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Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises

By Timothy F. Geithner

Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

By Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo

After the Storm: The World Economy and Britain's Economic Future

By Vince Cable

Oil, Power, and War: A Dark History

By Matthieu Auzanneau, Richard Heinberg

A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy

By Joel Mokyr

Direct: The Rise of the Middleman Economy and the Power of Going to the Source

By Kathryn Judge

The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest

By Edward Chancellor

More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy

By Philip Coggan

Secular Cycles

By Peter Turchin, Sergey A. Nefedov

Grain Markets in Europe, 1500-1900: Integration and Deregulation

By Karl Gunnar Persson (University of Copenhagen)

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

The Egyptian Economy: Current Challenges and Future Prospects

By Hanaa Kheir-El-Din, Ragui Assaad, Omneia Helmy, Abdallah Shehata Khattab

Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

By Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo

When Things Fall Apart: Qualitative Studies of Poverty in the Former Soviet Union

By Alexandre Marc, Nora Dudwick, Elizabeth Gomart, Kathleen Kuehnast

The Countries of the Former Soviet Union at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: The Baltic and European States in Transition

By Ian Jeffries

Whoops!: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay

By Lanchester, John

The Rice Economies: Technology and Development in Asian Societies

By Bray

The Evolution of Everything: How Small Changes Transform Our World

By Ridley, Matt

Into the Upwave: How to Prosper from Slump to Boom

By Robert C. Beckman

An Economic History of the English Garden

By Roderick Floud

The Making of the English Working Class

By E. P. Thompson

Fixing Global Finance

By Martin Wolf

Between Debt and the Devil: Money, Credit, and Fixing Global Finance

By Turner, Adair

Contesting Markets: Anthropology of Ideology, Discourse and Practice

By Roy Dilley

Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance

By Douglass C. North (Washington University, St Louis)

My Life, Our Times

By Gordon Brown

Indonesia

By Richard Robison

Crisis, Stabilization, and Economic Reform: Therapy by Consensus

By Michael Bruno (late Vice President, Development Economics and Chief Economist, late Vice President, World Bank)

International Development and the Social Sciences: Essays on the History and Politics of Knowledge

By Frederick Cooper, Randall M. Packard

Black Hole Tariffs and Endogenous Policy Theory: Political Economy in General Equilibrium

By Stephen P. Magee (University of Texas, Austin), William A. Brock (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Leslie Young (University of Texas