Economic history

Foundational works[edit]

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  Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz, A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960 (1963)
  
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  Friedrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (1944)
  
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  Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (1867)
  
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  Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: Origins of Our Time (1944)
  
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  David Ricardo, On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817)
  
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  Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)
  

General[edit]

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  Robert C. Allen, Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction (2011)
  
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  Gregory Clark, A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World (2007)
  
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  Kevin O'Rourke and Ronald Findlay, Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium (2007)
  
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  Robert Heilbroner, The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers (1953)
  

Ancient economies[edit]

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  Moses Finley, The Ancient Economy (1973)
  
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  Walter Scheidel, The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (2017)
  
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  Peter Temin, The Roman Market Economy (2012)
  

Economic growth and development[edit]

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  Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (2012)
  
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  Alexander Gerschenkron, Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective: A Book of Essays (1962)
  
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  Robert J. Gordon, The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War (2016)
  
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  David S. Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are So Rich and Some So Poor (1998)
  
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  Joel Mokyr, The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress (1990)
  
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  Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (2000)
  
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  Walt Whitman Rostow, The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto (1971)
  
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  Jeffrey Sachs, The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (2005)
  
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  Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom (1999)
  
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  William Easterly, The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (2006)
  
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  Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, Poor Economics (2011)