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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
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
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
Adam Smith
CreateSpace, 1776
10 Book

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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
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
9 Article

Is It Time for a New Economics Curriculum?

“The Economy,” a new textbook, is designed for the post-neoliberal age.
Nick Romeo
The New Yorker, 2021
8 Book

Against the Gods

The Remarkable Story of Risk
Peter L. Bernstein
Wiley, 1996