Reddit Books

The most-mentioned books on r/Economics

Reddit is a social media and news aggregation website that ranks content based on a voting system. People worldwide post content (usually links, but also original content), and other users can “upvote” or “downvote” posts, pushing the most interesting content to the top. 

It’s a place where you can find groups of like-minded people. Reddit calls these groups subreddits, and they cover different topics, including niche interests, politics, hobbies, and thousands of other topics people want to talk about.

Since its launch in 2005, the site has become one of the most popular social media sites with millions of monthly active users. 

We've processed billions of comments to find the books most mentioned on Reddit. 

Table of Contents

 

The most-mentioned books on r/Economics

Basic Economics20 users
Economics in One Lesson20 users
The Creature From Jekyll Island17 users
This Time Is Different15 users
The Two-Income Trap13 users
Nudge11 users
Dow 36,00011 users
The Big Short10 users
The Mystery of Capital10 users
The Worldly Philosophers10 users
The Black Swan10 users
Meltdown10 users
Principles of Economics9 users
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money8 users
Debt8 users
"Dow, 30,000 by 2008" Why It's Different This Time8 users
Freakonomics7 users
Free to Choose7 users
Microeconomic Theory7 users
Why Nations Fail7 users
Capital In The Twenty-First Century7 users
Dow 100,0007 users
The Millionaire Next Door7 users
The Shock Doctrine6 users
Thinking, Fast and Slow6 users
A Random Walk down Wall Street6 users
The Race between Education and Technology6 users
A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-19606 users
A Farewell to Alms6 users
Animal Spirits6 users
Predictably Irrational5 users
The Ascent of Money5 users
Money Mischief5 users
The Road to Serfdom5 users
How to Lie with Statistics5 users
Naked Economics5 users
Intermediate Microeconomics5 users
End the Fed5 users
How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes5 users
Manias, Panics, and Crashes5 users
Principles of Macroeconomics5 users
Capital in the Twenty First Century5 users
Bad Samaritans5 users
The spirit level5 users
The High Cost of Free Parking5 users
Predictably Irrational, Revised and4 users
Dow 40,0004 users
The Four Pillars of Investing4 users
Macroeconomics4 users
Lords of Finance4 users
Too Big to Fail4 users
A Brief History of Neoliberalism4 users
The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One4 users
Traffic4 users
13 bankers4 users
Coming Apart4 users
When Genius Failed4 users
Prisoner's Dilemma4 users
Why the Real Estate Boom Will Not Bust4 users
The Return of Depression Economics4 users
The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 20084 users
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man4 users
Mostly Harmless Econometrics4 users
The Myth of the Rational Voter4 users
The Son Also Rises4 users
Macroeconomics4 users
Why Men Earn More4 users
Economics for real people4 users
Democracy in Chains4 users
Macroeconomics4 users
The Spirit Level4 users
Debunking Economics4 users
The Rational Optimist3 users
End of the World Is Just the Beginning3 users
Economics 19e3 users
International Economics3 users
Economics Without Illusions3 users
The Undercover Economist3 users
The Second Machine Age3 users
Keynes Hayek3 users
Microfoundations and Macroeconomics3 users
Devil Take the Hindmost3 users
The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy3 users
The Coming Collapse of China3 users
The End of Work3 users
What Has Government Done to Our Money? and The Case for a 100 Perce...3 users
A Guide to Econometrics3 users
The Conservative Nanny State3 users
The Origin of Wealth3 users
Money, banking, and financial markets3 users
The Prize3 users
The Forgotten Depression3 users
Where does money come from?3 users
And the Money Kept Rolling In3 users
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New...3 users
Good Money3 users
Human Action3 users
The Color of Law3 users
Kicking Away the Ladder3 users
The Economic Growth Engine3 users

Our methodology

Book mentions are found by checking every reddit comment for links to Amazon, Goodreads, Google Books, and O'Rielly Media. Non-link mentions are too tricky to parse in an unbiased way: books with short, simple titles like The Road get massively under- or over-counted.

When a user mentions the same book multiple times in the same subreddit, we only count the top-voted comment. This curbs users shilling a particular book, and gives a more representative feel for an entire subreddit.

 

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