As the title says – please suggest me a good economics/political nonfiction book! Or fiction – if there’s any ideas of perspectives to learn from the story.
I’ve studied Economics to undergraduate level and absolutely adore the subject. More specifically, I’m one of those people that love to learn about new things, and when it comes to economics, politics, culture and history I’m all for it! I’m also soon starting a job as an economist, but not in the field I enjoy, so I want to keep some aspect of the subject alive and fun for myself.
I’ve read Frank Dikötter’s three books on Mao’s China, Martin Sandbu’s ‘The Economics of Belonging’, Pippa Norris’ ‘Cultural Backlash’ and quite a few more.
I most enjoy books that don’t seem to be written with a heavy agenda leaning left or right – so none of the pop-political books pls!!! No shame to them, just not my cup of tea. I prefer something factual, especially if it’s regarding something I’m (a 21 year old in the UK) may not be as familiar with.
Any ideas? Thank you all in advance!!!
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Anything Thomas Sowell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man
*Toward the Modern Economy: Early Industry in Europe 1500-1800* by Myron P. Gutman.
*The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848* by Eric Hobsbawm.
*The Great Game: The Emergence of Wall Street as a World Power: 1653-2000* by John Steele Gordon.
*Banking Panics of the Gilded Age* by Elmus Wicker.
*Jay Cooke’s Gamble: The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873* by M. John Lubetkin.
*Democracy in Desperation: The Depression of 1893* by Douglas Steeples and David O. Whitten.
*The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market’s Perfect Storm* by Robert F. Bruner and Sean D. Carr.
*The German Slump: Politics and Economics 1924–1936* by Harold James.
*The Economic Recovery of Germany* by C.W. Guillebaud.
*German Economic Policy* by William Bauer.
*The World between the Wars, 1919-39: An Economist’s View* by Joseph S. Davis.
*The Great Crash: 1929* by John Kenneth Galbraith.
*Rethinking the Great Depression* by Gene Smiley.
*The New Deal* by Paul K. Conkin.
*The German Economy at War* by Alan S. Milward.
*All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the* [2008] *Financial Crisis* by Bethany McLean and Joseph Nocera.
Divided World Divided Class by Zak Cope
Capital and Imperialism by Utsa Patnaik
The Divide by Jason Hickel
Capital by Karl Marx
Debt the first 5000 years,
Thorstein Veblen Theory of the Leisure Class,
The Anarchy by Dalyrimple,
It’s a tragic book but Advise and Consent by Drury is excellent political fiction
May be a bit basic if you have a lot of economics background (was not for me), but Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein was a great although disturbing read
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
“Dollars for Life: The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment” by Mary Ziegler is about how the anti-abortion movement reformed campaign finance laws, resulting in the loss of control by establishment politicians. It doesn’t lean left or right, just follows money.
Value – Value(s) by Mark Carney, any of Michael Lewis’s finance books (Liars Poker, The Big Shot).