The following list includes some of my favorite books along with some of the textbooks that I have used in teaching. I have also listed some of the journals that I often refer to for research.

Some Good Reads:

These are some of my favorite books in economics, statistics, and history. I have also listed some of favorite books on Iran, my home country. The order of each list is based merely on personal preferences.

• Economics

  • The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (on Amazon and in Farsi)

  • Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx (on Amazon and in Farsi)

  • The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation by David Ricardo (on Amazon)

  • The Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David Landes (on Amazon and in Farsi)

  • The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions by Jeffrey Sachs (on Amazon)

  • The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations by  Philippe Aghion, Céline Antonin, and Simon Bunel, translated by Jodie Cohen-Tanugi  (on Amazon and in Farsi)

  • The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality by Oded Galor (on Amazon)

  • Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson (on Amazon and in Farsi (my short review of the Persian translation))

  • The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson (on Amazon and in Farsi)

  • The Worldly Philosophers by R. L. Heilbroner (on Amazon and in Farsi)

  • Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity by William J. Baumol, R. E. Litan, and C. J. Schramm (on Amazon and in Farsi)

  • The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War by Robert J. Gordon (on Amazon)

  • Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by J. B. DeLong (on Amazon)

  • How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth by Mark Koyoma and Jared Rubin (on Amazon)

  • Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change by Edmund S. Phelps (on Amazon)

  • Capitalism in America: An Economic History of the United States by Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge (on Amazon)

  • Understanding the Global Trade by Elhanan Helpman (on Amazon)

  • Outside the Box: How Globalization Changed from Moving Stuff to Spreading Ideas by Marc Levinson (on Amazon)

  • Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson (on Amazon and in Farsi)

  • A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021 by Alan Blinder (on Amazon)

  • 21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19 by Ben Bernanke (on Amazon)

  • Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider's View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead by Kenneth Rogoff (on Amazon)

  • The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson (on Amazon and in Farsi)

  • The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality by Angus Deaton (on Amazon and in Farsi)

  • Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo  (on Amazon and in Farsi)

  • Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, translated by Arthur Goldhammer (on Amazon and in Farsi)

  • Keeping At It: The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government by Paul A. Volcker (on Amazon)

  • Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen (on Amazon and in Farsi) 

  • Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by A. Banerjee  and E. Duflo (on Amazon and in Farsi)

  • Wealth of a Nation: A History of Trade Politics in America by C. Donald Johnson (on Amazon)

  • The Economics of the Middle East: A Comparative Approach by James E. Rauch (on Amazon) 

  • Naked Economics by Charles Wheelan (on Amazon)

  • The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve by Peter Conti-Brown (on Amazon)

  • The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future by Joseph Stiglitz (on Amazon and in Farsi)

  • More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy by Philip Coggan (on Amazon)

  • A Little History of Economics by Niall Kishtainy (on Amazon)

  • The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations by Michael L. Ross (on Amazon)

  • Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (on Amazon and in Farsi)

  • Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgement by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass Sunstein (on Amazon)

  • Nudge: The Final Edition by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R Sunstein (on Amazon and in Farsi)

  • How Innovation Works, And Why It Flourishes in Freedom by Matt Ridley (on Amazon)

  • The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade by Pietra Rivoli (on Amazon)

  • Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy by Tim Harford (on Amazon and in Farsi)

  • Trade Is Not a Four-Letter Word: How Six Everyday Products Make the Case for Trade by Fred P. Hochberg (on Amazon)

  • Economics Rules: The Right and Wrongs of the Dismal Science by Dani Rodrik (on Amazon and in Farsi)

  • Micromotives and Macrobehavior by Thomas C. Schelling (on Amazon)

  • Who Gets What--And Why? by Alvin Roth (on Amazon and in Farsi)

  • Co-intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick (on Amazon)

  • Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and S. J. Dubner (on Amazon and in Farsi)

  • The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson (on Amazon and in Farsi)

  • The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations by Daniel Yergin (on Amazon)

  • The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future by Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar (on Amazon and in Farsi)

  • How Economics Explains the World: A Short History of Humanity by Andrew Leigh (on Amazon)

  • Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization by Ed Conway (on Amazon)

  • In Pursuit of Perfect Portfolio: The Stories, Voices, and Key Insights of the Pioneers Who Shaped the Way We Invest by Andrew W. Lo and Stephen Foerster (on Amazon)

  • The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties by Paul Collier (on Amazon)

  • GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History by Diane Coyle (on Amazon)

  • The World Trade Organization: A Very Short Introduction by Amrita Narlikar (on Amazon)

  • Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail by Ray Dalio (on Amazon)

  • The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan (on Amazon)

  • The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life by Uri Gneezy and John A. List (on Amazon)

  • Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely (on Amazon)

  • People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent by Joseph Stiglitz (on Amazon)

