Economic history books
Highstreett has 3 reading guides and 16 book pages on economic history.
Money, trade, industry and why some nations grew rich.
Economic history reading guides and projects
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Best books about the financial crisis
Six books about the 2008 financial crisis, chosen from two Highstreett book searches: the traders who bet against it, the weekend Lehman fell, how the bonds were built, the whole cause in one book, and what came after.
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Best books about the Industrial Revolution
Six books about the Industrial Revolution, chosen from two Highstreett book searches: why it began in Britain, the inventors and the steam engine, the people who worked in the mills, a first-hand account of Manchester, and a novel of a mill town.
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Books like Why Nations Fail
Six books for readers of Why Nations Fail, chosen from two Highstreett book searches: Acemoglu and Robinson's sequel, the deep history of the state, the geography and culture arguments it rejects, and two histories of how rich countries got rich.
Economic history books recommended on Highstreett
Books Highstreett’s book search has recommended, most recommended first. Each page says what the book is and where to buy it.
- The Corporation That Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern MultinationalNick RobinsEconomic history
- The East India Company: The World's Most Powerful CorporationTirthankar RoyEconomic history
- The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So PoorDavid S. LandesEconomic history
- The East India Company: A HistoryPhilip LawsonEconomic history
- Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and PovertyDaron Acemoglu and James A. RobinsonEconomic history
- The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000Paul KennedyEconomic history
- The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World EconomyKenneth PomeranzEconomic history
- How Europe Underdeveloped AfricaWalter RodneyEconomic history
- The Roman Market EconomyPeter TeminEconomic history
- The Economic History of India, 1857–1947Tirthankar RoyEconomic history
- The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About ItPaul CollierEconomic history
- Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical PerspectiveHa-Joon ChangEconomic historyKicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical PerspectiveHa-Joon Chang
- The Empire of Cotton: A Global HistorySven BeckertEconomic history
- A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of NationsRobert BryceEconomic history
- The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's WealthTom BurgisEconomic history
- The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First CenturyWalter ScheidelEconomic history
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