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Economic History

Nobody can predict the future, but everyone can analyze the past and learn from it. These summaries tell the story of capitalism, currencies, markets, and much more.

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9 Book

The Great Contraction, 1929-1933
Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz
Princeton UP, 2008
8 Book

Tokens
The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform
Rachel O'Dwyer
Verso Books, 2023
9 Book

Cuba
An American History
Ada Ferrer
Scribner, 2021
8 Book

Undaunted
Overcoming Doubts and Doubters
Kara Goldin
HarperCollins Leadership, 2020
8 Book

The Capital Order
How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
Clara E. Mattei
University of Chicago Press, 2022
10 Book

The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
CreateSpace, 1776
8 Book

The World
A Brief Introduction
Richard Haass
Penguin Press, 2020
10 Book

Collapse
How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared Diamond
Penguin, 2005
7 Article

One of the Most Famous Ideas in Economics Is Wrong
History shows that free trade can’t buy world peace.
Jacob Soll
Politico Magazine, 2022
7 Book

A Herstory of Economics
Edith Kuiper
Polity Press, 2022
8 Book

The Domino’s Story
How the Innovative Pizza Giant Used Technology to Deliver a Customer Experience Revolution (The Business Storybook Series)
Marcia Layton Turner
HarperCollins Leadership, 2020
8 Book

Oceans of Grain
How American Wheat Remade the World
Scott Reynolds Nelson
Basic Books, 2022