Tomorrow is the first meeting of my freshman seminar at Harvard . Here are the books we are reading this year: The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers, by Robert Heilbroner Capitalism and Freedom, by Milton Friedman Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff, by Arthur Okun Moral Economics: From Prostitution to Organ Sales, What Controversial Transactions Reveal About How Markets Work , by Alvin Roth The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies, by Bryan Caplan How to Win a Trade War: An Optimistic Guide to an Anxious Global Economy, by Soumaya Keynes and Chad P. Bown How Economics Explains the World: A Short History of Humanity, by Andrew Leigh