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Paper Promises: Debt, Money, and the New World Order
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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
Grand Pursuit: A History of Economic Genius
Sylvia Nasar · 558 pages
A brilliant new approach to the story of modern economics and to understanding how we got into today's financial mess. As the twenty-first century faces new and ever more daunting economic obstacles, Sylvia Nasar tells the story of how our financial world came to function as it does today, and how a handful of men and women would change the lives of every person on the planet. Economics was not al
The worldly philosophers
Robert L. Heilbroner · 342 pages
This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff · 487 pages
Man's Worldly Goods: The Story of the Wealth of Nations
Leo Huberman · 368 pages
Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises
Robert Z. Aliber · 397 pages
Since its introduction in 1978, this book has charted and followed the volatile world of financial markets. Charles Kindleberger's brilliant, panoramic history revealed how financial crises follow a pattern. Events of recent years and the current Eurozone continue to dominate policy and headline debates around the globe. In this updated and expanded seventh edition, Robert Z. Aliber probes the mos
More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
Sebastian Mallaby · 482 pages
Based on unprecedented access to the industry, including three hundred hours of interviews, economist/journalist Sebastian Mallaby tells the inside story of hedge funds, from their origins in the 1960s and 1970s to their role in the financial crisis of 2007-2009. Wealthy, powerful, and potentially dangerous, hedge fund moguls have become the It Boys of 21st century capitalism. Ken Griffin started
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War
Robert J. Gordon · 784 pages
The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire
Neil Irwin · 448 pages
Explores the work of the world's most powerful central bankers-- --Ben Bernanke of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Mervyn King of the Bank of England, and Jean-Claude Trichet of the European Central Bank--offering a view from the cockpit of the global economy as the three men struggled to keep it from going down.
A Historical Casebook of Wage Formation
Giulio Ongaro · 423 pages
The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy
Daniel Yergin, Joseph Stanislaw · 476 pages
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
America's Great Depression
Murray N. Rothbard · 520 pages
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
Marc Levinson · 395 pages
In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the sweeping economic consequences of the sharp fall in t
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
David S. Landes · 650 pages
David S. Landes tells the long, fascinating story of wealth and power throughout the world: the creation of wealth, the paths of winners and losers, the rise and fall of nations. He studies history as a process, attempting to understand how the world's cultures lead to - or retard - economic and military success and material achievement. Countries of the West, Landes asserts, prospered early thro
The Global Minotaur: America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy
Yanis Varoufakis · 272 pages
The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World Was Created
William J. Bernstein · 350 pages
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
David Graeber · 542 pages
The author shows that before there was money, there was debt. For 5,000 years humans have lived in societies divided into debtors and creditors. For 5,000 years debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates, laws and religions. The words “guilt,” “sin,” and “redemption” come from ancient debates about debt. These terms and the ideas of debt shape our most basic ideas of r
The Great Crash 1929
John Kenneth Galbraith · 206 pages
This classic tome is a detailed economic examination of the 1929 financial collapse written with wit and attitude.
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Michael Lewis · 291 pages
The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
Benn Steil · 478 pages
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
Niall Ferguson · 448 pages
Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance.Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Naomi Klein · 619 pages
**The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism** is a 2007 book by the Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein. In the book, Klein argues that neoliberal free market policies (as advocated by the economist Milton Friedman) have risen to prominence in some developed countries because of a deliberate strategy of "shock therapy". This centers on the exploitation of national crises (dis