Economic History
Follow how money, trade and markets grew over the centuries, from early coins and trade routes to banks, booms and crashes. Each summary shows why economies look the way they do today.
Economic History Library
Alexander Hamilton
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
A Little History of Economics
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation
Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea
America’s Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve Act
Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism
Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Capital and Ideology
Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street
Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
Bourbon Empire: The Past and Future of America's Whiskey
Black and British: A Forgotten History
Coined: The Rich Life of Money and How Its History Has Shaped Us
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
Clashing over Commerce: A History of US Trade Policy
Civilization: The West and the Rest
Economics: The User’s Guide: The User's Guide
Digital Gold: The Untold Story of Bitcoin
False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World
Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
Essays In Persuasion
Empire of Cotton: A Global History
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives
How Economics Explains the World: A Short History of Humanity
How Countries Go Broke: The Big Cycle
How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World’s Most Dynamic Region
Growth: A History and a Reckoning
Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made
How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations
How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
Money: The Story Of Humanity
Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative
Millionaire: The Philanderer, Gambler, and Duelist Who Invented Modern Finance
Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream
Our Dollar, Your Problem: Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead
One Summer: America, 1927
Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It)
Principles For Dealing With the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
PostCapitalism: A Guide to Our Future