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The Bridge in the Jungle

Dr. Strangelove's Game: A Brief History of Economic Genius

By Paul Strathern

Galbraith Reader

By John Kenneth Galbraith

Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue: Tax Follies and Wisdom through the Ages

By Michael Keen, Joel Slemrod

The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism

By Clara E. Mattei

Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600-1850

By Prasannan Parthasarathi (Boston College, Massachusetts)

Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts and the Death of Freedom

By Grace Blakeley

Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation

By Richard Sennett

States, Debt, and Power: 'Saints' and 'Sinners' in European History and Integration

By Kenneth Dyson (Research Professor, Research Professor, School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University)

A History of Capitalism: 1500-2000

By Michel Beaud

Alternative Agriculture: A History: From the Black Death to the Present Day

By Joan Thirsk (former President, former President, British Agricultural History Society)

Teesside Steel: The Final Years

By Mike Guess

Middlesbrough's Iron and Steel Industry

By Dr. Joan Heggie

Just Capital

By Adair Turner

Faversham At Work: People and Industries Through the Years

By Robert Turcan

Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898

By Mike Wallace (Professor of History, Professor of History, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York), Edwin G. Burrows (Professor of History, Brooklyn College

Jesus and Money

By Ben Witherington, III

The Dynamics of Socio-Economic Development: An Introduction

By Adam Szirmai (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

The Corporation That Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational

By Nick Robins

The Impartial Spectator: Adam Smith's Moral Philosophy

By D. D. Raphael (Emeritus, Imperial College, London)

The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism

By Joyce Appleby (UCLA)

Adam Smith in His Time and Ours: Designing the Decent Society

By Jerry Z. Muller

The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present

By Jan de Vries (University of California, Berkeley)

The Bourgeois Virtues - Ethics for an Age of Commerce

By Deirdre N Mccloskey

Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World

By Deirdre N. McCloskey

Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street

By Tomas Sedlacek

Trust: The New Foundations of Global Prosperity

By Francis Fukuyama

After Capitalism: Rethinking Economic Relationships

The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters

By Diane Coyle

The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism

By Robert William Fogel