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How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes
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Include books by the same authorMisbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
Richard H. Thaler · 432 pages
Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans―predictable, error-prone individuals. *Misbehaving* is his arresting, frequently hilarious account of the struggle to bring an academic discipline back down to earth―and change the way we think about economics, ourselves, and our world. Traditional economics assume
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Michael Lewis · 291 pages
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
John Maynard Keynes · 403 pages
John Maynard Keynes was born in Cambridge in 1883, son of John Neville Keynes, later registrary of the university; his mother was one of the earliest women students. Educated at Eton and King's, he passed into the Civil Service in 1906, working for three years in the India Office. He returned to Cambridge as a Fellow of King's in 1909 and remained a Fellow until his death. Soon after the outbreak
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Joseph Alois Schumpeter · 437 pages
The Little Book of Economics: How the Economy Works in the Real World
Greg Ip · 272 pages
"One positive side-effect of the recent financial market meltdown that toppled giant, century-old institutions and cost millions their jobs is that it created a strong desire among many Americans to better understand how the U.S. economy functions. In The Little Book of Economics, Greg Ip, one of the country's most recognized and respected economics journalists, walks readers through how the econo
Whoops!: Why Everyone Owes Everyone And No One Can Pay
John Lanchester · 240 pages
Economics: The User's Guide
Ha-Joon Chang · 365 pages
"Unlike many economists, who present only one view of their discipline, Chang introduces a wide range of economic theories, from classical to Keynesian, revealing how each has its strengths and weaknesses, and why there is no one way to explain economic behavior. Instead, by ignoring the received wisdom and exposing the myriad forces that shape our financial world, Chang gives us the tools we need
Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?
Richard J. Maybury · 157 pages
This clearly written, award-winning book about economics is a remarkably easy and fun explanation of money (its origin and history), the dollar (its origin and history), investment cycles, velocity, business cycles, recessions, inflation, the demand for money, government (its economic behavior), and more. All explanations and interpretations are according to the Austrian and Monetarist schools of
The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality
Richard Heinberg · 321 pages
"Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits. The End of Growth proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning point in its economic history. The expansionary trajectory of industrial civilization is colliding with non-negotiable natural limits. Richard Hein
Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
Milton Friedman, Rose D. Friedman · 338 pages
In this powerful and persuasive book two distinguished economists, Milton Friedman and his wife, Rose, unravel the mysteries of economics for the man or woman in the street (Wall Street or Main Street). They show us how our freedom has been eroded and our prosperity undermined through the explosion of laws, regulations, agencies, and spending in Washington, how good intentions often produce deplor
The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
Hernando de Soto · 288 pages
Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
George A. Akerlof, Robert J. Shiller · 230 pages
An argument for recovering Keynes' notion of animal spirits as a contributor to economic phenomena, with examples drawn from the economic crises of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better
Tyler Cowen · 109 pages
" ... the eSpecial heard round the world that ignited a firestorm of debate and redefined the nature of our economic malaise is now--at last--a book. America has been through the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, unemployment numbers are frightening, median wages have been flat since the 1970s, and it is common to expect that things will get worse before they get better. Certain
And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future
Yanis Varoufakis · 337 pages
""The strong do as they can and the weak suffer what they must." --Thucydides The fate of the global economy hangs in the balance, and Europe is doing its utmost to undermine it, to destabilize America, and to spawn new forms of authoritarianism. Europe has dragged the world into hideous morasses twice in the last one hundred years... it can do it again. Yanis Varoufakis, the former Finance Minist
The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle and Other Essays
Murray N. Rothbard, Ludwig von Mises, Roger W. Garrison, Gottfried Haberler, Friedrich A. Hayek · 125 pages
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Thomas L. Friedman · 600 pages
When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, what will they say was the most crucial development at the dawn of the 21st century--the attacks of 9/11, or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes
The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System
James Rickards · 368 pages
The next financial collapse will resemble nothing in history. Deciding upon the best course to follow will require comprehending a minefield of risks, while poised at a crossroads, pondering the death of the dollar. The international monetary system has collapsed three times in the past hundred years, in 1914, 1939, and 1971. Each collapse was followed by a period of tumult: war, civil unrest, or
Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street
Tomas Sedlacek · 352 pages
The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity
Tim Wu · 224 pages
Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and the Government Bailout Will Make Things Worse
Thomas E. Woods Jr. · 194 pages
Historian Woods, writing as a libertarian, argues that government intervention in the economy actually caused the housing bubble.
The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy
Mervyn King · 430 pages
The former governor of the Bank of England recounts his country's experiences throughout the Great Recession while outlining a blueprint for recovery-era capitalism that is more resilient to modern boom-and-bust cycles.