📚 Economics

Incentives, markets, money and the models that predict people badly — and sometimes exactly right.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject economics in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Economic Consequences of the Peace (Twentieth-Century Classics)	John Maynard Keynes	1919	197
	Das Kapital	Karl Marx	1867	189
	Principles of Political Economy	John Stuart Mill	1848	133
	The Wealth of Nations	Adam Smith	1776	124
	Fields, Factories, and Workshops	Peter Kropotkin	1899	89
	Imperializm, kak vysshai͡a︡ stadii͡a︡ kapitalizma	Vladimir Il’ich Lenin	1900	88
	Economics, an introductory analysis	Paul Anthony Samuelson	1948	72
	Économie internationale	Paul R. Krugman	1987	72
	Misère de la philosophie	Karl Marx	1847	71
	The worldly philosophers	Robert L. Heilbroner	1953	67
	Freakonomics	Steven D. Levitt	2005	63
	Strategic management	Gregory G. Dess	1992	55
	Small Is Beautiful	E. F. Schumacher	1905	50
	Economics	Richard G. Lipsey	1966	50
	The affluent society	John Kenneth Galbraith	1958	49
	Inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations	Adam Smith	1788	41
	Theorie der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung	Joseph Alois Schumpeter	1912	41
	Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft	Max Weber	1922	38
	Microeconomics	Robert S. Pindyck	1988	35
	The Great Transformation	Karl Polanyi	1944	33
	Leadership and Self Deception	The Arbinger Institute	2000	33
	Economics	McGraw-Hill	1998	25
	Superfreakonomics	Steven D. Levitt	2009	25
	The millionaire next door	Thomas J. Stanley	1996	21
	Economic development	Michael P. Todaro	1994	20
	Development as Freedom	Amartya Sen	1999	19
	Economics in One Lesson	Henry Hazlitt	1946	18
	Managerial economics	William F. Samuelson	1992	17
	Nudge	Richard H. Thaler	2008	17
	Theory of Games and Economic Behavior	John von Neumann	1944	16

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 28 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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