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Capital and Ideology

Thomas Piketty

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Thomas Piketty

Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

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Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel

Tom Wainwright

Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness

Richard H. Thaler

Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception

George A. Akerlof

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

Dan Ariely

SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy

Steven D. Levitt

The Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

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Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance

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1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It

Andrew Ross Sorkin

2030: How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future

Mauro F. Guillén

23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism

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A Little History of Economics

Niall Kishtainy

A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing

Burton G. Malkiel

A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World

William J. Bernstein

A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond

Daniel Susskind

Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought

Andrew W. Lo

Adrift: 100 Charts that Reveal Why America is on the Brink

Scott Galloway

Adults in The Room: My Battle With Europe’s Deep Establishment

Yanis Varoufakis

Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism

Bhu Srinivasan

America’s Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve Act

Roger Lowenstein

An Economist Walks into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk

Allison Schrager

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea

Mark Blyth

Austerity: When It Works and When It Doesn't

Alberto Alesina

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Thomas Piketty

Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction

James Fulcher

Capitalism Without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy

Jonathan Haskel

Public Policy

Austerity: When It Works and When It Doesn't

Alberto Alesina

The Only Game In Town: Central Banks, Instability, And Avoiding The Next Collapse

Mohamed A. El-Erian

Who Gets What – and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design

Alvin Roth

Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy

Robert H. Frank

The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age

Tim Wu

The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy

Stephanie Kelton

The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic

Andrew Yang

The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers

Zeke Hernandez

Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives

Michael A. Heller

Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

Adam Tooze

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Thomas Piketty

The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society

Binyamin Appelbaum

Social Justice Fallacies

Thomas Sowell

The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money: With the Economic Consequences of the Peace

John Maynard Keynes

Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative

Jennifer Burns

Exodus: How Migration is Changing Our World

Paul Collier

Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception

George A. Akerlof

The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases Policy Debate

Phil Gramm

The Everything War: Amazon's Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate

Dana Mattioli

How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World’s Most Dynamic Region

Joe Studwell

Economic History

America’s Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve Act

Roger Lowenstein

The World’s Worst Bet: How the Globalization Gamble Went Wrong (and What Would Make

David J. Lynch

The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic

Paul Vigna

The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society

Binyamin Appelbaum

The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality

Angus Deaton

Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age

James Suzman

Millionaire: The Philanderer, Gambler, and Duelist Who Invented Modern Finance

Janet Gleeson

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Thomas Piketty

Bourbon Empire: The Past and Future of America's Whiskey

Reid Mitenbuler

The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age

Walter Scheidel

Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works--and How It Fails

Yanis Varoufakis

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: and Other Writings

Max Weber

Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the

Thomas E. Woods

Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History

Kurt Andersen

Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

J. Bradford DeLong

The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy

Mariana Mazzucato

The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance

Ron Chernow

Growth: A History and a Reckoning

Daniel Susskind

Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism

Bhu Srinivasan

Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World

Aja Raden

Macroeconomics

Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea

Mark Blyth

When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change

Mohamed El-Erian

The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global

Peter Zeihan

The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society

Binyamin Appelbaum

The Fractured Age: How Geopolitics Will Splinter the Global Economy

Neil Shearing

Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the

Thomas E. Woods

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Joseph Schumpeter

Capital: A Critique of Political Economy

Karl Marx

The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money: With the Economic Consequences of the Peace

John Maynard Keynes

The AI Economy: Work, Wealth and Welfare in the Robot Age

Roger Bootle

The Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith

MegaThreats: Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, and How to

Nouriel Roubini

Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth – and

Dambisa Moyo

Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

J. Bradford DeLong

This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly

Carmen M. Reinhart

The Trading Game: A Confession

Gary Stevenson

Growth: A History and a Reckoning

Daniel Susskind

Adults in The Room: My Battle With Europe’s Deep Establishment

Yanis Varoufakis

Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works--and How It Fails

Yanis Varoufakis

No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends

Richard Dobbs

Inequality

Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea

Mark Blyth

The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age

Walter Scheidel

The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation

Carl Benedikt Frey

The Trading Game: A Confession

Gary Stevenson

Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

Daron Acemoglu

Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets

Brett Scott

Capital: A Critique of Political Economy

Karl Marx

The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic

Andrew Yang

The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality

Angus Deaton

What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets

Michael J. Sandel

Poverty, by America

Matthew Desmond

Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten The World Economy

Raghuram G. Rajan

The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age

Tim Wu

Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity

Douglas Rushkoff

Inheritocracy: It's Time to Talk About the Bank of Mum and

Eliza Filby

Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance

Ian Goldin

The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society

Binyamin Appelbaum

Social Justice Fallacies

Thomas Sowell

Capital and Ideology

Thomas Piketty

Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity

Scott Galloway

Markets

Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street

John Brooks

The Trading Game: A Confession

Gary Stevenson

In This Economy?: How Money & Markets Really Work

Kyla Scanlon

Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction

David Enrich

The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of

David Enrich

Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events

Robert J. Shiller

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

Niall Ferguson

Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down

Sheelah Kolhatkar

The World for Sale: Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources

Javier Blas

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds

Charles Mackay

The Only Game In Town: Central Banks, Instability, And Avoiding The Next Collapse

Mohamed A. El-Erian

How to Listen When Markets Speak: Risks, Myths, and Investment Opportunities in a Radically Reshaped Economy

