The Birth of Plenty
by William J. Bernstein | 
Empire of Wealth
by John Steele Gordon | 
The Cash Nexus
by Niall Ferguson | 
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
by Karl Polanyi | 
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War
by Robert J. Gordon |
False Economy
by Alan Beattie | 
Crashed
by Adam Tooze | 
A Splendid Exchange
by William J. Bernstein | 
Goliath
by Matt Stoller |
Capitalism and the Historians
by F. A. Hayek | 
The Ascent of Money
by Niall Ferguson | 
Global Capitalism
by Jeffry A. Frieden | 
Money
by Felix Martin | 
A Short History of Financial Euphoria
by John Kenneth Galbraith |
This Time Is Different
by Carmen M. Reinhart | 
End The Fed
by Ron Paul |
Meltdown
by Thomas E. Woods Jr. | 
I.O.U.
by John Lanchester | 
Bad Samaritans
by Ha-Joon Chang | 
The Housing Boom and Bust
by Thomas Sowell |
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations is David S. Landes's acclaimed, best-selling exploration of one of the most contentious and hotly debated questions of our time: Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The answer, as Landes definitively illustrates, is a complex interplay of cultural mores and historical circumstance. Rich with anecdotal evidence, piercing analysis, and a truly astonishing range of erudition, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations is a "picture of enormous sweep and brilliant insight" (Kenneth Arrow) as well as one of the most audaciously ambitious works of history in decades.