Mother of Invention: How good ideas get ignored in an economy built for men by Katrine Marçal (2021)

Mission Economy: A moonshot guide to changing capitalism by Mariana Mazzucato (2021) Allen Lane

Data Feminism by By Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein (2020) MIT Press

Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons by Julia Gillard and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (2020) Penguin

Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez (2019) Penguin

Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo (2019) Public Affairs

You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World by Clare Wright (2019) Text Publishing

Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? (And How to Fix It) by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic (2019) Harvard Business Review Press

Men at Work: Australia's Parenthood Trap by Annabel Crabb (2019) Quarterly Essay

Women Kind by Kirstin Ferguson and Catherine Fox (2018) Murdoch Books

Stop Fixing Women by Catherine Fox (2017) NewSouth Books

Doughnut Economics: 7 Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist, by Kate Raworth (2017) Random House 

What Works: Gender Equality by Design by Iris Bohnet (2016) Harvard University Press

Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner? A Story About Women and Economics by Katrine Marçal, Translated by Saskia Vogel (2016) Portobello Books

Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women Are Worth by Marilyn Waring (1988)

For the young economists in your life

E is for Economics by Veronica Goodman

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