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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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9 Book

The Great Contraction, 1929-1933
Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz
Princeton UP, 2008
8 Book

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

Cuba
An American History
Ada Ferrer
Scribner, 2021
8 Book

The World
A Brief Introduction
Richard Haass
Penguin Press, 2020
8 Book

Oceans of Grain
How American Wheat Remade the World
Scott Reynolds Nelson
Basic Books, 2022
9 Article

Is It Time for a New Economics Curriculum?
“The Economy,” a new textbook, is designed for the post-neoliberal age.
Nick Romeo
The New Yorker, 2021
7 Book

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A History of the World Economy from the Iron Age to the Information Age
Philip Coggan
Profile Books, 2020
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
7 Book

Making Light Work
An End to Toil in the Twenty-First Century
David A. Spencer
Polity Press, 2022
7 Video

Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
Ray Dalio
Ray Dalio, 2022