Donny Baseball's Freshman Economic Seminar Reading List

Greg Mankiw has posted the reading list for his freshman economics seminar. It's a good list, but, naturally, a highly calibrated list befitting an unstintingly collegial academic like Mankiw. Such an occasion gives me the opportunity to highlight what I believe are two of the most underappreciated books in economics. I wish their authors would be more widely known and studied. Students wishing to prepare for actual real life and responsible, informed citizenship would do well to read these two books.

The Mystery of Capital by Hernando de Soto
The Ultimate Resource by Julian Simon