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- The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy — D. Cannadine
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- How Democracies Die — S. Levitsky and D. Ziblatt
- The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America — A. Reséndez
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- The Economic History of China: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century — R. von Glahn
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- The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time — K. Polanyi
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- The Road to Serfdom — F. Hayek
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- The Race Between Education and Technology: The Evolution of US Educational Wage Differentials, — C. Goldin and L. Katz
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- Inequality: What Can Be Done? — A. B. Atkinson
- Capital Rules: The Construction of Global Finance — R. Abdelal
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