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The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
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The Great Transformation

By Karl Polanyi ,

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The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
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The Anarchy

By William Dalrymple ,

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The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China from the Bottom Up
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The Corpse Walker

By Liao Yiwu ,

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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order

By Ray Dalio ,

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Post-Capitalist Society
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Post-Capitalist Society

By Peter F. Drucker ,

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Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World
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Encountering Development

By Arturo Escobar ,

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A Theory of Economic History
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A Theory of Economic History

By Sir John R. Hicks ,

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Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain 850-1520
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Making a Living in the Middle Ages

By Christopher Dyer ,

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The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931
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The Deluge

By Adam Tooze ,

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Tristram Shandy
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Tristram Shandy

By Laurence Sterne ,

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The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism Before Its Triumph
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The Passions and the Interests

By Albert O. Hirschman ,

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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
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The Ascent of Money

By Niall Ferguson ,

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Between Two Cultures: An Introduction to Economic History
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Between Two Cultures

By Carlo M. Cipolla , Christopher Woodall (translator) ,

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India Transformed: Twenty-Five Years of Economic Reforms
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India Transformed

By Rakesh Mohan (editor) ,

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Wealth Explosion: The Nature and Origins of Modernity
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Wealth Explosion

By Stephen Davies ,

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Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area
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Pictures of a Gone City

By Richard A. Walker ,

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Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy
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Shutdown

By Adam Tooze ,

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How Did We Get Into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature
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How Did We Get Into This Mess?

By George Monbiot ,

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Living in the End Times
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Living in the End Times

By Slavoj Zizek ,

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Unveiling the North Korean Economy: Collapse and Transition
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Unveiling the North Korean Economy

By Byung-Yeon Kim ,

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The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History
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The Great Wave

By David Hackett Fischer ,

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The Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages, 950-1350
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The Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages, 950-1350

By Robert S. Lopez ,

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Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life
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Cities and the Wealth of Nations

By Jane Jacobs ,

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A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy
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A Culture of Growth

By Joel Mokyr ,

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An Extraordinary Time: The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy
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An Extraordinary Time

By Marc Levinson ,

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ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age
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ReOrient

By Andre Gunder Frank ,

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Insecure Gulf: The End of Certainty and the Transition to the Post-oil Era
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Insecure Gulf

By Kristian Coates Ulrichsen ,

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A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World
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A Farewell to Alms

By Gregory Clark ,

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The World Economy: History and Prospect
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The World Economy

By W. W. Rostow ,

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Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius
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Grand Pursuit

By Sylvia Nasar ,

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The Economy of Obligation: The Culture of Credit and Social Relations in Early Modern England
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The Economy of Obligation

By Craig Muldrew ,

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The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce
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The Bourgeois Virtues

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Good Economics for Hard Times
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Good Economics for Hard Times

By Abhijit V Banerjee , Esther Duflo ,

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The Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages
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The Medieval Machine

By Jean Gimpel ,

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An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire
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An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire

By Halil Inalcik ,

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Money and Empire: The International Gold Standard, 1890-1914
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Money and Empire

By Marcello De Cecco ,

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Slouching Toward Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
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Slouching Toward Utopia

By J. Bradford DeLong ,

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Pre-Industrial Societies: Anatomy of the Pre-Modern World
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Pre-Industrial Societies

By Patricia Crone ,

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Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice
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Collective Courage

By Jessica Gordon Nembhard ,

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Capitalism: A Short History
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Capitalism

By Jurgen Kocka ,

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The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times
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The Long Twentieth Century

By Giovanni Arrighi ,

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Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
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Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance

By Douglass C. North ,

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The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present
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The World That Trade Created

By Kenneth Pomeranz , Steven Topik ,

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Manufacturing Decline: How Racism and the Conservative Movement Crush the American Rust Belt
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Manufacturing Decline

By Jason Hackworth ,

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Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United States
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Ages of American Capitalism

By Jonathan Levy ,

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Before European Hegemony: The World System AD 1250-1350
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Before European Hegemony

By Janet L. Abu-Lughod ,

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

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The New Roaring Twenties: Prosper in Volatile Times
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The New Roaring Twenties

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Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing
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Sunbelt Blues

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Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century
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Global Capitalism

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False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism
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False Dawn

By John Gray ,

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Guns, Germs and Steel
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Guns, Germs and Steel

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Capitalism and Its Critics
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Capitalism and Its Critics

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The Book of the Art of Trade
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The Book of the Art of Trade

By John Francis Phillimore (translator) , Carlo Carraro (editor) , Giovanni Favero (editor)

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