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The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson
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Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient …
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Age Of Capital: 1848-1875 by Eric Hobsbawm
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The Age of Capital: 1848–1875 is a book by Eric Hobsbawm, first published in 1975. It is the second in …
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Debt: the first 5,000 years by David Graeber
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"Before there was money, there was debt. Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous …
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Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed
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With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers unforgettable portraits …
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Economic Weapon by Nicholas Mulder
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Economic sanctions dominate the landscape of world politics today. First developed in the early twentieth century as a way of …
