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- A Monetary History of the United States — Milton Friedman and Anna J. Schwartz
- The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It — Paul Collier
- Reason and Society in the Middle Ages — Alexander Murray
- Francisco Pizarro and the Conquest of Peru — Clifford Smyth
- The Big Problem of Small Change — Thomas J. Sargent and François R. Velde
- A History of Money: From Ancient Times to the Present Day — Glyn Davies
- Money: A History — Jonathan Williams, with Joe Cribb and Elizabeth Errington
- Society and Enterprise in Old Babylonian Ur — Marc Van De Mieroop
- Debt and Economic Renewal in the Ancient Near East — Michael Hudson and Marc Van De Mieroop
- Fibonacci and the Financial Revolution — William N. Goetzmann
- The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance — John Hale
- The Medici in the Fourteenth Century — Gene A. Brucker
- Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market — Walter Bagehot
- The Evolution of Financial Services: Making Sense of the Past, Preparing for the Future — Niall Ferguson and Oliver Wyman
- Meditations of a Broomstick — Lord Rothschild
- Mountains of Debt: Crisis and Change in Renaissance Florence, Victorian Britain and Postwar America — M. Veseth
- A Free Nation Deep in Debt: The Financial Roots of Democracy — James Macdonald
- The Rise of Financial Capitalism: International Capital Markets in the Age of Reason — Larry Neal
- The World’s Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild — Niall Ferguson
- Financial Failure and Confederate Defeat — Douglas B. Ball
- Schroders: Merchants and Bankers — Richard Roberts
- The First Latin American Debt Crisis — Frank Griffith Dawson
- Money and Empire: The International Gold Standard, 1890-1914 — M. de Cecco
- The Great Disorder: Politics, Economy and Society in the German Inflation, 1914-1924 — Gerald D. Feldman
- Crowds and Power — Elias Canetti
- A Tract on Monetary Reform — John Maynard Keynes
- The Economic Consequences of the Peace — John Maynard Keynes
- Irrational Exuberance — Robert J. Shiller
- Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises — Charles P. Kindleberger
- Stocks for the Long Run: The Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns and Long-Term Investment Strategies — Jeremy J. Siegel
- Triumph of the Optimists: 101 Years of Global Investment Returns — Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Stanton
- A History of Corporate Governance 1602-2002 — Paul Frentrop
- Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium — Ronald Findlay and Kevin H. O’Rourke
- The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations that Created Modern Capital Markets — William N. Goetzmann and K. Geert Rouwenhorst
- The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age — Simon Schama
- The Worlds of the East India Company — H. V. Bowen, Margarette Lincoln and Nigel Ribgy
- The First Modern Economy: Success, Failure and Perseverance of the Dutch Economy, 1500-1815 — Jan de Vries and A. van der Woude
- John Law: Economic Theorist and PolicyMaker — Antoin E. Murphy
- Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation — Edward Chancellor
- When Washington Shut Down Wall Street: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 and the Origins of America’s Monetary Supremacy — William L. Silber
- Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939 — Barry Eichengreen
- The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World — Alan Greenspan
- The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron — Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind
- Power Failure: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron — Mimi Swartz and Sherron Watkins
- The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism — Naomi Klein
- Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk — Peter L. Bernstein
- A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World — Gregory Clark
- Economic Globalization and the Citizens’ Welfare State — Hiroto Tsukada
- Two Lucky People: Memoirs — Milton Friedman and Rose D. Friedman
- The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America’s Economic Future — Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Scott Burns
- Running on Empty: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do about It — Peter G. Peterson
- Dogs and Demons: The Fall of Modern Japan — Alex Kerr
- Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-first Century — Philip Bobbitt
- Monopoly: The World’s Most Famous Game – And How It Got That Way — Philip E. Orbanes
- Liar’s Poker — Michael Lewis
- The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else — Hernando de Soto
- The New Financial Order: Risk in the 21st Century — Robert J. Shiller
- The European Miracle: Environments, Economies and Geopolitics in the History of Europe and Asia — Eric Jones
- The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are So Rich and Some So Poor — David S. Landes
- The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy — Joel Mokyr
- The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World Economy — Kenneth Pomeranz
- Jardine Matheson: Traders of the Far East — Robert Blake
- The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order — Parag Khanna
- The Post-American World — Fareed Zakaria
- The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century — Michael D. Bordo, Claudia Goldin and Eugene N. White
- The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics — William Easterly
- Capital Rules: The Construction of Global Finance — Rawi Abdelal
- Globalization and Its Discontents — Joseph E. Stiglitz
- Confessions of an Economic Hit Man — John Perkins
- The Return of Depression Economics — Paul Krugman
- Soros: The Life, Times and Trading Secrets of the World’s Greatest Investor — Robert Slater
- The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crash of 2008 and What It Means — George Soros
- The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market — George Soros
- Inventing Money: The Story of Long-Term Capital Management — Nicholas Dunbar
- Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street — Peter Bernstein
- When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management — Roger Lowenstein
- Redefining Global Strategy: Crossing Borders in a World Where Differences Still Matter — Pankaj Ghemawat
- Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Risk, Uncertainty and Profit — Frank H. Knight
- The Social Atom: Why the Rich Get Richer, Cheaters Get Caught, and Your Neighbor Usually Looks Like You — Mark Buchanan
- Inefficient Markets: An Introduction to Behavioral Finance — Andrei Shleifer
- Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness — Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
- Capital Ideas Evolving — Peter Bernstein
- The Wisdom of Crowds — James Surowiecki
- Supercrunchers: How Anything Can Be Predicted — Ian Ayres
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds — Charles MacKay
- Capitalism, Socialism and Democrac — Joseph A. Schumpeter
- Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction and Economics — Paul Ormerod
- Learning by Doing in Markets, Firms and Countries — D. M. G. Raff and P. Temin
- Finance Capital: A Study of the Latest Phase of Capitalist Development — Rudolf Hilferding
- The Selfish Gene — Richard Dawkins