open economy
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Globalists
by Quinn Slobodian · 16 Mar 2018 · 451pp · 142,662 words
the agents of the EDU.”100 Consistent with the idea of an invisible realm of the economic discussed in Chapter 2, the government of the open economy would remain hidden from the public eye. Only the colorful—and powerless—representatives of national policy would be seen. A double government would serve as
Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead
by Kenneth Rogoff · 27 Feb 2025 · 330pp · 127,791 words
the same set of problems, including Argentina’s perennial difficulties in balancing its budget and its rigidly fixed exchange rate regime. Not only do standard open-economy macroeconomic models help crystallize some important truths, but knowing them makes it much easier to remember what you said the previous day! Being clear and
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.g., Ford Mexico sending parts to Ford USA), it becomes apparent how doubly difficult it is to enforce overly stringent capital controls in an otherwise open economy. For example, a multinational firm can get money into China by having its Chinese plant pay a high price for intermediate parts that it imports
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growth in Japan might have spilled over into the United States was made by Gauti Eggertsson, Neil Mehrotra, and Lawrence Summers, “Secular Stagnation in the Open Economy,” American Economic Review 106, no. 5 (May 2015): 503–507. This, of course, was also the point of Bernanke’s “global savings glut” speech and
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
by Quinn Slobodian · 4 Apr 2023 · 360pp · 107,124 words
across the region introduced low flat taxes on the advice of neoliberal think tanks.59 As Hoppe saw it, an Eastern Europe filled with small open economies would put pressure on the welfare programs of the West, as those economies sucked in investment and lured away manufacturing jobs. “The emergence of a
Paper Money Collapse: The Folly of Elastic Money and the Coming Monetary Breakdown
by Detlev S. Schlichter · 21 Sep 2011 · 310pp · 90,817 words
injections must always lead to economic dislocations. The international aspect of the savings glut theory is equally insufficient to help explain a crisis. In an open economy it simply doesn’t matter whether the savings are raised locally or abroad. To take the obvious example, if the Chinese lowered their present consumption
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as gold, is the potential outflow of that commodity. The money-induced economic boom will increase the demand for goods and services, and in an open economy this means also the demand for foreign goods and services. But the domestically created fiduciary media will not be accepted in foreign countries. Foreign suppliers
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the hard-to-conceal decline of a currency’s foreign exchange value can be a further and important early warning signal, in particular for an open economy. Not unlike the competition between otherwise unconnected and independent fractional-reserve banks, which at the earlier stage of monetary history, before the introduction of central
Battling Eight Giants: Basic Income Now
by Guy Standing · 19 Mar 2020
security. But it will enhance freedom and strengthen security. It must be seen as part of a new income distribution system suited to a globalizing open economy, and as part of a transformative policy package, along with new forms of collective representation and ownership. The socially and economically vulnerable will always remain
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88 North Sea oil 89–90 Nyman, Rickard 23 Oakland 96–7 Office for National Statistics (ONS) 14–15, 17, 36 Ontario, Canada 95–6 open economy 84 open ‘free’ markets 13, 15 opportunity dividend 59 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) 18, 23, 27, 31 Ormerod, Paul 23 Osborne
The Long Good Buy: Analysing Cycles in Markets
by Peter Oppenheimer · 3 May 2020 · 333pp · 76,990 words
via a collapse in the exchange rate when sterling crashed out of the ERM.1 This is a more likely option in a relatively small open economy such as the UK (or Sweden, which had a similar experience at the time), but it is harder for a large and relatively closed economy
The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age
by Tim Wu · 14 Jun 2018 · 128pp · 38,847 words
liberties, like rights of free speech and privacy, protected by the courts. But it also meant a commitment to the protection of workers, and an open economy composed of smaller firms—along with measures to break or limit the power of monopolies. Hence, if the antitrust laws might decentralize the economy, so
Creating Unequal Futures?: Rethinking Poverty, Inequality and Disadvantage
