.3898/NEWF.70.04.2010
Opoku-Agyeman, A.G. (2020). Do black economists matter? Economic Policy Institute. https://www.epi.org/blog/do-black-economists-matter-the-media-erasure-of-black-economic-voices-hurts-the-hardest-hit-communities-by-the-pandemic-and-society-at-large/
Pouncy, C. R. P. (2002). Institutional economics and critical race/LatCrit theory: The need for a critical ‘raced’ economics. Rutgers Law Review, 54(4), 841–852.
Pouncy, C.R.P. (2002). Economic Justice and Economic Theory: Limiting the Reach of
Neoclassical Ideology. University of Florida Journal of Law and Public Policy, 14. https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/ufpp14&div=8&g_sent=1&casa_token=kqBI23yM-p8AAAAA:swi112RvO87YYcyiZwjdmy56mvi6vdIc17doxUTh_Aujnyt079Q4Dd1OOHGMQkrtu7CevjnGznY&collection=journals
Pouncy, C.R.P. (2002). The Rational Rogue: Neoclassical Economic Ideology in the
Regulation of the Financial Professional, Vermont Law Review 263. https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/vlr26&div=16&g_sent=1&casa_token=Q2Q7w2ptM4gAAAAA:oE0-afM8j6JNXOs0sd0FgD9k-CiY6Jagmcb-k9NT_lxTpOQo3nvqA_f5pawbFyRfWHX5l9Oc0sg&collection=journals
Ruccio, D.F. & Amariglio, J. (2003). Postmodern moments in modern economics. Princeton University Press
Sassen, S. (2018). Finance is an extractive sector: Interview with Saskia Sassen. In S. De Cauwer (ed.) Critical Theory at a Crossroads. Columbia University Press (pp. 113-133).
Terranova, T. (2000). Free labor: Producing culture for the digital economy. Social Text, 18(2), 33-58.
Thornton, T.B. (2017). From economics to political economy: The problems, promises and and solutions of pluralist economics. Routledge
Works by Katy Swalwell https://www.education.iastate.edu/directory/profile.php?u=swalwell&embedded=true
Yale guide to women in econ https://guides.library.yale.edu/womenineconomics
Economists to know:
Darrick Hamilton, Professor, Ohio State https://www.newschool.edu/milano/faculty/darrick-hamilton/
The Sadie Collective website and open letter on race and the economics profession https://www.sadiecollective.org/
William Spriggs, Chief economist AFL-CIO and Howard U. professor of economics https://aflcio.org/policy-experts/william-e-spriggs
See Spriggs’s Open Letter “Is now a teachable moment for economists?” https://www.minneapolisfed.org/~/media/assets/people/william-spriggs/spriggs-letter_0609_b.pdf?la=en
Jacova Williams, RAND Corporation https://www.rand.org/blog/2020/09/laid-off-more-hired-less-black-workers-in-the-covid.html
D-Econ group (Diversify and Decolonize econ) https://d-econ.org/
Devika Dutt https://sites.google.com/view/devikadutt/home
Phyllis Wallace, first woman to receive a doctorate of economics at Yale and first woman tenured at MIT’s Sloan school of management http://iwer.mit.edu/about/iwer-pioneers/phyllis-a-wallace/
Jane Yellen, former chair of the Federal Reserve Board (profile of featured Yale PhDs) https://economics.yale.edu/news/women-yale-economics#sthash.11iRz5Pk.dpbs
Sadie Alexander, America’s first Black economist https://www.npr.org/2020/06/26/883995581/sadie-alexander-americas-first-black-economist
The 1619 project podcast episodes https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1619/id1476928106
Black Lives Matter and The Economics Profession ft. Carolina Alves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFdUYZfBcjo&feature=youtu.be
Yanis Varoufakis https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/
Deirdre McCloskey https://www.deirdremccloskey.com/
Levon Blue https://staff.qut.edu.au/staff/levon.blue (financial literacy and indigenous perspectives)
Laura Elizabeth Pinto (critical financial literacy) http://laurapinto.weebly.com/about.html
Max Haiven (2017) “The Uses of Financial Literacy: Financialization, the Radical Imagination, and the Unpayable Debts of Settler Colonialism” https://read.dukeupress.edu/cultural-politics/article-abstract/13/3/348/133010
