joint-stock company
description: business entity which is owned by shareholders
245 results
The end of history and the last man
by Francis Fukuyama · 28 Feb 2006 · 446pp · 578 words
children. But families don’t really work if they are based on liberal principles, that is, if their members regard them as they would a joint stock company, formed for their utility rather than being based on ties of duty and love. Raising children or making a marriage work through a lifetime requires
Self-Reliance and Other Essays
by Ralph Waldo Emerson · 12 Oct 1993 · 62pp · 13,939 words
’s a hard thing to do, but it’s worth it every time. I never lose when I trust myself. Ji Lee ● ● ● Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The
Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order
by Noam Chomsky · 6 Sep 2011
A History of Zionism
by Walter Laqueur · 1 Jan 1972 · 965pp · 267,053 words
carry them out, wind up the affairs of the emigrants, and organise trade and commerce in the new country. The Jewish Company would be a joint stock company, framed according to English law, with its principal centre in London and a capital of approximately £50 million. At the very beginning of his book
Virus of the Mind
by Richard Brodie · 4 Jun 2009 · 289pp · 22,394 words
146 C hapter nine C ultur al Viruses “Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The
God Is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith Is Changing the World
by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge · 31 Mar 2009 · 518pp · 143,914 words
be because we have turned them against God in much the same way as we previously poisoned their minds against American conservatives, management gurus and joint-stock companies. Having studied the tricks of the pulpit, we have repeatedly promised Fev and Amelia that salvation is just around the corner, that the book will
Are Trams Socialist?: Why Britain Has No Transport Policy
by Christian Wolmar · 19 May 2016 · 79pp · 24,875 words
that was greatly accelerated by the advent of the railways. The key financial mechanism that enabled the canals to be financed and built was the joint stock company. The concept had been around for centuries (there are competing claims in several European countries to being the first such venture) but the canal age
The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being
by William Davies · 11 May 2015 · 317pp · 87,566 words
. Anticipating Thatcherism and workfare nearly two centuries beforehand, one of Bentham’s policy recommendations was for the state to establish a National Charity Company (a joint stock company, modelled on the East India Company), which would alleviate poverty by employing hundreds of thousands of people in privately managed ‘industry houses’.21 His proposal
A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - the Last Great Battle of the American West
by James Donovan · 24 Mar 2008
colonies.) Their generosity was not repaid in kind. The settlers were soon told by their superiors — who were, after all, directors of a for-profit joint-stock company — to do whatever it took to acquire all the land they could. Indian tempers grew short after a series of humiliations and attacks (no doubt
Inheritance
by Leo Hollis · 334pp · 103,106 words
Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World
by Gaia Vince · 22 Aug 2022 · 302pp · 92,206 words
The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters
by Rose George · 13 Oct 2008 · 346pp · 101,255 words
The Blockchain Alternative: Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Theory
by Kariappa Bheemaiah · 26 Feb 2017 · 492pp · 118,882 words
The Basque History of the World
by Mark Kurlansky · 4 Jul 2010
More From Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources – and What Happens Next
by Andrew McAfee · 30 Sep 2019 · 372pp · 94,153 words
The Long Good Buy: Analysing Cycles in Markets
by Peter Oppenheimer · 3 May 2020 · 333pp · 76,990 words
Extreme Economies: Survival, Failure, Future – Lessons From the World’s Limits
by Richard Davies · 4 Sep 2019 · 412pp · 128,042 words
Triumph of the Optimists: 101 Years of Global Investment Returns
