Book List for Economics Optional - Paper 1

Economics Paper-I Book list

Microeconomics
Advanced Microeconomics by Ahuja
Topics like Arrow and Sen covered from the internet including proof of Arrow's theorem
etc

Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics
Macroeconomics by Froyen
Macroeconomics by Gardner Ackley
Macroeconomics by Dornbusch, Fischer
Couple of Indian books index referred to see some terms in macro like 4-sector model
which are only used in Indian books and sometimes are asked in the exam
Monetary Economics by S B Gupta covers some topics
International Economics
International Economics by Salvatore
Study guide to International Economics by Salvatore
2 chapters from Modern microeconomics - Part 2 by Kalyanjit Roy Choudhury
Notes from the internet
WTO from RBI document on Indias stand at WTO+ WTO website
Growth and Development
Thirlwall - HD model, Unbalanced & balanced growth, Lewis model; Myrdal
Economic Growth chapters from Mankiw Macroecnomics for Solow model
Todaro, Smith for Agriculture, HDI and sm other trivial topics
Debraj Ray esp for Human Capital, R&D; Lewis and Migration model; Kuznets
empirical etc
Notes from internet on Environment, HDI and other indices etc
Public Finance
Musgrave and Musgrave
H L Bhatia
Internet
Book List for Economics Paper -2
Economics Paper-II

No book was covered cover to cover but topics seen from all sources and preparation done
taking into account old questions asked in CSE and IES exams

Pre-Independence
Economics history of India by G Kaushal
DU reading for BA( Eco) Hons. which has chapters from Tirthankar Roy etc
History books like Sumit Sarkar has some pages on syllabus topics

Post-Independence
Books by Uma Kapila
Oxford Companion to Economics in India by Kaushik Basu
Development Planning ( not sure about name of book) by Sukhamoy Chakraborty
Data from Rudra Dutt and Sundaram
DU readings
Currency reports by RBI
India's Economic Reforms and Development Essays for Manmohan Singh by Ahluwalia
& Little
Bimal Jalan book on Indian Economy
India development reports
Monetary policy linked topics completely from RBI speeches, papers and currency
reports
WTO from RBI research paper

Current
Economic Times newspaper, EPW, RBI website, Yojana
World bank, IMF research papers linked to India esp papers by Poonam Gupta, Arvind
Virmani, Petia Topalova etc
Latest books in the market by well renowned economists like Shankar Acharya etc
PD Economy