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

Stuart Ewen

Basic Books, 2001

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

Nicholas Lemann

FSG, 2019

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The Wealth of Nations
Book

Adam Smith

CreateSpace, 1776

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Collapse
Book
How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Jared Diamond

Penguin, 2005

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Against the Gods
Book
The Remarkable Story of Risk

Peter L. Bernstein

Wiley, 1996

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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds & Confusión de Confusiones
Book

Charles Mackay and Joseph de la Vega

Wiley, 1995

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Fire in the Valley
Book
The Making of the Personal Computer

Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine

McGraw-Hill, 2000

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The Upstarts
Book
How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World

Brad Stone

Little, Brown US, 2017

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The Leading Indicators
Book
A Short History of the Search for the Right Numbers

Zachary Karabell

Simon & Schuster, 2014

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No Filter
Book
The Inside Story of Instagram

Sarah Frier

Simon & Schuster, 2020

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