by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton · 3 Feb 2002 · 353pp · 148,895 words
Stocks for the Long Run, 4th Edition: The Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns & Long Term Investment Strategies
by Jeremy J. Siegel · 18 Dec 2007
How to Own the World: A Plain English Guide to Thinking Globally and Investing Wisely
by Andrew Craig · 6 Sep 2015 · 305pp · 98,072 words
The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World
by Linsey McGoey · 14 Sep 2019
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
by Harsha Walia · 9 Feb 2021
Paper Promises
by Philip Coggan · 1 Dec 2011 · 376pp · 109,092 words
The Big Oyster
by Mark Kurlansky · 20 Dec 2006
American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History
by Casey Michel · 23 Nov 2021 · 466pp · 116,165 words
Deep Value
by Tobias E. Carlisle · 19 Aug 2014
Investing Amid Low Expected Returns: Making the Most When Markets Offer the Least
by Antti Ilmanen · 24 Feb 2022
The Glass Half-Empty: Debunking the Myth of Progress in the Twenty-First Century
by Rodrigo Aguilera · 10 Mar 2020 · 356pp · 106,161 words
The Cable
by Gillian Cookson · 19 Sep 2012 · 136pp · 42,864 words
How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It
by Arthur Herman · 27 Nov 2001 · 510pp · 163,449 words
The Social Life of Money
by Nigel Dodd · 14 May 2014 · 700pp · 201,953 words
A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America
by Tony Horwitz · 1 Jan 2008
Liars and Outliers: How Security Holds Society Together
by Bruce Schneier · 14 Feb 2012 · 503pp · 131,064 words
The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder
by Sean McFate · 22 Jan 2019 · 330pp · 83,319 words
CultureShock! Egypt: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette (4th Edition)
by Susan L. Wilson · 20 Dec 2011
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
by Tom Standage · 1 Jan 2005 · 231pp · 72,656 words
I Never Knew That About London
by Christopher Winn · 3 Oct 2007 · 395pp · 94,764 words
The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World
by Adrian Wooldridge · 2 Jun 2021 · 693pp · 169,849 words
The Nature of Technology
by W. Brian Arthur · 6 Aug 2009 · 297pp · 77,362 words
Let them eat junk: how capitalism creates hunger and obesity
by Robert Albritton · 31 Mar 2009 · 273pp · 93,419 words
Basic Economics
by Thomas Sowell · 1 Jan 2000 · 850pp · 254,117 words
The Right to Earn a Living: Economic Freedom and the Law
by Timothy Sandefur · 16 Aug 2010 · 399pp · 155,913 words
Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World
by Steven Johnson · 15 Nov 2016 · 322pp · 88,197 words
When the Money Runs Out: The End of Western Affluence
by Stephen D. King · 17 Jun 2013 · 324pp · 90,253 words
The Ages of Globalization
by Jeffrey D. Sachs · 2 Jun 2020
Open: The Story of Human Progress
by Johan Norberg · 14 Sep 2020 · 505pp · 138,917 words
How the World Works
by Noam Chomsky, Arthur Naiman and David Barsamian · 13 Sep 2011 · 489pp · 111,305 words
Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality From Camp Meeting to Wall Street
by Jackson Lears
After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire Since 1405
by John Darwin · 5 Feb 2008 · 650pp · 203,191 words
How to Speak Money: What the Money People Say--And What It Really Means
by John Lanchester · 5 Oct 2014 · 261pp · 86,905 words
The Second Curve: Thoughts on Reinventing Society
by Charles Handy · 12 Mar 2015 · 164pp · 57,068 words
Rigged Money: Beating Wall Street at Its Own Game
by Lee Munson · 6 Dec 2011 · 236pp · 77,735 words
Branded Beauty
by Mark Tungate · 11 Feb 2012 · 290pp · 87,084 words
From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia
by Pankaj Mishra · 3 Sep 2012
Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order
by Jason Sharman · 5 Feb 2019 · 265pp · 71,143 words
About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks
by David Rooney · 16 Aug 2021 · 306pp · 84,649 words
Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British
by Jeremy Paxman · 6 Oct 2011 · 427pp · 124,692 words
Mongolia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
by Alan Sanders · 1 Feb 2016 · 122pp · 37,785 words
The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations?
