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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (New York: W.W. Norton, 1997). An exploration of the role of geography in shaping long-run economic development.
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics by William Easterly (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001). A history and critique of economic development policy as practiced by the World Bank and other international organizations.
The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress by Joel Mokyr (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990). A narrative history of technological progress as well as an analysis of the economic forces that drive it.
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor by David Landes (New York: Norton, 1998). An economic history of the last five centuries, emphasizing the roles of culture, geography, politics, and technology in contributing to regions' differing economic outcomes.
Plagues and Peoples by William H. McNeill (New York: Doubleday, second edition 1998). An examination of the role that disease has played in human history.
The European Miracle: Environments, economics, and geopolitics in the history of Europe and Asia by E. L. Jones (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, third edition, 2003). An investigation into why Europe developed before the rest of the world, focusing on the interaction of geography and government.
A Concise History of World Population by Massimo Livi-Bacci (Oxford: Blackwell, second edition 1997). A history of fertility, mortality, and the factors which influenced them.
Free Trade Under Fire by Douglas Irwin (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003). A spirited defense of free trade.
The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjørn Lomborg (Cambridge University Press, 2001). A controversial attacking on the factual basis of environmentalists' doomsday predictions.
Introduction to Economic Growth by Charles I. Jones (New York: W.W. Norton, second edition, 2002). An analysis of theories of economic growth, with a particular focus on models of technological progress. The level of mathematical sophistication is somewhat higher than in my textbook, but far more accessible than the books by Barro and Sala-i-Martin and by Aghion and Howitt.
Economic Growth by Robert J. Barro and Xavier Sala-i-Martin (Cambridge: MIT Press, second edition, 2004). A rigorous, highly mathematical presentation of the fundamental models used by growth theorists.
Endogenous Growth Theory by Phillipe Aghion and Peter Howitt (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998). A highly mathematical treatment of the theory of technological progress.
Articles
Most communication among professional economists takes place through articles in professional journals, rather than through books. For a listing of important articles broken down by topic, look in the "references" section of Jonathan Temple's Economic Growth web site http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Economics/Growth/
The very latest research is available as "working papers" (which have not yet appeared as articles). The SSRN Economic Growth Abstract Database has an extensive list of working papers that can be searched by keyword. http://www.ssrn.com/link/economic-growth.html
Finally, the footnotes in my textbook cite many of the key articles in the area.
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