1) 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang 
Penguin Books, £6.99
Testing the conventional wisdoms and unthinking assumptions of so many contemporary economists, Cambridge academic Ha-Joon Chang points out how much of what they tell you about economics simply isn't true.
2) Flash Boys by Michael Lewis 
Allen Lane, £13.00
Are the markets out of control? You betcha they are. At least, the flash (high-frequency) traders think they can get one over on the authorities with their superfast computers and algorithms. It's scary stuff.
3) Thinking, fast and slow by Daniel Kahneman 
Penguin Books, £6.99
Possibly an antidote to defunct orthodoxy, the Nobel prize-winning studies of Professor Kahneman remind us that people are not always rational and that markets are therefore not always efficient.
Stefan Stern is a visiting professor at Cass Business School. Follow him on Twitter: @StefanStern