by Ian Bremmer · 12 May 2010 · 247pp · 68,918 words
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
by Mehrsa Baradaran · 14 Sep 2017 · 520pp · 153,517 words
The Emperor's New Road: How China's New Silk Road Is Remaking the World
by Jonathan Hillman · 28 Sep 2020 · 388pp · 99,023 words
Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously About the Planet
by Roger Scruton · 30 Apr 2014 · 426pp · 118,913 words
Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data
by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Thomas Ramge · 27 Feb 2018 · 267pp · 72,552 words
Civilization: The West and the Rest
by Niall Ferguson · 28 Feb 2011 · 790pp · 150,875 words
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded
by Simon Winchester · 1 Jan 2003 · 582pp · 136,780 words
The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge
by Matt Ridley · 395pp · 116,675 words
Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson · 26 Jun 2017 · 472pp · 117,093 words
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson · 20 Mar 2012 · 547pp · 172,226 words
Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How to Take It Back
by Oliver Bullough · 5 Sep 2018 · 364pp · 112,681 words
Toward Rational Exuberance: The Evolution of the Modern Stock Market
by B. Mark Smith · 1 Jan 2001 · 403pp · 119,206 words
The Tyranny of Metrics
by Jerry Z. Muller · 23 Jan 2018 · 204pp · 53,261 words
Stocks for the Long Run 5/E: the Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns & Long-Term Investment Strategies
by Jeremy Siegel · 7 Jan 2014 · 517pp · 139,477 words
Money: 5,000 Years of Debt and Power
by Michel Aglietta · 23 Oct 2018 · 665pp · 146,542 words
Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
by Nicholas A. Christakis · 26 Mar 2019
Adam Smith: Father of Economics
by Jesse Norman · 30 Jun 2018
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson · 23 Sep 2019 · 809pp · 237,921 words
The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
by David C. Korten · 1 Jan 2001
The Transhumanist Reader
by Max More and Natasha Vita-More · 4 Mar 2013 · 798pp · 240,182 words
The Gun
by C. J. Chivers · 12 Oct 2010 · 845pp · 197,050 words
The Meritocracy Myth
by Stephen J. McNamee · 17 Jul 2013 · 440pp · 108,137 words
Empire of Cotton: A Global History
by Sven Beckert · 2 Dec 2014 · 1,000pp · 247,974 words
World Economy Since the Wars: A Personal View
by John Kenneth Galbraith · 14 May 1994 · 293pp · 91,412 words
Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
by Adam Greenfield · 29 May 2017 · 410pp · 119,823 words
Grave New World: The End of Globalization, the Return of History
by Stephen D. King · 22 May 2017 · 354pp · 92,470 words
Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership
by Andro Linklater · 12 Nov 2013 · 603pp · 182,826 words
Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
by Joshua B. Freeman · 27 Feb 2018 · 538pp · 145,243 words
Capital Without Borders
by Brooke Harrington · 11 Sep 2016 · 358pp · 104,664 words
A Concise History of Modern India (Cambridge Concise Histories)
by Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf · 27 Sep 2006
Railways & the Raj: How the Age of Steam Transformed India
by Christian Wolmar · 3 Oct 2018 · 375pp · 109,675 words
A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
by Witold Rybczynski · 1 Jan 1999
Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
by Shashi Tharoor · 1 Feb 2018 · 370pp · 111,129 words
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
by Niall Ferguson · 1 Jan 2002 · 469pp · 146,487 words
The Money Machine: How the City Works
by Philip Coggan · 1 Jul 2009 · 253pp · 79,214 words
Money: The Unauthorized Biography
by Felix Martin · 5 Jun 2013 · 357pp · 110,017 words
Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War
by Branko Milanovic · 9 Oct 2023
Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs
by David Bellos and Alexandre Montagu · 23 Jan 2024 · 305pp · 101,093 words
Cities in the Sky: The Quest to Build the World's Tallest Skyscrapers
by Jason M. Barr · 13 May 2024 · 292pp · 107,998 words
Energy: A Human History
by Richard Rhodes · 28 May 2018 · 653pp · 155,847 words
