Brad DeLong describes What should be on an “Economics and Philosophy” reading list?:
- Jacques Le Goff, Your Money or Your Life: Economy and Religion in the Middle Ages.
- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, selections.
- John Locke, Second Treatise of Government.
- Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments.
- Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Jeremy Bentham, Principles of Morals and Legislation.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty.
- Hal Varian, Intermediate Microeconomics (chs. 29-35).
- Friedrich Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty.
- Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia.
- James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock, The Calculus of Consent.
- John Rawls, “Justice as Fairness.”
- Kenneth Arrow, Social Choice and Individual Values.
- Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom.
- David Gauthier, “The Social Contract as Ideology”, Philosophy and Public Affairs.
- Jon Elster, “The Market and the Forum: Three Varieties of Political Theory”, in Elster and Hylland, eds., Foundations of Social Choice Theory.
- Bernard Williams, “The Idea of Equality”, Philosophy , Politics and Society 2nd Series.
- Amartya Sen, Equality of What?.
- Steven Shavell, Economic Analysis of Welfare Economics, Morality and the Law.
- Tibor Scitovsky, The Joyless Economy.
- William Baumol, Welfare Economics and the Theory of the State.