1945. National Power and the Structure of Foreign Trade 1980 expanded educated, Berkeley : University of California Press
1955. Colombia; highlights of a developing economy. Bogotá: Banco de la Republica Press.
1958. The Strategy of Economic Development. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press
1961. Latin American issues; essays and comments New York: Twentieth Century Fund.
1963. Journeys toward Progress: studies of economic policy-making in Latin America. New York: Twentieth Century Fund
1967. Development Projects Observed. Washington, District of Columbia: The Brookings Institution
1971. A bias for hope : essays on development and Latin America. New Haven: Yale University Press.
1977. The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments For Capitalism Before Its Triumph. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
1980. National power and the structure of foreign trade. Berkeley: University of California Press.
1981. Essays in trespassing: economics to politics and beyond. Cambridge (England); New York: Cambridge University Press
1982. Shifting involvements: private interest and public action. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
1984. Getting ahead collectively: grassroots experiences in Latin America (with photographs by Mitchell Denburg). New York: Pergamon Press
1985. A bias for hope: essays on development and Latin America. Boulder: Westview Press.
1986. Rival views of market society and other recent essays. New York: Viking.
1995. A propensity to self-subversion. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press
1998. Crossing boundaries: selected writings. New York: Zone Books; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Distributed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press.