After the New Economy: The Binge . . . And the Hangover That Won't Go Away
by Doug Henwood · 9 May 2005 · 306pp · 78,893 words
Rummage: A History of the Things We Have Reused, Recycled and Refused To Let Go
by Emily Cockayne · 15 Aug 2020
Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet
by Klaus Schwab and Peter Vanham · 27 Jan 2021 · 460pp · 107,454 words
The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking and the Future of the Global Economy
by Mervyn King · 3 Mar 2016 · 464pp · 139,088 words
The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy
by Dani Rodrik · 23 Dec 2010 · 356pp · 103,944 words
Alistair Cooke's America
by Alistair Cooke · 1 Oct 2008 · 369pp · 121,161 words
Stealth of Nations
by Robert Neuwirth · 18 Oct 2011 · 340pp · 91,387 words
Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations
by Simon Jenkins · 28 Jul 2017 · 253pp · 69,529 words
Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back
by Douglas Rushkoff · 1 Jun 2009 · 422pp · 131,666 words
Seasteading: How Floating Nations Will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity From Politicians
by Joe Quirk and Patri Friedman · 21 Mar 2017 · 441pp · 113,244 words
Them And Us: Politics, Greed And Inequality - Why We Need A Fair Society
by Will Hutton · 30 Sep 2010 · 543pp · 147,357 words
A Pelican Introduction Economics: A User's Guide
by Ha-Joon Chang · 26 May 2014 · 385pp · 111,807 words
The Great Crash 1929
by John Kenneth Galbraith · 15 Dec 2009 · 319pp · 64,307 words
Blood, Iron, and Gold: How the Railways Transformed the World
by Christian Wolmar · 1 Mar 2010 · 424pp · 140,262 words
Why the Dutch Are Different: A Journey Into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands: From Amsterdam to Zwarte Piet, the Acclaimed Guide to Travel in Holland
by Ben Coates · 23 Sep 2015 · 300pp · 99,410 words
The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today
by Linda Yueh · 15 Mar 2018 · 374pp · 113,126 words
Does Capitalism Have a Future?
by Immanuel Wallerstein, Randall Collins, Michael Mann, Georgi Derluguian, Craig Calhoun, Stephen Hoye and Audible Studios · 15 Nov 2013 · 238pp · 73,121 words
Night Trains: The Rise and Fall of the Sleeper
by Andrew Martin · 9 Feb 2017 · 238pp · 76,544 words
What Would the Great Economists Do?: How Twelve Brilliant Minds Would Solve Today's Biggest Problems
by Linda Yueh · 4 Jun 2018 · 453pp · 117,893 words
The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest
by Edward Chancellor · 15 Aug 2022 · 829pp · 187,394 words
Water: A Biography
by Giulio Boccaletti · 13 Sep 2021 · 485pp · 133,655 words
Money: Vintage Minis
by Yuval Noah Harari · 5 Apr 2018 · 97pp · 31,550 words
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
by Rebecca Henderson · 27 Apr 2020 · 330pp · 99,044 words
Quicksilver
by Neal Stephenson · 9 Sep 2004 · 1,178pp · 388,227 words
The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations
by Jacob Soll · 28 Apr 2014 · 382pp · 105,166 words
The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession
by Peter L. Bernstein · 1 Jan 2000 · 497pp · 153,755 words
When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Rise of the Middle Kingdom
by Martin Jacques · 12 Nov 2009 · 859pp · 204,092 words
The Enigma of Capital: And the Crises of Capitalism
by David Harvey · 1 Jan 2010 · 369pp · 94,588 words
Imagining India
by Nandan Nilekani · 25 Nov 2008 · 777pp · 186,993 words
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
by Ha-Joon Chang · 26 Dec 2007 · 334pp · 98,950 words
Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business
by Rana Foroohar · 16 May 2016 · 515pp · 132,295 words
Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy
by Nathan Schneider · 10 Sep 2018 · 326pp · 91,559 words
Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown
by Philip Mirowski · 24 Jun 2013 · 662pp · 180,546 words
The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong With Banking and What to Do About It
by Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig · 15 Feb 2013 · 726pp · 172,988 words
The Rough Guide to Toronto
by Helen Lovekin and Phil Lee · 29 Apr 2006 · 257pp · 56,811 words
Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol
by Iain Gately · 30 Jun 2008 · 686pp · 201,972 words
Masters of Management: How the Business Gurus and Their Ideas Have Changed the World—for Better and for Worse
by Adrian Wooldridge · 29 Nov 2011 · 460pp · 131,579 words
More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy
by Philip Coggan · 6 Feb 2020 · 524pp · 155,947 words
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari · 1 Jan 2011 · 447pp · 141,811 words
Kicking Awaythe Ladder
by Ha-Joon Chang · 4 Sep 2000 · 192pp
Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
by Matthew C. Klein · 18 May 2020 · 339pp · 95,270 words
The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
by David Abulafia · 2 Oct 2019 · 1,993pp · 478,072 words
Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World
by Andrew Lambert · 1 Oct 2018 · 618pp · 160,006 words
The Enablers: How the West Supports Kleptocrats and Corruption - Endangering Our Democracy
by Frank Vogl · 14 Jul 2021 · 265pp · 80,510 words
On Grand Strategy
by John Lewis Gaddis · 3 Apr 2018 · 461pp · 109,656 words
The Trains Now Departed: Sixteen Excursions Into the Lost Delights of Britain's Railways
by Michael Williams · 6 May 2015 · 332pp · 102,372 words
The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind
by Raghuram Rajan · 26 Feb 2019 · 596pp · 163,682 words
Dear Chairman: Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder Activism
by Jeff Gramm · 23 Feb 2016 · 384pp · 103,658 words
Flight of the WASP
by Michael Gross · 562pp · 177,195 words
The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
by Katharina Pistor · 27 May 2019 · 316pp · 117,228 words
The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution
by Charles R. Morris · 1 Jan 2012 · 456pp · 123,534 words
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
by Chrystia Freeland · 11 Oct 2012 · 481pp · 120,693 words
China's Superbank
by Henry Sanderson and Michael Forsythe · 26 Sep 2012
Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk
by Satyajit Das · 14 Oct 2011 · 741pp · 179,454 words
The Divided Nation: A History of Germany, 1918-1990
by Mary Fulbrook · 14 Oct 1991 · 934pp · 135,736 words
Making It Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the Men Who Blew Up the British Economy
by Iain Martin · 11 Sep 2013 · 387pp · 119,244 words
McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld
by Misha Glenny · 7 Apr 2008 · 487pp · 147,891 words
The system of the world
by Neal Stephenson · 21 Sep 2004 · 1,199pp · 384,780 words
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas Piketty · 10 Mar 2014 · 935pp · 267,358 words
Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems
by Didier Sornette · 18 Nov 2002 · 442pp · 39,064 words
The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism
by Joyce Appleby · 22 Dec 2009 · 540pp · 168,921 words
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
by Nancy Isenberg · 20 Jun 2016 · 709pp · 191,147 words
The Invisible Web: Uncovering Information Sources Search Engines Can't See
by Gary Price, Chris Sherman and Danny Sullivan · 2 Jan 2003 · 481pp · 121,669 words
To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland's Global Diaspora, 1750-2010
by T M Devine · 25 Aug 2011
Bad Samaritans: The Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat to Global Prosperity
by Ha-Joon Chang · 4 Jul 2007 · 347pp · 99,317 words
The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street
by Justin Fox · 29 May 2009 · 461pp · 128,421 words
Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry
by Peter Warren Singer · 1 Jan 2003 · 482pp · 161,169 words
The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
by David Abulafia · 4 May 2011 · 1,002pp · 276,865 words
The Innovation Illusion: How So Little Is Created by So Many Working So Hard
by Fredrik Erixon and Bjorn Weigel · 3 Oct 2016 · 504pp · 126,835 words
Philanthrocapitalism
by Matthew Bishop, Michael Green and Bill Clinton · 29 Sep 2008 · 401pp · 115,959 words
The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
by Joel Bakan · 1 Jan 2003
Trust: The Social Virtue and the Creation of Prosperity
by Francis Fukuyama · 1 Jan 1995 · 585pp · 165,304 words
New World, Inc.
