Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War
By: Branko Milanović
4.09
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
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1. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
By: Joseph E. Stiglitz , Karl Polanyi , None
4.83
Format: 28 pages, Paperback
In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and … read more
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2. The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism Before Its Triumph
By: Albert O. Hirschman
3.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eight… read more
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3. American Pastoral
By: Philip Roth
3.94
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Pulitzer Prize Winner (1998) In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified g… read more
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"Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive."-Philip Roth, American Pastoral
"The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy."-Philip Roth, American Pastoral
"Exhibitionismul inerent unei marturisiri nu face decat sa agraveze suferinta."-Philip Roth, American Pastoral
"[...] ero una biografia in moto perpetuo, memoria sino al midollo delle ossa."-Philip Roth, American Pastoral
4. 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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"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
5. Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
By: Adam Tooze
None
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
"An intelligent explanation of the mechanisms that produced the crisis and the response to it...One… read more
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6. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
By: Lea Ypi
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more
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"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
7. Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
By: Daron Acemoğlu
3.90
Format: None pages, Audiobook
The bestselling co-author of Why Nations Fail and the bestselling co-author of 13 Bankers deliver a… read more
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8. Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine
By: David H. Petraeus
4.06
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
Two leading authorities—an acclaimed historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strate… read more
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"A recurring theme of this book is that money spent on deterrence is seldom wasted, especially when considered against the costs incurred when the deterrence fails."-David H. Petraeus, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine
"Hybrid warfare particularly appeals to China and Russia, since they are much more able to control the information their populaces receive than are their Western adversaries. A 1999 book, Unrestricted…"-David H. Petraeus, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine
9. Huaco retrato
By: Gabriela Wiener
3.89
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
La muerte de su padre y los fantasmas de su herencia marcan el retorno de Wiener con esta exploraci… read more
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10. Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity
By: Claudia Goldin
4.23
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics A renowned economic historian traces women’s journey t… read more
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11. Los escorpiones
By: Sara Barquinero
3.67
Format: 963 pages, Kindle Edition
LA MONUMENTAL NOVELA DE UNA GENERACIÓN La joven Sara Barquinero, elogiada por Carlos Zanón, Nuri… read more
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12. 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
13. Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory (New Directions in Critical Theory, 17)
By: Enzo Traverso
4.09
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War but also the rise of a melancholic visio… read more
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14. A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021
By: Alan S. Blinder
4.27
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author, the fascinating story of U.S. economic policy from Kenn… read more
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15. How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate (Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy)
By: Isabella M. Weber
4.33
Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition
China has become deeply integrated into the world economy. Yet, gradual marketization has facilitat… read more
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16. We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience
By: Lyndsey Stonebridge
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A timely guide on how to live—and think—through the challenges of our century drawn from the life a… read more
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17. As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West
By: Guido Alfani
3.97
Format: 440 pages, Hardcover
How the rich and the super-rich throughout Western history accumulated their wealth, behaved (or mi… read more
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"[The rich] are like the pearl in the oyster: shiny indeed, and produced by the living body of the oyster, but at the same time somewhat extraneous to the organism."-Guido Alfani, As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West
18. The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism
By: Fritz Bartel
4.46
Format: 440 pages, Hardcover
A powerful case that the economic shocks of the 1970s hastened both the end of the Cold War and the… read more
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19. Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War
By: Branko Milanović
4.09
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and original history of how economists across two centuries have thought about inequalit… read more
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20. Desiguales. Una Historia de la Desigualdad en México
By: Diego Castañeda Garza
4.55
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
La desigualdad en todas sus expresiones se ha vuelto uno de los problemas más importantes en el sig… read more
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21. The Rich: From Slaves to Super Yachts: A 2000-Year History
By: John Kampfner
3.81
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
From the Orwell Prize shortlisted author of Freedom for Sale, The Rich is the fascinating history o… read more
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