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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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Summaries

8 Book

Why Trust Matters
An Economist's Guide to the Ties That Bind Us
Benjamin Ho
Columbia UP, 2021
10 Book

The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
CreateSpace, 1776
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
9 Book

Common Sense
Thomas Paine
Applewood Books, 2002
10 Book

The Accidental Investment Banker
Inside the Decade that Transformed Wall Street
Jonathan A. Knee
Oxford UP, 2006
Book

Working Backwards
Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
Colin Bryar and Bill Carr
St. Martin’s Press, 2021
8 Book

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

Collapse
How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared Diamond
Penguin, 2005
8 Book

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

The Leading Indicators
A Short History of the Search for the Right Numbers
Zachary Karabell
Simon & Schuster, 2014
9 Book

Capital
Karl Marx
Oxford UP, 1999
8 Book

Behind the Cloud
The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company – and Revolutionized an Industry
Marc Benioff and Carlye Adler
Jossey-Bass, 2009