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, the stock exchange and much more.
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The Great Contraction, 1929-1933
Book

Milton Friedman et al.

Princeton UP, 2008

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Capital and Ideology
Book

Thomas Piketty

Belknap Press, 2020

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The Spider Network
Book
The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History

David Enrich

Custom House, 2017

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The Economists’ Hour
Book
False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society

Binyamin Appelbaum

Little, Brown US, 2019

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Why Nations Fail
Book
The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Daron Acemoglu et al.

Currency, 2013

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Captains of Consciousness
Book
Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture

Stuart Ewen

Basic Books, 2001

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Fight the Pandemic, Save the Economy
Report
Lessons from the 1918 Flu

Sergio Correia et al.

Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2020

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Could/Should Jubilee Debt Cancellations Be Reintroduced Today?
Report

Michael Hudson et al.

Economics E-Journal, 2018

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The Wealth of Nations
Book

Adam Smith

CreateSpace, 1776

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The Half Has Never Been Told
Book
Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

Edward E. Baptist

Basic Books, 2014

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