Books

• Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Longlist and Shortlist
  
  
• Resources and Books on the Economic Way of Thinking
  
  
• Suggested books and readings on finance and risk management
  

Blogs

• Other than my own blogsite, I also recommend the following blogsites which appear in the WSJ top 25 listing (listed in alphabetic order):
  
  
  • The Becker-Posner Blog (http://www.becker-posner-blog.com) – lots of good stuff on public policy, written from a free markets perspective by two extraordinarily prolific University of Chicago faculty members, Nobel Laureate Gary Becker and Richard Posner.
    
    
  • The Baseline Scenario (http://baselinescenario.com) – particularly good discussion of the financial crisis of 2007-? from MIT economist Simon Johnson.
    
    
  • Economix (http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com) – this blog’s “..main contributors are (New York Times) columnist David Leonhardt and reporter Catherine Rampell, but it also has an impressive lineup of guest contributors like Harvard economist Ed Glaeser.”
    
    
  • Freakonomics (http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com) – from the authors of Freakonomics and various colleagues of theirs.
    
    
  • Free Exchange (http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange) - Free Exchange is the economics blog from The Economist.
    
    
  • Greg Mankiw’s Blog – http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com – Harvard economist Greg Mankiw was Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors under President George W. Bush and is the author of the top selling principles of economics textbook.
    
    
  • Marginal Revolution – http://www.marginalrevolution.com – “Tyler Cowen and Alex Taborrok, libertarian economists at George Mason University, write a wide-ranging blog that keeps up with what's happening with the economy, the latest hot research out of academia and healthy doses of noneconomics news examined through an economist's eyes.”
    
    
  • Real Time Economics – http://blogs.wsj.com/economics - “The Wall Street Journal's economics blog aspires to give … a morning jolt of economics, followed by interesting coverage throughout the day of major developments in the (US and global) economy.