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 and Anna Jacobson Schwartz

Princeton UP, 2008

9
The Domino’s Story
Book
How the Innovative Pizza Giant Used Technology to Deliver a Customer Experience Revolution (The Business Storybook Series)

Marcia Layton Turner

HarperCollins Leadership, 2020

8
Capital and Ideology
Book

Thomas Piketty

Belknap Press, 2020

9
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
Book

Benjamin M. Friedman

Knopf, 2021

R 9
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 Ages of Globalization
Book
Geography, Technology, and Institutions

Jeffrey D. Sachs

Columbia UP, 2020

R 8
The Hour of Fate
Book
Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism

Susan Berfield

Bloomsbury, 2020

R 8
Captains of Consciousness
Book
Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture

Stuart Ewen

Basic Books, 2001

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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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Transaction Man
Book
The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream

Nicholas Lemann

FSG, 2019

R 9