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The Global Minotaur: America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy
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Thomas Piketty · 816 pages
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piket
How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region
Joe Studwell · 360 pages
A provocative look at what has worked - and what hasn't - in East Asian economics. It explores how policies ridiculed by economists created titans in Japan Korea and Taiwan, and are now behind the rise of China, while the best advice the West could offer sold its allies in south-east Asia down the economic river.
Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea
Mark Blyth · 288 pages
A history of austerity, an explanation of austerity-based economic policies, an examination of the results of applying austerity-based economic policies, and a determination why those policies failed.
The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism
David Harvey · 256 pages
Economix: How and Why Our Economy Works (and Doesn't Work), in Words and Pictures
Michael Goodwin, David Bach, Joel Bakan · 304 pages
A guide to the economy in graphic novel format traces the history of Western economic thought from its beginnings to the world economy in the twenty-first century.
Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics
Nicholas Wapshott · 400 pages
As the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore balance to economies gone awry. John Maynard Keynes, the mercurial Cambridge economist, believed that government had a duty to spend when others would not. He met his opposite in a little-known Austrian economics professor, Friedrich Hayek, who considered attempts to intervene
Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country
William Greider · 798 pages
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson · 496 pages
Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, or geography that determines prosperity or poverty? As *Why Nations Fail* shows, none of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Drawing on fifteen years of original research, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is our man-mad
The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy
Daniel Yergin, Joseph Stanislaw · 476 pages
India Unbound
Gurcharan Das · 420 pages
"India today is a vibrant free-market democracy and has begun to flex its muscles in the global information economy and on the world stage. Now, acclaimed columnist Gurcharan Das traces India's recent social and economic transformations in an eminently readable, impassioned narrative.". "Das tells the stories of the major players in a period of rapid and profound change - from schoolchildren insp
The Housing Boom and Bust
Thomas Sowell · 184 pages
This is a plain-English explanation of how we got into the current economic disaster that developed out of the economics and politics of the housing boom and bust. The “creative” financing of home mortgages and the even more “creative” marketing of financial securities based on American mortgages to countries around the world, are part of the story of how a financial house of cards was built up—an
The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America
David A. Stockman · 743 pages
Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis
James Rickards · 288 pages
In 1971, President Nixon imposed national price controls and took the United States off the gold standard, an extreme measure intended to end an ongoing currency war that had destroyed faith in the U.S. dollar. Today we are engaged in a new currency war, and this time the consequences will be far worse than those that confronted Nixon. Currency wars are one of the most destructive and fear
Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System
Barry Eichengreen · 215 pages
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
Ha-Joon Chang · 288 pages
A radical look by a leading economist at the issues surrounding globalization...It's rare that a book appears with a fresh perspective on world affairs, but renowned economist Ha-Joon Chang has some startlingly original things to say about the future of globalization. In theory, he argues, the world's wealthiest countries and supra-national institutions like the IMF, World Bank and WTO want to see
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.
Maestro: Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom
Bob Woodward · 279 pages
Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises
Timothy F. Geithner · 592 pages
From the former Treasury Secretary, the definitive account of the unprecedented effort to save the U.S. economy from collapse in the wake of the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression.
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000
Paul Kennedy · 677 pages
El eminente historiador Paul Kennedy analiza y describe el auge y la caída de las grandes potencias a lo largo de los últimos cinco siglos. La nación proyecta su poder militar según sus recursos económicos, pero el alto coste de mantener la supremacía militar la precipita a la decadencia. las grandes potencias en crisis reaccionan gastando más en defensa y se debilitan desviando recursos productiv
After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead
Alan S. Blinder · 476 pages
Many fine books on the financial crisis were first drafts of history--books written quickly to fill the need for immediate understanding. Alan S. Blinder, former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, held off, taking the time to understand the crisis and create a truly comprehensive and coherent narrative of how the worst economic crisis in postwar American history happened, what the governm
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
Amity Shlaes · 466 pages
This imaginative illustrated edition brings to life one of the most devastating periods in our nation's history--the Great Depression--through the lives of American people, from politicians and workers to businessmen, farmers, and ordinary citizens.
Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future
Robert B. Reich · 174 pages
Great Divergence, The
Timothy Noah · 276 pages
The income gap in America has been blamed on everything from computers to immigration, but its causes and consequences call for a patient, non-partisan exploration. Noah explains not only how this "Great Divergence" has come about, but why it threatens American democracy--and most important, how we can begin to reverse it.
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
Daniel Yergin · 885 pages
Chronicles the history of the oil industry and the forces that have shaped the modern world.