BRAD DELONG: These Are The 20 Books That 'Shifted The Ground' On Which I Think

YouTube/Brad DeLongFor all of our benefit, economist Brad DeLong has come up with his personal list of books written since 1930 "that have shifted the ground on which I think."

These foundational works surely helped DeLong become a top Treasury official and one of the country's foremost voices in macroeconomic thinking.

Here's the list:

• Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities
• Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
• Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
• Daniel Bell, The End of Ideology
• Nancy Chodorow, The Reproduction of Mothering
• Milovan Djilas, The New Class
• Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures
• Friedrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom, "The Use of Knowledge in Society"
• Albert Hirschman, Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
• John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, "The End of Laissez-Faire"
• Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• David Landes, The Unbound Prometheus
• W. Arthur Lewis, The Evolution of the International Economic Order
• William McNeill, Plagues and Peoples
• Barrington Moore, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
• George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia, 1984, The Road to Wigan Pier
• J.G.A. Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment
• Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation
• Edward Said, Orientalism
• E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class

There you have it. Read up.