by Ruth Fincher and Peter Saunders · 1 Jul 2001 · 267pp · 79,905 words
of the development of that country’s distinctive approach to blending wages and social policy as a basis for promoting the competitiveness of a small open economy. His ideas underpinned the push for universal child care rights, a year’s paid parental leave and rights to part-time retirement. These ideas, of
Economists and the Powerful
by Norbert Haring, Norbert H. Ring and Niall Douglas · 30 Sep 2012 · 261pp · 103,244 words
to achieve this can be steep. There is no guarantee at all that you can live on the market-clearing wage (Kaufman 2009). In an open economy with exports, external demand might eventually solve the problem at low enough wages, but there is certainly no guarantee. With flexible exchange rates, the exchange
Global Governance and Financial Crises
by Meghnad Desai and Yahia Said · 12 Nov 2003
much to be desired. Consequently, there are fluctuations of up to 20 per cent within a week. The effects of such huge swings on smaller open economies are not well understood, though they are expected to simply adjust to such changes. Since the East Asian crisis, the discussion on international financial reform
Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes
by Mark Skousen · 22 Dec 2006 · 330pp · 77,729 words
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
by Raghuram Rajan · 24 May 2010 · 358pp · 106,729 words
Kicking Awaythe Ladder
by Ha-Joon Chang · 4 Sep 2000 · 192pp
The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival
by Charles Goodhart and Manoj Pradhan · 8 Aug 2020 · 438pp · 84,256 words
Crisis and Dollarization in Ecuador: Stability, Growth, and Social Equity
by Paul Ely Beckerman and Andrés Solimano · 30 Apr 2002
The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking and the Future of the Global Economy
by Mervyn King · 3 Mar 2016 · 464pp · 139,088 words
A Pelican Introduction: Basic Income
by Guy Standing · 3 May 2017 · 307pp · 82,680 words
The Corruption of Capitalism: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay
by Guy Standing · 13 Jul 2016 · 443pp · 98,113 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
Rewriting the Rules of the European Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity
by Joseph E. Stiglitz · 28 Jan 2020 · 408pp · 108,985 words
Debunking Economics - Revised, Expanded and Integrated Edition: The Naked Emperor Dethroned?
by Steve Keen · 21 Sep 2011 · 823pp · 220,581 words
Hawai'I Becalmed: Economic Lessons of the 1990s
by Christopher Grandy · 30 Sep 2002 · 145pp · 43,599 words
The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent
by Vivek Wadhwa · 1 Oct 2012 · 103pp · 24,033 words
Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science
by Dani Rodrik · 12 Oct 2015 · 226pp · 59,080 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 Age of Stagnation: Why Perpetual Growth Is Unattainable and the Global Economy Is in Peril
by Satyajit Das · 9 Feb 2016 · 327pp · 90,542 words
The Curse of Cash
by Kenneth S Rogoff · 29 Aug 2016 · 361pp · 97,787 words
Hubris: Why Economists Failed to Predict the Crisis and How to Avoid the Next One
by Meghnad Desai · 15 Feb 2015 · 270pp · 73,485 words
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics
by William R. Easterly · 1 Aug 2002 · 355pp · 63 words
The Shifts and the Shocks: What We've Learned--And Have Still to Learn--From the Financial Crisis
by Martin Wolf · 24 Nov 2015 · 524pp · 143,993 words
The Butterfly Defect: How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks, and What to Do About It
by Ian Goldin and Mike Mariathasan · 15 Mar 2014 · 414pp · 101,285 words
Money and Government: The Past and Future of Economics
by Robert Skidelsky · 13 Nov 2018
The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe
by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Alex Hyde-White · 24 Oct 2016 · 515pp · 142,354 words
Age of the City: Why Our Future Will Be Won or Lost Together
by Ian Goldin and Tom Lee-Devlin · 21 Jun 2023 · 248pp · 73,689 words
The Globalization of Inequality
by François Bourguignon · 1 Aug 2012 · 221pp · 55,901 words
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
What's Next?: Unconventional Wisdom on the Future of the World Economy
by David Hale and Lyric Hughes Hale · 23 May 2011 · 397pp · 112,034 words
Prosperity Without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow
by Tim Jackson · 8 Dec 2016 · 573pp · 115,489 words
The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today
by Linda Yueh · 15 Mar 2018 · 374pp · 113,126 words
Red Flags: Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy
by George Magnus · 10 Sep 2018 · 371pp · 98,534 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
Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
