7 Best finance books like Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy by Henry Farrell

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Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy

By: Henry Farrell

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A deeply researched investigation that reveals how the United States is like a spider at the heart …

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1. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

By: Vincent Bevins

4.28

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next   From 20… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"

-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

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2. The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War

By: Jim Sciutto

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The essential new book by CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto, reporting from the… read more

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  • politics
  • international relations
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

By: Edmund Conway

4.52

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • technology
"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

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4. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

By: Serhii Plokhy

4.30

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"

-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

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5. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

By: Chris Miller

4.44

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • technology
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

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6. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

By: Zeke Faux

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom… read more

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  • history
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • technology
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7. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

By: Mustafa Suleyman

3.86

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
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8. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

By: Yanis Varoufakis

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The #1 bestselling economist shows how capitalism has been replaced by a more exploitative system, … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • technology
"Il profitto è vulnerabile alla competizione di mercato, mentre la rendita non lo è."

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"Se non è un mercato capitalista, in cosa entriamo, buon Dio, quando andiamo su amazon.com ?"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"Oltre ad avvertirci che ogni nuova epoca forgiata da qualche tecnologia rivoluzionaria produce una generazione che “mai passerà un giorno immune da fatica e dolore, struggendosi anche di notte"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"La rivoluzione digitale potrebbe consistere nel trasformare i lavoratori salariati in proletari del cloud, che vivono una vita sempre più precaria e stressante sotto il controllo invisibile di capi a…"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

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9. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend

By: Rob Copeland

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio… read more

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  • history
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
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10. Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East

By: Uri Kaufman

4.18

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

"Pacy and enthralling." ― Financial Times "Tells the story brilliantly." ―Senator Joseph I. Lieber… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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11. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
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12. New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West

By: David E. Sanger

4.37

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A fast-paced account of America’s plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adv… read more

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  • politics
  • international relations
  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War

By: Nicholas Mulder

3.87

Format: 434 pages, Hardcover

The first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period a… read more

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  • international relations
  • history
  • politics
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
"The policy debate about sanctions has been repeated almost every decade since the [League of Nations] was created in the wake of World War I. At its core has been the perennial question: do economic …"

-Nicholas Mulder, The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War

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14. Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

By: Paul Scharre

3.80

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

One of the Next Big Idea Club's Must-Read Books An award-winning defense expert tells the story … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
Cover of Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World by Bethany Allen

15. Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World

By: Bethany Allen

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

One of the most acclaimed journalists on contemporary China lays bare the country's two decade ques… read more

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  • international relations
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
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16. End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration

By: Peter Turchin

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“Peter Turchin brings science to history. Some like it and some prefer their history plain. But eve… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy

By: Henry Farrell

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A deeply researched investigation that reveals how the United States is like a spider at the heart … read more

Similar categories in Henry Farrell's Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy book and Henry Farrell's Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy

  • international relations
  • american
  • history
  • the united states of america
  • politics
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • technology
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18. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

By: John Ganz

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more

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  • american
  • history
  • the united states of america
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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19. Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State

By: Byron Tau

4.40

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping exposé of the U.S. government’s alliance with data brokers, tech companies, and advertis… read more

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  • history
  • the united states of america
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
"Dating back to 2019, Premise had a network of more than 1,000 gig workers in the country (Ukraine) that were being asked to do tasks that they believed were innocuous market research or corporate dat…"

-Byron Tau, Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State

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20. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

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21. Paper Soldiers: How the Weaponization of the Dollar Changed the World Order

By: Saleha Mohsin

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From Bloomberg News reporter Saleha Mohsin, the untold story of how one of America’s most invincibl… read more

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  • history
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics

20 must-read history books like Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy by Henry Farrell

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If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

Vincent Bevins

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War

Jim Sciutto

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

Edmund Conway

4.52

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The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

Serhii Plokhy

4.30

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5 best-selling international relations books like Paper Soldiers: How the Weaponization of the Dollar Changed the World Order by Saleha Mohsin

Transform Your Habits

Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace

Matthew C. Klein

4.17

Transform Your Habits

New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West

David E. Sanger

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy

Henry Farrell

4.00

Transform Your Habits

World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century

Dmitri Alperovitch

4.34

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