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

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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

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

Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson

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

Nicholas Lemann

FSG, 2019

R 9
White Trash
Book
The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

Nancy Isenberg

Viking, 2016

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The Price of Peace
Book
Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes

Zachary D. Carter

Random House, 2020

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The Wealth of Nations
Book

Adam Smith

CreateSpace, 1776

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