by Grace Blakeley · 11 Mar 2024 · 371pp · 137,268 words
Irrational Exuberance: With a New Preface by the Author
by Robert J. Shiller · 15 Feb 2000 · 319pp · 106,772 words
Home: Why Public Housing Is the Answer
by Eoin Ó Broin · 5 May 2019 · 301pp · 77,626 words
The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again
by Robert D. Putnam · 12 Oct 2020 · 678pp · 160,676 words
Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain's Battle With Coronavirus
by Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott · 18 Mar 2021 · 432pp · 143,491 words
Termites of the State: Why Complexity Leads to Inequality
by Vito Tanzi · 28 Dec 2017
Take the Money and Run: Sovereign Wealth Funds and the Demise of American Prosperity
by Eric C. Anderson · 15 Jan 2009 · 264pp · 115,489 words
Against Intellectual Monopoly
by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine · 6 Jul 2008 · 607pp · 133,452 words
Britannia Unchained: Global Lessons for Growth and Prosperity
by Kwasi Kwarteng, Priti Patel, Dominic Raab, Chris Skidmore and Elizabeth Truss · 12 Sep 2012
The Invisible Hands: Top Hedge Fund Traders on Bubbles, Crashes, and Real Money
by Steven Drobny · 18 Mar 2010 · 537pp · 144,318 words
European Spring: Why Our Economies and Politics Are in a Mess - and How to Put Them Right
by Philippe Legrain · 22 Apr 2014 · 497pp · 150,205 words
A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order
by Richard Haass · 10 Jan 2017 · 286pp · 82,970 words
When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America's Obsession With Economic Efficiency
by Roger L. Martin · 28 Sep 2020 · 600pp · 72,502 words
The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy
by Stephanie Kelton · 8 Jun 2020 · 338pp · 104,684 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 Future Is Asian
by Parag Khanna · 5 Feb 2019 · 496pp · 131,938 words
Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit, and Authoritarian Populism
by Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart · 31 Dec 2018
The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations?
by Ian Bremmer · 12 May 2010 · 247pp · 68,918 words
Aftershocks: Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order
by Colin Kahl and Thomas Wright · 23 Aug 2021 · 652pp · 172,428 words
The end of history and the last man
by Francis Fukuyama · 28 Feb 2006 · 446pp · 578 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
Unhappy Union: How the Euro Crisis - and Europe - Can Be Fixed
by John Peet, Anton La Guardia and The Economist · 15 Feb 2014 · 267pp · 74,296 words
Red-Blooded Risk: The Secret History of Wall Street
by Aaron Brown and Eric Kim · 10 Oct 2011 · 483pp · 141,836 words
Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
by Wolfgang Streeck · 1 Jan 2013 · 353pp · 81,436 words
Europe old and new: transnationalism, belonging, xenophobia
by Ray Taras · 15 Dec 2009 · 267pp · 106,340 words
Nation-Building: Beyond Afghanistan and Iraq
by Francis Fukuyama · 22 Dec 2005
Falling Behind: Explaining the Development Gap Between Latin America and the United States
by Francis Fukuyama · 1 Jan 2006
10% Less Democracy: Why You Should Trust Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less
by Garett Jones · 4 Feb 2020 · 303pp · 75,192 words
The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
by Tom Burgis · 24 Mar 2015 · 413pp · 119,379 words
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
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo · 12 Nov 2019 · 470pp · 148,730 words
Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital
by Kimberly Clausing · 4 Mar 2019 · 555pp · 80,635 words
Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
by J. Bradford Delong · 6 Apr 2020 · 593pp · 183,240 words
The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People - and the Fight for Our Future
by Alec Ross · 13 Sep 2021 · 363pp · 109,077 words
The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
by Benn Steil · 14 May 2013 · 710pp · 164,527 words
The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance
by Eswar S. Prasad · 27 Sep 2021 · 661pp · 185,701 words
Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking
by Michael Bhaskar · 2 Nov 2021
The Capitalist Manifesto
by Johan Norberg · 14 Jun 2023 · 295pp · 87,204 words
The Post-American World: Release 2.0
by Fareed Zakaria · 1 Jan 2008 · 344pp · 93,858 words
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
by Daniel Yergin · 14 Sep 2020
Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (Fully Revised and Updated)
by Charles Wheelan · 18 Apr 2010 · 386pp · 122,595 words
The Euro and the Battle of Ideas
by Markus K. Brunnermeier, Harold James and Jean-Pierre Landau · 3 Aug 2016 · 586pp · 160,321 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
Capitalism Without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy
by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake · 7 Nov 2017 · 346pp · 89,180 words
Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World Economy
by Dani Rodrik · 8 Oct 2017 · 322pp · 87,181 words
Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Gobal Crisis
by James Rickards · 10 Nov 2011 · 381pp · 101,559 words
Birth of the Euro
by Otmar Issing · 20 Oct 2008 · 276pp · 82,603 words
The Rise of the Network Society
by Manuel Castells · 31 Aug 1996 · 843pp · 223,858 words
Democracy and Prosperity: Reinventing Capitalism Through a Turbulent Century
by Torben Iversen and David Soskice · 5 Feb 2019 · 550pp · 124,073 words
The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State
by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge · 14 May 2014 · 372pp · 92,477 words
Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
by Deirdre N. McCloskey · 15 Nov 2011 · 1,205pp · 308,891 words
How Asia Works
by Joe Studwell · 1 Jul 2013 · 868pp · 147,152 words
The Economics of Belonging: A Radical Plan to Win Back the Left Behind and Achieve Prosperity for All
by Martin Sandbu · 15 Jun 2020 · 322pp · 84,580 words
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
by Daron Acemoğlu and James A. Robinson · 28 Sep 2001
Brexit, No Exit: Why in the End Britain Won't Leave Europe
by Denis MacShane · 14 Jul 2017 · 308pp · 99,298 words
The Tyranny of Nostalgia: Half a Century of British Economic Decline
by Russell Jones · 15 Jan 2023 · 463pp · 140,499 words
The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power
by Jacob Helberg · 11 Oct 2021 · 521pp · 118,183 words
World Cities and Nation States
by Greg Clark and Tim Moonen · 19 Dec 2016
Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies
by Judith Stein · 30 Apr 2010 · 497pp · 143,175 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
The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be
by Moises Naim · 5 Mar 2013 · 474pp · 120,801 words
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
by Steven Pinker · 13 Feb 2018 · 1,034pp · 241,773 words
The Default Line: The Inside Story of People, Banks and Entire Nations on the Edge
by Faisal Islam · 28 Aug 2013 · 475pp · 155,554 words
How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance
by Parag Khanna · 11 Jan 2011 · 251pp · 76,868 words
Making Globalization Work
by Joseph E. Stiglitz · 16 Sep 2006
Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles
by Ruchir Sharma · 8 Apr 2012 · 411pp · 114,717 words
Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance
by Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna · 23 May 2016 · 437pp · 113,173 words
The Fair Trade Scandal: Marketing Poverty to Benefit the Rich
by Ndongo Sylla · 21 Jan 2014 · 193pp · 63,618 words
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
by Adam Tooze · 31 Jul 2018 · 1,066pp · 273,703 words
China's Future
by David Shambaugh · 11 Mar 2016 · 261pp · 57,595 words
Zero-Sum Future: American Power in an Age of Anxiety
by Gideon Rachman · 1 Feb 2011 · 391pp · 102,301 words
Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
by Johan Norberg · 31 Aug 2016 · 262pp · 66,800 words
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
by Francis Fukuyama · 29 Sep 2014 · 828pp · 232,188 words
Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century
by Christian Caryl · 30 Oct 2012 · 780pp · 168,782 words
The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War
by Benn Steil · 13 Feb 2018 · 913pp · 219,078 words
The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age
by James Crabtree · 2 Jul 2018 · 442pp · 130,526 words
The Industries of the Future
by Alec Ross · 2 Feb 2016 · 364pp · 99,897 words
The Asian Financial Crisis 1995–98: Birth of the Age of Debt
by Russell Napier · 19 Jul 2021 · 511pp · 151,359 words
Them And Us: Politics, Greed And Inequality - Why We Need A Fair Society
by Will Hutton · 30 Sep 2010 · 543pp · 147,357 words
The Levelling: What’s Next After Globalization
by Michael O’sullivan · 28 May 2019 · 756pp · 120,818 words
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
The Future of War
by Lawrence Freedman · 9 Oct 2017 · 592pp · 161,798 words
Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet
by Klaus Schwab · 7 Jan 2021 · 460pp · 107,454 words
The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World
by Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro · 11 Sep 2017 · 850pp · 224,533 words
The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything
by Matthew Ball · 18 Jul 2022 · 412pp · 116,685 words
Post Wall: Rebuilding the World After 1989
by Kristina Spohr · 23 Sep 2019 · 1,123pp · 328,357 words
The Big Fix: How Companies Capture Markets and Harm Canadians
by Denise Hearn and Vass Bednar · 14 Oct 2024 · 175pp · 46,192 words
Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization
