Book Club

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WKU BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism Book Club Books

Students meet weekly to discuss the readings over a catered lunch.

 

Spring 2020

Legacy: What the All Blacks Can Teach Us about the Business of Life by James Kerr

Why Superman Doesn't Take Over The World: What Superheroes Can Tell Us About Economics by J. Brian O’Roark

Fall 2019

Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink their Way through the Unfree World by Robert Lawson and Ben Powell

In All Fairness Equality, Liberty, and the Quest for Human Dignity edited by Christopher J. Coyne, Michael C. Munger, and Robert M. Whaples

 

Spring 2019

Naked Economics: Understanding the Dismal Science” by Charles Wheelan

Fall 2018

The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek

Tomorrow 3.0: Transaction Costs and the Sharing Economy by Michael C. Munger

Spring 2018

The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream by Tyler Cowen

The Mystery of capital, Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else by Hernando de Soto

Fall 2017

Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the way to Fight Global Poverty by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo

The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford

Spring 2017

The Upside of Inequality by Edward Conrad

Eat the Rich by P. J. O’Rourke

Fall 2016

The Clash of Economic Ideas by Lawrence White

Spring 2016

The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates by Peter Leeson

The Myth of the Robber Barons by Burt Folsom

Fall 2015

Coming Apart by Charles Murray

Spring 2015

The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley

Fall 2014       

Inventing Freedom: How the English Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World by Daniel Hannan

Spring 2014   

Crisis and Leviathan by Robert Higgs

Fall 2013       

The Not So Wild Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier by Terry Anderson and P.J. Hill

Spring 2013   

The 4% Solution: Unleashing the Economic Growth America Needs by the Bush Institute

Fall 2012

The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes

Spring 2012

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Fall 2011

The Libertarian Reader by David Boaz

Spring 2011

The Road to Serfdom

The Fatal Conceit

Individualism and Economic Order

All by Friedrich von Hayek