The legendary economist Walter Block recently posted a list of the top ten books that influenced his seminal career on his Substack page.

Others have been encouraged to do the same.

Here are the books that have influenced my career over the years (in no particular order);

1. Free to Choose | Milton Friedman

2. Economics in One Lesson | Henry Hazlitt

3. The Thomas Sowell Reader | Thomas Sowell

4. Liberty Defined | Ron Paul

5. The Great Deformation | David Stockman

6. What Has Government Done to Our Money? | Murray Rothbard

7. America’s Great Depression | Murray Rothbard

8. The Revolution: A Manifesto | Ron Paul

9. Defending the Undefendable | Walter Block

10. Freakonomics | Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (they made economics fun!)

Mr. Block also referenced his favorite classical composers, so I must do the same (in no particular order)

J.S. Bach

Franz Schubert

Max Richter

Frederic Chopin

John Fields

Giuseppe Verdi

Richard Wagner

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Ludwig van Beethoven

Sergei Rachmaninoff