by Harold James · 15 Jan 2023 · 469pp · 137,880 words
Why the Allies Won
by Richard Overy · 29 Feb 2012 · 624pp · 191,758 words
Urban Transport Without the Hot Air, Volume 1
by Steve Melia · 351pp · 91,133 words
The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley
by Leslie Berlin · 9 Jun 2005
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
by David S. Landes · 14 Sep 1999 · 1,060pp · 265,296 words
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
by Liaquat Ahamed · 22 Jan 2009 · 708pp · 196,859 words
After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire Since 1405
by John Darwin · 5 Feb 2008 · 650pp · 203,191 words
Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners
by Larry Harris · 2 Jan 2003 · 1,164pp · 309,327 words
Money for Nothing
by Thomas Levenson · 18 Aug 2020 · 495pp · 136,714 words
Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order
by Parag Khanna · 4 Mar 2008 · 537pp · 158,544 words
The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World (Hardback) - Common
by Alan Greenspan · 14 Jun 2007
In Defense of Global Capitalism
by Johan Norberg · 1 Jan 2001 · 233pp · 75,712 words
The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System
by James Rickards · 7 Apr 2014 · 466pp · 127,728 words
Imagining India
by Nandan Nilekani · 25 Nov 2008 · 777pp · 186,993 words
The Coffee Book: Anatomy of an Industry From Crop to the Last Drop
by Gregory Dicum and Nina Luttinger · 1 Jan 1999 · 230pp · 62,294 words
Vanishing Frontiers: The Forces Driving Mexico and the United States Together
by Andrew Selee · 4 Jun 2018 · 359pp · 97,415 words
Britain's Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation
by Brendan Simms · 27 Apr 2016 · 380pp · 116,919 words
The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970
by John Darwin · 23 Sep 2009
Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain
by John Darwin · 12 Feb 2013
This Will Make You Smarter: 150 New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
by John Brockman · 14 Feb 2012 · 416pp · 106,582 words
Spike: The Virus vs The People - The Inside Story
by Jeremy Farrar and Anjana Ahuja · 15 Jan 2021 · 245pp · 71,886 words
The Powerful and the Damned: Private Diaries in Turbulent Times
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The Transformation Of Ireland 1900-2000
by Diarmaid Ferriter · 15 Jul 2009
Data and the City
by Rob Kitchin,Tracey P. Lauriault,Gavin McArdle · 2 Aug 2017
MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World
by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams · 28 Sep 2010 · 552pp · 168,518 words
The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy
by Dani Rodrik · 23 Dec 2010 · 356pp · 103,944 words
Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
by Mark Pendergrast · 2 Jan 2000 · 564pp · 153,720 words
Profiting Without Producing: How Finance Exploits Us All
by Costas Lapavitsas · 14 Aug 2013 · 554pp · 158,687 words
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by Steven Pinker · 24 Sep 2012 · 1,351pp · 385,579 words
Open Standards and the Digital Age: History, Ideology, and Networks (Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise)
by Andrew L. Russell · 27 Apr 2014 · 675pp · 141,667 words
The Basque History of the World
by Mark Kurlansky · 4 Jul 2010
Open: The Story of Human Progress
by Johan Norberg · 14 Sep 2020 · 505pp · 138,917 words
A Pipeline Runs Through It: The Story of Oil From Ancient Times to the First World War
by Keith Fisher · 3 Aug 2022
A Modern History of Hong Kong: 1841-1997
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The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
by Tim Wu · 2 Nov 2010 · 418pp · 128,965 words
The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?
by David Brin · 1 Jan 1998 · 205pp · 18,208 words
After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made
by Ben Rhodes · 1 Jun 2021 · 342pp · 114,118 words
Pandemic, Inc.: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick
by J. David McSwane · 11 Apr 2022 · 368pp · 102,379 words
Empty Vessel: The Story of the Global Economy in One Barge
by Ian Kumekawa · 6 May 2025 · 422pp · 112,638 words
The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel
by Nicholas Ostler · 23 Nov 2010 · 484pp · 120,507 words
A History of Future Cities
by Daniel Brook · 18 Feb 2013 · 489pp · 132,734 words
Frommer's Egypt
by Matthew Carrington · 8 Sep 2008
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by Constantine Buhayer · 24 Feb 2022 · 125pp · 35,820 words
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
by Michael B. Oren · 2 Jun 2003 · 687pp · 209,474 words
Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War
by Robert Fisk · 1 Jan 1990 · 1,208pp · 364,966 words
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Secrets of the Sprakkar
by Eliza Reid · 15 Jul 2021