18 best-selling history books like Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future by Paul Krugman

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Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future

By: Paul Krugman

3.86

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

There is no better guide than Paul Krugman to basic economics, the ideas that animate much of our p…

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1. The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower

By: Michael Pillsbury

4.21

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

One of the U.S. government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country… read more

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  • history
  • politics
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  • economics
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  • audiobook
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2. The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

By: Sam Harris

3.90

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

In The End of Faith, Sam Harris delivers a startling analysis of the clash between reason and relig… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love"

-Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

"Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance."

-Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

"120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer."

-Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

"Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction."

-Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

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3. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

By: Robert D. Putnam

3.77

Format: 67 pages,

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  • politics
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4. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

By: Cass R. Sunstein , Richard H. Thaler

3.84

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

From the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics, Richard H. Thaler, and Cass R. Sunstein: a r… read more

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  • politics
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"Just as no building lacks an architecture, so no choice lacks a context."

-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

"As good architects know, seemingly arbitrary decisions, such as where to locate the bathrooms, will have subtle influences on how the people who use the building interact. Every trip to the bathroom …"

-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

5. The Affluent Society

By: John Kenneth Galbraith

3.86

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

John Kenneth Galbraith's international bestseller The Affluent Society is a witty, graceful and dev… read more

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  • history
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6. Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few

By: Robert B. Reich

3.15

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the author of Aftershockand The Work of Nations, his most important book to date--a passionate… read more

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7. Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race

By: Josh Lieb , David Javerbaum , Jon Stewart , Steve Bodow , None , Tim Carvell , None , Jason Ross , Elliott Kalan , Daniel Radosh , Kevin Bleyer , None , None , None , None , None , John Oliver

3.99

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited new book from the Emmy-winning, Oscar-hosting, Daily Show-anchoring Jon Stewart… read more

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8. Capital in the Twenty-First Century

By: Thomas Piketty , Arthur Goldhammer

4.61

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions abou… read more

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9. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

By: None

4.12

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I see [Raworth] as the John Maynard Keynes of the 21st Century: by ref… read more

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10. Economic Facts and Fallacies

By: Thomas Sowell

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Economic Facts and Fallaciesexposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues-and do… read more

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11. Irrational Exuberance

By: Robert J. Shiller

3.76

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

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12. The Road to Serfdom

By: Friedrich A. Hayek

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road … read more

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

By: Abhijit V. Banerjee , Esther Duflo

4.07

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2011 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Best Business Book of the Year Award Billions of g… read more

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14. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

By: Niall Ferguson

3.69

Format: 47 pages,

"Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it… read more

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15. The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty

By: Daron Acemoğlu

4.23

Format: 560 pages, Kindle Edition

'A must-read. Acemoglu and Robinson are intellectual heavyweights of the first rank . . . erudite a… read more

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  • history
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  • political science
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  • society
"The only way of achieving durable liberty is to . . . forge the balance necessary for building a Shackled Leviathan. True liberty can flourish neither without a state nor under the yoke of a Despotic…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty

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16. Quantum Supremacy

By: Michio Kaku

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating tour of humanity's next great technological achievement—quantum computing—which may… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

By: Anna Fifield

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The behind-the-scenes story of the rise and reign of the world's strangest and most elusive tyrant,… read more

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  • politics
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  • audiobook
"Kim Jong Chol even found a way to work the Belgian movie star into his school work. "If I had my idea world I would not allow weapons and atom bombs any more," he wrote in a school project while in B…"

-Anna Fifield, The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

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18. The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis

By: George Stephanopoulos

4.45

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor… read more

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  • politics
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19. Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

By: Abhijit V. Banerjee

4.23

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of … read more

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"The bottom line is that, much as in rich countries, we have no accepted recipe for how to make growth happen in poor countries. Even the experts seem to have accepted this. In 2006, the World Bank as…"

-Abhijit V. Banerjee, Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

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20. These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America

By: Gretchen Morgenson

3.70

Format: 400 pages, ebook

WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times bestselling financial jour… read more

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21. Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World

By: Carl T. Bergstrom

4.11

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Bullshit isn't what it used to be. Now, two science professors give us the tools to dismantle misin… read more

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"Перефразовуючи Алена Ґінзберґа, програміст і бізнесмен Джеф Гаммербахер 2011 року гірко зауважив, що «найсвітліші голови мого покоління думають, як змусити людей клацати на оголошення в інтернеті, — …"

-Carl T. Bergstrom, Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World

"People worry that AI has surpassed humans, but we doubt AI will claim this award anytime soon. One might think that the TED brand of bullshit is just a cocktail of sound-bite science, management-spea…"

-Carl T. Bergstrom, Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World

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22. They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency

By: Malcolm W. Nance

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

NOW A NEW YORK TIMES, LOS ANGELES TIMES, USA TODAY AND GREAT LAKES INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLER ASSOCIATI… read more

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23. Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World

By: Ha-Joon Chang

3.84

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Edible Economics brings the sort of creative fusion that spices up a great kitchen to the often too… read more

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24. Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future

By: Paul Krugman

3.86

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

There is no better guide than Paul Krugman to basic economics, the ideas that animate much of our p… read more

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25. Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World

By: Yepoka Yeebo

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The astounding, never-before-told story of how an audacious Ghanaian con artist pulled off one of t… read more

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26. Red Flags: Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy

By: George Magnus

3.72

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

A trusted economic commentator provides a penetrating account of the threats to China's continued e… read more

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27. Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History

By: Nur Masalha

4.04

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For centuries, the land of Palestine has been fought over by competing faiths, nations and empires.… read more

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28. A Brief History of Equality

By: Thomas Piketty

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The world's leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimist… read more

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"The idea that each country–or worse yet–each person in each country is individually responsible for its production and its wealth, makes little sense from a historical point of view. All wealth is co…"

-Thomas Piketty, A Brief History of Equality

"The growth of wealth in the Western world, like that in Japan or China, has long been based on the international division of labor and the feverish exploitation of natural and human resources worldwi…"

-Thomas Piketty, A Brief History of Equality

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29. The Delusions Of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups

By: William J. Bernstein

3.58

Format: 576 pages, Paperback

From the award-winning author of A Splendid Exchange, a fascinating new history of financial and re… read more

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Transform Your Habits

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

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3.84

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Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few

Robert B. Reich

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Quantum Supremacy

Michio Kaku

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Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism

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The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies

Mariana Mazzucato

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The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes

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The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era

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