Lawrence G. McDonald

Other People’s Money: The Real Business of Finance

John Kay

On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global

Henry M. Paulson

A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing

Burton G. Malkiel

The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return

Mihir A. Desai

1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy

Adam Tooze

Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street

Peter L. Bernstein

Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World

J Doyne Farmer

Globalization

Clashing over Commerce: A History of US Trade Policy

Douglas A. Irwin

The Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith

From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives

Jeffrey E. Garten

Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth – and

Dambisa Moyo

The Undercover Economist

Tim Harford

Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order

Noam Chomsky

The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World

Johan Norberg

Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare

Edward Fishman

Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the United States and the Road Ahead

Shannon K. O’Neil

Empire of Cotton: A Global History

Sven Beckert

The Shock Doctrine: Disaster capitalism's rise and what it means for you

Naomi Klein

Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten The World Economy

Raghuram G. Rajan

The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global

Peter Zeihan

Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

J. Bradford DeLong

A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World

William J. Bernstein

The World’s Worst Bet: How the Globalization Gamble Went Wrong (and What Would Make

David J. Lynch

2030: How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future

Mauro F. Guillén

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the

Marc Levinson

Dealing with China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower

Henry M. Paulson

Innovation in Real Places: Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World

Dan Breznitz

Geopolitics

How to Listen When Markets Speak: Risks, Myths, and Investment Opportunities in a Radically Reshaped Economy

Lawrence G. McDonald

Principles For Dealing With the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail

Ray Dalio

Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

Ed Conway

The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People – and the Fight for Our Future

Alec Ross

How Countries Go Broke: The Big Cycle

Ray Dalio

MegaThreats: Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, and How to

Nouriel Roubini

Our Dollar, Your Problem: Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead

Kenneth Rogoff

The World’s Worst Bet: How the Globalization Gamble Went Wrong (and What Would Make

David J. Lynch

The World for Sale: Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources

Javier Blas

Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

Adam Tooze

Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare

Edward Fishman

Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the United States and the Road Ahead

Shannon K. O’Neil

Kaput: The End of the German Miracle

Wolfgang Münchau

Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy

Adam Tooze

Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order

Noam Chomsky

Dealing with China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower

Henry M. Paulson

The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization

Peter Zeihan

One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger

Matthew Yglesias

The New Silk Roads: The New Asia and the Remaking of the World Order

Peter Frankopan

The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global

Peter Zeihan

Decision-Making

On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

Nate Silver

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

Dan Ariely

Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain

Steven D. Levitt

Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness

Richard H. Thaler

Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence

Ajay Agrawal

Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to be Smart

Ian Ayres

This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World

Yancey Strickler

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

An Economist Walks into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk

Allison Schrager

Power And Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence

Ajay Agrawal

The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for

Scott E. Page

The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: How Risk-Taking Transforms Us, Body and Mind

John Coates

Hate the Game: Economic Cheat Codes for Life, Love, and Work

Daryl Fairweather

The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions & And How the

Dan Davies

Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few

James Surowiecki

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don't

Nate Silver

The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale

John A. List

Behavioral Economics

Hate the Game: Economic Cheat Codes for Life, Love, and Work

Daryl Fairweather

Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage

William Poundstone

Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events

Robert J. Shiller

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

Happiness: Lessons from a New Science

Richard Layard

Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness

Richard H. Thaler

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

Dan Ariely

When to Rob a Bank: ...and 131 more warped suggestions and well-intended rants.

Steven D. Levitt

Coined: The Rich Life of Money and How Its History Has

Kabir Sehgal

An Economist Walks into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk

Allison Schrager

Mixed Signals: How Incentives Really Work

Uri Gneezy

SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy

Steven D. Levitt

Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy

Robert H. Frank

Foolproof: Why Safety Can Be Dangerous and How Danger Makes Us

Greg Ip

The Origin of Wealth: The Radical Remaking of Economics and What It Means for

Eric D. Beinhocker

Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception

George A. Akerlof

The Winner’s Curse: Behavioral Economics Anomalies Then and Now

Richard H. Thaler

The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being

William Davies

The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at

Dan Ariely

Incentives

Mixed Signals: How Incentives Really Work

Uri Gneezy

The Undercover Economist

Tim Harford

Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives

Michael A. Heller

SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy

Steven D. Levitt

The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of

David Enrich

Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten The World Economy

Raghuram G. Rajan

Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction

David Enrich

Other People’s Money: The Real Business of Finance

John Kay

The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale

John A. List

The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at

Dan Ariely

Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit

Alex Edmans

What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets

Michael J. Sandel

The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation

Kal Raustiala

Who Gets What – and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design

Alvin Roth

Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain

Steven D. Levitt

When to Rob a Bank: ...and 131 more warped suggestions and well-intended rants.

Steven D. Levitt

Economics Library

1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation

2030: How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything

23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism

A Little History of Economics

A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing

A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World

A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond

Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought

Adrift: 100 Charts that Reveal Why America is on the Brink of Change

Adults in The Room: My Battle With Europe’s Deep Establishment

Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance

America’s Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve Act

Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism

An Economist Walks into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea

Austerity: When It Works and When It Doesn't

Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World

Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street

Bourbon Empire: The Past and Future of America's Whiskey

Brazillionaires: Wealth, Power, Decadence, and Hope in an American Country

Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs

Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street

Capital: A Critique of Political Economy

Capital and Ideology

Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction

Capitalism and Freedom

Capitalism Without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare

Clashing over Commerce: A History of US Trade Policy

Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets

Co-opetition

Coined: The Rich Life of Money and How Its History Has Shaped Us

Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction

Dealing with China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower

Dollars and Sex: How Economics Influences Sex and Love

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