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 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

8
The Economists’ Hour
Book
False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society

Binyamin Appelbaum

Little, Brown US, 2019

R 9
Why Nations Fail
Book
The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson

Currency, 2013

R 9
Captains of Consciousness
Book
Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture

Stuart Ewen

Basic Books, 2001

9
The Half Has Never Been Told
Book
Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

Edward E. Baptist

Basic Books, 2014

9
What was the big story in economics over the last decade?
Article

The Brookings Institution

Brookings Institution, 2019

8
Owning Ideas
Book
The Intellectual Origins of American Intellectual Property, 1790–1909 (Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society)

Oren Bracha

Cambridge UP, 2016

8
The Wealth of Nations
Book

Adam Smith

CreateSpace, 1776

10
Digital Cash
Book
The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency

Finn Brunton

Princeton UP, 2019

8
White Trash
Book
The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

Nancy Isenberg

Viking, 2016

R 8