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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes
Mark Skousen · 243 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
The worldly philosophers
Robert L. Heilbroner · 342 pages
Maestro: Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom
Bob Woodward · 279 pages
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
Globalization and Its Discontents
Joseph E. Stiglitz · 528 pages
End the Fed
Ron Paul · 212 pages
In the post-meltdown world, it is irresponsible, ineffective, and ultimately useless to have a serious economic debate without considering and challenging the role of the Federal Reserve. Most people think of the Fed as an indispensable institution without which the country's economy could not properly function. But in END THE FED, Ron Paul draws on American history, economics, and fascinating s
End This Depression Now!
Paul Krugman · 288 pages
A call-to-arms from Nobel Prize?winning economist and best-selling author Paul Krugman. The Great Recession is more than four years old, and counting. Yet, as Paul Krugman points out in this powerful volley, "Nations rich in resources, talent, and knowledge, all the ingredients for prosperity and a decent standard of living for all, remain in a state of intense pain." How bad have things gotten? H
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
Raghuram G. Rajan · 283 pages
https://archive.org/details/faultlineshowhid0000raja/page/n7/ 2010006031 Printed on acid-free paper. https://archive.org/details/faultlineshowhid0000raja/page/n279/ 978-0-691-14683-6
Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future
Robert B. Reich · 174 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
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
Cities and the Wealth of Nations
Jane Jacobs · 257 pages
Analyzes the economic functions, powers and limitations of cities and the uneasy relationship of cities with the national governments that preside over them.
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.
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.
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.
Irrational Exuberance
Robert J. Shiller · 311 pages
"In this update of his 2000 bestseller, Irrational Exuberance, Robert Shiller returns to the topic that gained him international fame: market volatility. Shiller breaks new ground in this second edition by laying out in even clearer and starker terms the market excess that continue to destabilize the economy and disrupt our lives." "Building on the original edition, Shiller draws out the psycholog
How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities
John Cassidy · 390 pages
John Cassidy describes the rising influence of what he calls utopian economics--thinking that is blind to how real people act and that denies the many ways an unregulated free market can produce disastrous unintended consequences. He then looks to the leading edge of economic theory, including behavioral economics, to offer a new understanding of the economy--one that casts aside the old assumptio
Asian Godfathers
Joe Studwell · 352 pages
"Hong Kong and Southeast Asia are home to five hundred million people, yet their economies are dominated by only forty or fifty families whose interests range from banking to real estate, shipping to sugar, gambling to lumber. A complex mythology surrounds these billionaires - one that informs views on Asian business, culture, and economics." "In Asian Godfathers, Joe Studwell finds that the facts
The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
Hernando de Soto · 288 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 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