An Example of Theoretical Research in Economics, Master's Thesis

My Master's paper is not the best paper, nor is it rigorous. It is not published any where else. I publish it here with the sole purpose: to allow you to take it as an example for your research and write a better one. ...

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Rich Dad, Poor Dad

I was curious about finance and surfed the web for the best book for laymen like me. The title came up but I did not dig into it. However, when I walked in different libraries in my graduate school of Waseda University, I frequently saw it in both Japanese and English versions, which means it is seemingly popular. So I decided to read it. I put it in my iPhone, printed out some pages and also borrow the English version from my...

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The Constitution of Liberty

The book as well as the author are well-known but not as one would expect, although the ideas have changed the world in a great extent. Most students of economics do not even know his name. Some professors do hear his name but never actually read his books. That is my experience while I studied in Japan as well as of today when I asked people around me about that... Of course, if you read only textbooks, you would probably never...

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Free to Choose

Prof. Mankiw of Harvard has written two worldly popular textbooks in economics: Principles of Economics and Macroeconomics. There are many universities and professors who use his textbooks in classrooms. In my university, Kobe University, his textbooks are popular for undergraduate and graduate levels. I enormously like his books, and that is where I got to know the book Free to Choose.    In his note on his further...

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Economics in One Lesson

I have no reservation to say that Economics in One Lesson is one of few books in economics that can explain economics in simplest ways for laymen and economists alike. Giant economists such as Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes and F.A. Hayek were far from being able to do so. This is one of the reasons that I include it in my 5 must read books in economics. Clearly this book is an updated version of Bastiat’s That Which is...

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