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History of Economics

1. Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance

   Jane Gleeson-White

   “A timely, topical, readable, and thought-provoking look at the history and legacy of double-entry bookkeeping.”—Elif Batuman, author of The PossessedMore

2. Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics

   Nicholas Wapshott

   “I defy anybody—Keynesian, Hayekian, or uncommitted—to read [Wapshott’s] work and not learn something new.”—John Cassidy, The New YorkerMore

3. The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008

   Paul Krugman

   The New York Times bestseller: the Nobel Prize–winning economist shows how today’s crisis parallels the Great Depression—and explains how to avoid catastrophe. With a new foreword for this paperback edition.More

4. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

   Max Weber, Richard Swedberg

   The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is Max Weber’s most important work and, since its publication in 1904, has been widely considered the most important sociological study of the twentieth century.More

5. The Authentic Adam Smith: His Life and Ideas

   James Buchan

   Celebrated author James Buchan on the widely known—but often misread—Scottish philosopher Adam Smith.More

6. Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations: A Story of Economic Discovery

   David Warsh

   "What The Double Helix did for biology, David Warsh's Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations does for economics."—Boston GlobeMore

7. Rome, Inc.: The Rise and Fall of the First Multinational Corporation

   Stanley Bing

   The world's first corporate case study, as only the best-selling Stanley Bing could tell it.More

8. Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence

   Tim Parks

   “A swift and brilliant synthesis of finance, politics, and history.”—Ben Sisario, New York Times Book ReviewMore

9. Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets

   John McMillan

   Clear, insightful, and nondogmatic, this book gives us a new appreciation for one of our most ubiquitous institutions.More

10. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor

    David S. Landes

    "Readers cannot but be provoked and stimulated by this splendidly iconoclastic and refreshing book."—Andrew Porter, New York Times Book ReviewMore

11. Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance

    Lisa Jardine

    "Fascinating. . . . A notable achievement. . . . Real history is in the details, the small stories, of which Worldly Goods is a treasure house."—Richard Bernstein, New York TimesMore

12. Teachings from the Worldly Philosophy

    Robert L. Heilbroner

    Selections from great writings on economics, annotated and introduced by a distinguished economist and teacher.More

13. Silent Depression: Twenty-Five Years of Wage Squeeze and Middle Class Decline

    Wallace C. Peterson

    Longtime observer of the American economy Wallace C. Peterson here offers a wake-up call.More

14. The Rise of China: How Economic Reform is Creating a New Superpower

    William H. Overholt

    Long considered an overpopulated, repressive, backward country, China has in the last decade entered the small circle of advanced industrial nations. Economic reform, more than any other factor, is responsible for this progress, maintains William H. Overholt in this provocative book.More

15. A New Economic View of American History: From Colonial Times to 1940

    Jeremy Atack, Peter Passell

    Second Edition

    New sources of data, together with advances in theory, offer the opportunity for a fresh look at old and new questions.More