by John Butman · 20 Mar 2018 · 490pp · 146,259 words
War and Gold: A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures, and Debt
by Kwasi Kwarteng · 12 May 2014 · 632pp · 159,454 words
Fire and Steam: A New History of the Railways in Britain
by Christian Wolmar · 1 Mar 2009 · 493pp · 145,326 words
Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Shaped the Modern World - and How Their Invention Could Make or Break the Planet
by Jane Gleeson-White · 14 May 2011 · 274pp · 66,721 words
The Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914
by Richard J. Evans · 31 Aug 2016 · 976pp · 329,519 words
Finance and the Good Society
by Robert J. Shiller · 1 Jan 2012 · 288pp · 16,556 words
Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet
by Klaus Schwab · 7 Jan 2021 · 460pp · 107,454 words
Bean Counters: The Triumph of the Accountants and How They Broke Capitalism
by Richard Brooks · 23 Apr 2018 · 398pp · 105,917 words
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
by David Graeber · 1 Jan 2010 · 725pp · 221,514 words
A Pipeline Runs Through It: The Story of Oil From Ancient Times to the First World War
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by Christian Wolmar · 29 May 2005
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - the Original Classic Edition
by Charles MacKay · 14 Jun 2012 · 343pp · 41,228 words
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
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Broken Markets: A User's Guide to the Post-Finance Economy
by Kevin Mellyn · 18 Jun 2012 · 183pp · 17,571 words
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by Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 27 Nov 2012 · 651pp · 180,162 words
Commuter City: How the Railways Shaped London
by David Wragg · 14 Apr 2010 · 369pp · 120,636 words
Running Money
by Andy Kessler · 4 Jun 2007 · 323pp · 92,135 words
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by Amy Reading · 6 Mar 2012 · 349pp · 112,333 words
Capitalism: Money, Morals and Markets
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The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy
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Dr. Johnson's London: Coffee-Houses and Climbing Boys, Medicine, Toothpaste and Gin, Poverty and Press-Gangs, Freakshows and Female Education
by Liza Picard · 1 Jan 2000 · 505pp · 137,572 words
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
by Niall Ferguson · 13 Nov 2007 · 471pp · 124,585 words
Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion
by Gareth Stedman Jones · 24 Aug 2016 · 964pp · 296,182 words
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by Martin Meredith · 1 Jan 2007 · 649pp · 181,179 words
Empire of Guns
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by H. W. Brands · 1 Jan 2000 · 961pp · 302,613 words
A History of Future Cities
by Daniel Brook · 18 Feb 2013 · 489pp · 132,734 words
Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making
by David Rothkopf · 18 Mar 2008 · 535pp · 158,863 words
Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea
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by Andy Kessler · 13 Jun 2005 · 218pp · 63,471 words
An Empire of Wealth: Rise of American Economy Power 1607-2000
by John Steele Gordon · 12 Oct 2009 · 519pp · 148,131 words
The Story of Work: A New History of Humankind
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by Jonathan Kaufman · 14 Sep 2020 · 415pp · 103,801 words
City: Urbanism and Its End
by Douglas W. Rae · 15 Jan 2003 · 537pp · 200,923 words
Layered Money: From Gold and Dollars to Bitcoin and Central Bank Digital Currencies
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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict From 1500 to 2000
by Paul Kennedy · 15 Jan 1989 · 1,477pp · 311,310 words
Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism
by Bhu Srinivasan · 25 Sep 2017 · 801pp · 209,348 words
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
by James C. Scott · 21 Aug 2017 · 349pp · 86,224 words
The Great Economists Ten Economists whose thinking changed the way we live-FT Publishing International (2014)
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The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
by Karl Polanyi · 27 Mar 2001 · 495pp · 138,188 words
The Enlightened Capitalists
by James O'Toole · 29 Dec 2018 · 716pp · 192,143 words
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by Malcolm Harris · 14 Feb 2023 · 864pp · 272,918 words
For Profit: A History of Corporations
by William Magnuson · 8 Nov 2022 · 356pp · 116,083 words
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
by Daniel Yergin · 23 Dec 2008 · 1,445pp · 469,426 words
Financial Market Meltdown: Everything You Need to Know to Understand and Survive the Global Credit Crisis
by Kevin Mellyn · 30 Sep 2009 · 225pp · 11,355 words
Investment: A History
by Norton Reamer and Jesse Downing · 19 Feb 2016
Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible
by William N. Goetzmann · 11 Apr 2016 · 695pp · 194,693 words
Wall Street: How It Works And for Whom
by Doug Henwood · 30 Aug 1998 · 586pp · 159,901 words
Money for Nothing
by Thomas Levenson · 18 Aug 2020 · 495pp · 136,714 words
The Great Race: The Global Quest for the Car of the Future
by Levi Tillemann · 20 Jan 2015 · 431pp · 107,868 words
Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles
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