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Financial History

History may not repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes...see how past societies and economies have lived through and reacted to financial change.

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8 Book

The Spider Network
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 Book

Dark Towers
Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction
David Enrich
Custom House, 2020
9 Book

The Color of Money
Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
Mehrsa Baradaran
Belknap Press, 2019
Book

Ways and Means
Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War
Roger Lowenstein
Penguin Press, 2022
Book

Lincolnomics
How President Lincoln Constructed the Great American Economy
John F. Wasik
Diversion Books, 2021
8 Book

The Value of Everything
Making and Taking in the Global Economy
Mariana Mazzucato
Public Affairs, 2018
8 Article

The Long Economic Hangover of Pandemics
History shows COVID-19’s economic fallout may be with us for decades
Òscar Jordà et al.
IMF, 2020
9 Article

How Centuries of Black Strength Created a Blueprint for Economic Recovery
Black communities have for centuries harbored a spirit of support and mutual aid. It’s time the rest of the country followed their lead.
Douglas Rushkoff
Medium, 2020
Book

The Hour of Fate
Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism
Susan Berfield
Bloomsbury, 2020
8 Book

The Holy Grail of Macroeconomics
Lessons from Japan's Great Recession
Richard C. Koo
Wiley, 2009