The Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas
By: Janek Wasserman
3.95
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A group history of the Austrian School of Economics, from the coffeehouses of imperial Vienna to th…
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1. Medieval Europe
By: Chris Wickham
3.72
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and h… read more
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2. Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
By: Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
3.79
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to … read more
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3. Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
By: Henry Hazlitt
3.69
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A million copy seller, Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lessonis a classic economic primer. But it … read more
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4. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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5. The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
By: Dennis C. Rasmussen
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships--and how it influenced modern thought Da… read more
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6. On Anarchism
By: Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Paperback
We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more
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7. Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
By: Tony Judt
4.37
Format: 933 pages, Paperback
Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of th… read more
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"Broken eggs make good omelettes. But you cannot build a better society on broken men."-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
"Far from addressing the Soviet nationalities question, the Afghan adventure had, as was by now all too clear, exacerbated it. If the USSR faced an intractable set of national minorities, this was in …"-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
"The imposition of a Russian rather than a German solution cut Europe’s vulnerable eastern half away from the body of the continent. At the time this was not a matter of great concern to western Europ…"-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
"Maastricht had three significant side-effects. One of them was the unforeseen boost it gave to NATO. Under the restrictive terms of the Treaty it was clear (as the French at least had intended) that …"-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
8. The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce
By: Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
For a century and a half, the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scorned the bourgeoisie. And… read more
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9. Philosophy and Real Politics
By: Raymond Geuss
3.97
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Many contemporary political thinkers are gripped by the belief that their task is to develop an ide… read more
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10. Moneyball
By: Michael Lewis
4.26
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had… read more
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"Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,"-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages."-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]"-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different."-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
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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. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
By: Ellen Meiksins Wood
3.44
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extensi… read more
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14. The Enlightenment: And Why It Still Matters
By: Anthony Pagden
4.10
Format: None pages, ebook
One of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellect… read more
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15. Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization
By: Branko Milanović
3.81
Format: 329 pages, Hardcover
One of the world s leading economists of inequality, Branko Milanovic presents a bold new account o… read more
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16. The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
By: Stacy Schiff
3.74
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, “Samuel Adams was the man… read more
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17. Fleishman Is in Trouble
By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
3.64
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
Recently separated Toby Fleishman is suddenly, somehow – and at age forty-one, short as ever – surr… read more
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"I went back to the bench and lit a cigarette and inhaled, the smoke entering my body and filling it with poison, with something."-Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble
"They became sophisticated in a way that she wasn’t-in a way she’d never be because sophistication is either your first language or you always have an accent in it."-Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble
"I didn’t like the dark matter part. I feel like you can’t just decide something must exist because everything’s reacting to it. You can’t just give it a name and hope it’s true."-Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble
"He understood divorce in a macro way, of course. But he had not yet adjusted to it in a micro way, in the other-side-of-the-bed-being-empty way, in the nobody-to-tell-you-were-running-late way, in th…"-Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble
18. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
By: Tom Holland
4.26
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more
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"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
19. Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.21
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
Una suggestiva indagine dei meccanismi profondi che regolano la nostra esistenza, le decisioni che … read more
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"Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
20. Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
By: Tobias Hürter
4.42
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
The epic true story of how a global team of physics luminaries—Einstein, Curie, Schrödinger, and mo… read more
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21. Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative
By: Jennifer Burns
4.26
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography of America's most renowned economist. Milton Friedman was, alongside J… read more
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22. More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources―and What Happens Next
By: Andrew McAfee
3.90
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Second Machine Age , a compelling argument—m… read more
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23. The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790
By: Ritchie Robertson
4.27
Format: 985 pages, Hardcover
This magisterial history—sure to become the definitive work on the subject—recasts the Enlightenmen… read more
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"When different religion managed to coexist peacefully for a long period, the visibility of other religion tended to weaken one's conviction of the unique excellence of one's own."-Ritchie Robertson, The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790
24. How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time
By: Matt Ridley
4.11
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements… read more
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25. How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth
By: Mark Koyama
4.24
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Most humans are significantly richer than their ancestors. Humanity gained nearly all of its wealth… read more
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26. The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism
By: Matt Zwolinski
4.16
Format: 417 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping history of libertarian thought, from radical anarchists to conservative defenders of the… read more
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27. Free Market: The History of an Idea
By: Jacob Soll
3.72
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From a MacArthur “Genius,” an intellectual history of the free market, from ancient Rome to the twe… read more
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"Smith’s concept of the mercantile system evolved—completely out of context—into the modern concept of mercantilism: a simplistic, blanket economic term used to characterize early modern economic thin…"-Jacob Soll, Free Market: The History of an Idea
"Around the same time that Goldwater lost his bid for the presidency, the TV evangelicals Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell joined the libertarian, far-right wing of the Republican Party. They called fo…"-Jacob Soll, Free Market: The History of an Idea
28. The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century
By: Helena Rosenblatt
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a political creed that h… read more
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29. Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars
By: Tara Zahra
3.99
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, eye-opening work of history that speaks volumes about today’s battles over internation… read more
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30. The Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas
By: Janek Wasserman
3.95
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A group history of the Austrian School of Economics, from the coffeehouses of imperial Vienna to th… read more
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31. There's No Such Thing as "The Economy": Essays on Capitalist Value
By: Samuel A. Chambers
4.13
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Every Economics textbook today teaches that questions of values and morality lie outside of, are in… read more
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