  • Economics for the Common Good by Jean Tirole, translated by Steven Rendall (on Amazon)

  • A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Malkiel (on Amazon)

  • The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham with Commentaries by Jason Zweig (on Amazon)

  • The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by John C. Bogle (on Amazon)

  • The Return of of Depression Economics and The Crisis of 2008 by Paul Krugman (on Amazon)

  • Finance and the Good Society by Robert J Shiller (on Amazon)

  • Identity Economics by George Akerlof and Rachel E. Kranton (on Amazon and in Farsi)

  • Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace by Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis (On Amazon)

  • Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way by Roma Agrawal (on Amazon)

  • Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World Economy by Dani Rodrik (on Amazon)

  • Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure by  Vaclav Smil (on Amazon)

  • AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future by Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan (on Amazon)

  • Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb  (on Amazon and in Farsi)

  • Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence by by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb (on Amazon)

  • The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War by Nicholas Mulder (on Amazon)

  • Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel (on Amazon)

  • Cracked It: How to Solve Big Problems and Sell Solutions Like Top Strategy Consultants by Bernard Garrette, Corey Phelps, and Olivier Sibony (on Amazon) 

  • Development by Ian Goldin (on Amazon) 

  • Speed and Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now by John Doerr (on Amazon)

  • Entrepreneurship by Paul Westhead and Mike Wright (on Amazon)

  • The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty by Clayton Christensen, Efosa Ojomo, and Karen Dillon (on Amazon)

  • Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard H. Thaler (on Amazon and in Farsi)

  • The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr (on Amazon)

  • Thirty Seconds Economics by Donald Marron (On Amazon)

  • Economics: Making Sense of the Modern Economy by The Economist (on Amazon)

  • The Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes by Mark Skousen (on Amazon)

  • The Zero Marginal Cost Society by Jeremy Rifkin (on Amazon and in Farsi)

• Statistics:

  • Mostly Harmless Econometrics by Joshua D. Angrist and Joern-Steffen Pischke (on Amazon)

  • Naked Statistics by Charles Wheelan (on Amazon)

  • The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail but Some Don't by Nate Silver (on Amazon) 

  • The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics by Tim Harford (on Amazon)

  • Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner (on Amazon)

  • Making Numbers Count: The Art and Science of Communicating Numbers by Chip Heath and Karla Starr (on Amazon)

  • The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (on Amazon and in Farsi)

  • The Arts of Statistics: How to Learn from Data by David Spiegelhalter (on Amazon)

  • Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic (on Amazon)

  • The Art of Statistical Thinking by Albert Rutherford and Jae H. Kim (on Amazon)

• History:

  • Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (on Amazon and in Farsi)

  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari (on Amazon and in Farsi)

  • A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity by Michael A. Cook (on Amazon)

  • The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan (on Amazon)

  • The World: A Little History by Ernst Gombrich (on Amazon)

  • The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Account to the Fall of Rome by Susan Wise Bauer (on Amazon)

  • The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade by Susan Wise Bauer (on Amazon)

  • The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople by Susan Wise Bauer (on Amazon)

  • Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (on Amazon and in Farsi)

  • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow (on Amazon)

  • A Concise History of the Middle East by Arthur Goldschmidt Jr. and Lawrence Davidson (on Amazon)

  • A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin (on Amazon)

  • A History of the Middle East by Peter Mansfield and Nicolas Pelham (on Amazon)

  • Turning Points in Middle Eastern History by Eamonn Gearon (on Amazon)

  • Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World by Joshua B. Freeman (on Amazon)

  • Economic History of the World Since 1400 by Donald J. Harreld (on Amazon)

  • Energy: A Human History by Richard Rhodes (on Amazon)

  • How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to iPhone by Brian McCullough (on Amazon)

  • From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives by Jeffrey E. Garten (on Amazon)

  • Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond (on Amazon)

  • The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time by Will Durant (on Amazon)

  • Origins: The Search for Our Prehistoric Past by Frank H. T. Rhodes (on Amazon)

• Iran:

  • Iran: A Modern History by Abbas Amanat (on Amazon)

  • Iran Between Two Revolutions by Ervand Abrahamian (on Amazon and in Farsi)

  • The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran by Roy Mottahedeh (on Amazon)

  • Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic by Michael Axworthy (on Amazon)

  • Iran and America: A History, 1720 to the Present by John Ghazvinian (on Amazon and in Farsi)

  • Iran's Political Economy Since the Revolution by Suzanne Maloney (on Amazon)

  • A History of Modern Iran by Ervand Abrahamian (on Amazon and in Farsi)

  • Iran's Grand Strategy: A Political History by Vali Nasr (on Amazon)

  • Iran: A Beginners’ Guide by Homa Katouzian (on Amazon)

