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- Why Nations Fail: Th e Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. — Acemoglu, Daron, and James Robinson.
- Restoring Financial Stability. — Acharya, Viral, and Matthew Richardson.
- Guaranteed to Fail: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Debacle of Mortgage Finance. — Acharya, Viral V., Matthew Richardson, Stijn van Nieuwerburgh, and Lawrence J. White.
- Lords of Finance. — Ahamed, Liaquat.
- Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market. — Bagehot, Walter.
- Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself. — Bair, Sheila.
- Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street while Rescuing Wall Street. — Barofsky, Neil.
- Guardians of Finance: Making Regulators Work for Us. — Barth, James R., Gerard Caprio Jr., and Ross Levine.
- Banks and Bad Debts: Accounting for Loan Losses in International Banking — Beattie, Vivien, Charles Sutcliff e, Richard Dale, Peter Casson, and George McKenzie.
- Corporate Finance — Berk, Jonathan, and Peter DeMarzo.
- Th e Story of the Bank of England. — Bowman, William D.
- Other People’s Money, and How the Bankers Use It. — Brandeis, Louis Dembitz.
- Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World. — Cohan, William D.
- When States Go Broke: Th e Origins, Context, and Solutions for the American States in Fiscal Crisis. — Conti-Brown, Peter, and David Skeel, eds.
- Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk. — Das, Satyajit.
- Traders, Guns and Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives. — Das, Satyajit.
- Th e Devil’s Derivatives: Th e Untold Story of the Slick Traders and Hapless Regulators Who Almost Blew Up Wall Street . . . and Are Ready to Do It Again. — Dunbar, Nicholas.
- Golden Fetters: Th e Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919–1939. — Eichengreen, Barry J.
- Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America. — Ferguson, Charles H.
- Th e Rise of Mutual Funds. — Fink, Matthew P.
- Finance Capitalism and Germany’s Rise to Industrial Power. — Fohlin, Caroline.
- A Program for Monetary Stability. — Friedman, Milton.
- Th e Optimum Quantity of Money and Other Essays. — Friedman, Milton.
- Free to Choose: A Personal Statement. — Friedman, Milton, and Rose Friedman.
- A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960. — Friedman, Milton, and Anna Schwartz.
- Beyond Mechanical Markets: Asset Price Swings, Risk, and the Role of the State. — Frydman, Roman, and Michael D. Goldberg.
- Th e Evolution of Central Banks. — Goodhart, Charles A. E.
- Unsettled Account: Th e Evolution of Banking in the Industrialized World since 1800. — Grossman, Richard S.
- Th e Twilight of the Elites: America aft er Meritocracy. — Hayes, Christopher.
- Th e Fall of Enron — Healy, Paul M., and Krishna G. Palepu.
- In Financial Markets and Financial Crises — R. Glenn Hubbard.
- Th is Borrowed Earth: Lessons from the Fift een Worst Environmental Disasters around the World. — Hernan, Robert.
- Risk Management and Financial Institutions. — Hull, John.
- Borrow: Th e American Way of Debt. — Hyman, Louis.
- 13 Bankers: Th e Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown. — Johnson, Simon, and James Kwak.
- Th e Gathering Crisis in Federal Deposit Insurance. — Kane, Edward.
- Th e S & L Insurance Mess: How Did It Happen? — Kane, Edward.
- A Financial History of Western Europe. — Kindleberger, Charles P.
- Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises. — Kindleberger, Charles P.
- Jimmy Stewart Is Dead: Ending the World’s Financial Plague before It Strikes Again. — Kotlikoff , Laurence J.
- Resolution of Banking Crises: Th e Good, the Bad and the Ugly — Laeven, Luc, and Fabian Valencia.
- Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop It. — Lessig, Lawrence.
- Liar’s Poker: Rising through the Wreckage on Wall Street. — Lewis, Michael.
- Th e Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. — Lewis, Michael.
- Boomerang: Travels in the New Th ird World. — Lewis, Michael.
- Th e Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages, 950–1350. — Lopez, Robert S.
- Courting Failure. — LoPucki, Lynn.
- When Genius Failed. — When Genius Failed.
- More Money than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite. — Mallaby, Sebastian.
- Exile on Wall Street: One Analyst’s Fight to Save the Big Banks from Th emselves — Mayo, Mike.
- Th e Smartest Guys in the Room: Th e Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron. — McLean, Bethany, and Peter Elkind.
- All the Devils Are Here: Th e Hidden History of the Financial Crisis. — McLean, Bethany, and Joe Nocera.
- Th e New Lombard Street. — Mehrling, Perry.
- Why Capitalism? — Meltzer, Allan.
- Th e Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Institutions. — Mishkin, Frederic S.
- Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon. — Morgenson, Gretchen, and Joshua Rosner.
- Th e Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Th eory of Groups — Olson, Mancur.
- Th e Rise and Decline of Nations. — Olson, Mancur.
- Infectious Greed: How Deceit and Risk Corrupted the Financial Markets. — Partnoy, Frank.
- Th e Hellhound of Wall Street: How Ferdinand Pecora’s Investigation of the Great Crash Forever Changed American Finance. — Perino, Michael.
- Too Big to Save? How to Fix the U.S. Financial System. — Pozen, Robert C.
- Th is Time Is Diff erent: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly. — Reinhart, Carmen M., and Kenneth Rogoff .
- Asymmetric Information, Corporate Finance and Investment — R. Glenn Hubbard.
- Dealings: A Political and Financial Life. — Rohatyn, Felix G.
- Th e Leaderless Revolution: How Ordinary People Can Take Power and Change Politics in the 21st Century. — Ross, Carne.
- Th e Mystery of Banking — Th e Mystery of Banking
- Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance. — Roubini, Nouriel, and Stephen Mihm.
- Th e Subprime Solution: How Today’s Financial Crisis Happened and What to Do about It. — Shiller, Robert.
- Casino Capitalism: How the Financial Crisis Came About and What Needs to Be Done Now. — Sinn, Hans-Werner.
- Th e New Financial Deal: Understanding the Dodd-Frank Act and Its (Unintended) Consequences. — Skeel, David A. Jr.
- ECONned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism. — Smith, Yves.
- Too Big to Fail: Th e Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Th emselves. — Sorkin, Andrew Ross.
- Why Some Firms Th rive while Others Fail: Governance and Management Lessons from the Crisis. — Stanton, Th omas H.
- Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy. — Stiglitz, Joseph E.
- Th e Shareholder Value Myth: How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, and the Public. — Stout, Lynn.
- Fooled by Randomness: Th e Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and in Life. — Taleb, Nassim N.
- Th e Black Swan, Second Edition: Th e Impact of the Highly Improbable, with a New Section: On Robustness and Fragility. — Taleb, Nassim N.
- Banking on Basel: Th e Future of International Financial Regulation. — Tarullo, Daniel K.
- Fool’s Gold: How the Bold Dreams of a Small Tribe at J. P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe. — Tett, Gillian.
- Economics aft er the Crisis: Objectives and Means. — Turner, Adair.
- Naked Economics: Understanding the Dismal Science. N — Wheelan, Charles.
- Th e S&L Debacle: Public Policy Lessons for Bank and Th rift Regulation. — White, Lawrence J.
- A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity. — Zingales, Luigi.
- Th e Greatest Trade Ever: Th e Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defi ed Wall Street and Made Financial History. — Zuckerman, Gregory.