Economic history

History of money[edit]

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  Christine Desan, Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism (2014)
  
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  William N. Goetzmann, Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible (2016)
  
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  David Graeber, Debt: The First 5000 Years (2011)
  

Business history[edit]

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  David Cannadine, Mellon: An American Life (2006)
  
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  Alfred D. Chandler Jr., The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (1977)
  
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  Ron Chernow, The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance (1990)
  
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  Ron Chernow, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (1998)
  
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  William D. Cohan, Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World
  
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  Naomi Lamoreaux, The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895–1904 (1985)
  
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  David Nasaw, Andrew Carnegie (2006)
  
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  Jean Strouse, Morgan: American Financier (1999)
  

Financial history[edit]

Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013)

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  Liaquat Ahamed, Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (2009)
  
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  Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea (2013)
  
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  Charles W. Calomiris and Stephen H. Haber, Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit (2014)
  
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  Barry Eichengreen, Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System (2010)
  
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  Barry Eichengreen, Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System (1996)
  
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  Niall Ferguson, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (2008)
  
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  Harold James, International Monetary Cooperation Since Bretton Woods (1996)
  
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  Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff, This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly (2009)
  
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  Benn Steil, The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order (2013)
  
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  Adam Tooze, The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy (2006)