  • A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind by  Michael Axworthy (on Amazon)

  • The Coup: 1953, the CIA, and the Roots of Modern US-Iranian Relations by Ervand Abrahamian (on Amazon and in Farsi)

  • All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror by Stephen Kinzer (on Amazon)

  • Pivot of the Universe: Nasir al-Din Shah and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896 by Abbas Amanat (on Amazon and in Farsi)

  • Republics of Myth: National Narratives and the US-Iran Conflict by Hussein Banai, Malcolm Byrne, and John Tirman (on Amazon) 

  • Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry that Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas (on Amazon)

  • Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy by Trita Parsi (on Amazon)

  • The Persian Empire by John W. Lee (on Amazon)

  • Understanding Iran by William R. Polk (on Amazon)

  • The Last Shah: America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty by Ray Takeyh (on Amazon)

  • State and Society in Iran: The Eclipse of Qajars and the Emergence of Pahlavis by Homa Katouzian (on Amazon)

  • Nationalizing Iran: Culture, Power, and State 1870-1940 by Afshin Marashi (on Amazon)

  • Coming of Age in Iran: Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity by Manata Hashemi (on Amazon)

  • The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism: Race and the Politics of Dislocation by Reza Zia-Ebrahimi (on Amazon)

  • Retargeting Iran by David Barsamian (on Amazon)

  • Iran and the Global Economy: Petro Populism, Islam and Economic Sanctions by Parvin Alizadeh and Hassan Hakimian (on Amazon)

  • Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis by Mark Bowden (on Amazon)

  • Iran Rising: The Survival and Future of the Islamic Republic by Amin Saikal (on Amazon)

Textbooks:

At the University of Oklahoma, Price College of Business (Fall 2021 - Present), I have used the following textbooks in my classes:

• ENT 5970: Innovation, Intellectual Property, and Economic Growth by Christine Greenhalgh and Mark Rogers (on Amazon)

• B-AD 5122: Introductory Econometrics for Finance by Chris Brooks (on Amazon and Programming Resources)

• B-AD 5102: Managerial Economics and Business Strategy by Michael R. Baye and Jeff T. Prince (on Amazon)

At the University of Oklahma, Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences (Fall 2015-Summer 2021), I used the following textbooks:

• ECON 3613: I assigned selected readings from the following textbooks:

  • International Economics: Theory and Policy by P. Krugman, M. Obstfeld, and M. Melitz (on Amazon) 

  • International Economics by S. Husted and M. Melvin (on Amazon)

  • International Economics by J. Gerber (on Amazon)

• ECON 3513: Labor Economics by G. Borjas (on Amazon)

• ECON 2843: Basic Business Statistics by M. Berenson, D. Levine, K. Szabat , and David F. Stephan (on Amazon) 

• ECON 1113: Macroeconomics by Acemoglu, Laibson, and List (on Amazon)

At the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (Fall 2010 - Spring 2015), I used the following textbooks in my classes:

• ECON 351: International Economics by S. Husted and M. Melvin (on Amazon) 

• ECON 328: Markets and the Environment by N. O. Keohane and S. M. Olmstead (on Amazon)

• ECON 103: I used three different books to teach this course:

  • Microeconomics by Acemoglu, Laibson, and List (on Amazon) (Fall 2014, Spring 2015)

  • Principles of Microeconomics by N. Gregory Mankiw (on Amazon) (Fall 2011 - Spring 2014)

  • Microeconomics by McConnell, Brue, and Flynn (on Amazon) (Fall 2010, Spring 2011)

Journals:

In what follows, I list some of the field and general interest journals that I refer to for my research. These journals are particularly useful for research in international economics, development, and the economics of innovation. There are also some survey journals. And, at the end, I have listed the journals in which I have published; some of those journals also appear in the list for the field or general interest journals.

• International Economics and Development: Journal of International Economics, Journal of International Money and Finance, Review of International Economics, The World Economy,  Open Economies Review, Review of World Economics, International Journal of Finance and Economics, International Review of Economics and Finance, Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, and International Economics and Economic Policy. Also, Journal of Development Economics, World Development, The Journal of Development Studies, and Review of Development Economics.

• General Interest Journals: American Economic Review, International Economic Review, The Economic Journal, Journal of European Economic Association, European Journal of Political Economy, Canadian Journal of Economics, Economic Inquiry, and Southern Economic Journal. 

• The Economics of Innovation: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Research Policy, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Technovation, and Industry and Innovation.

• Survey Journals: Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economic Perspective, Annual Review of Economics, Journal of Economic Survey, and Brooking Papers on Economic Activities.

• I have published in: The World Economy, Open Economies Review, Southern Economic Journal, Review of Development Economics, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Journal of Economic Studies, International Economics and Economic Policy, Comparative Economic Studies, International Review of Applied Economics, and Economics Bulletin.