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The Changing World Economy

Economics

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson
The End of Finance
Massimo Amato & Luca Fantacci
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The Econocracy: The Perils of Leaving Economics to the Experts
Joe Earle et al.
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Progress and Poverty
Henry George
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
John Maynard Keynes
The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking and the Future of the Global Economy
Mervyn King
How to Speak Money: What the Money People Say – and What It Really Means
John Lanchester
Money and Sustainability: The Missing Link
Bernard Lietaer et al.
Rethinking Money: How New Currencies Turn Scarcity into Prosperity
Bernard Lietaer & Jacqui Dunne
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Money: The Unauthorized Biography–From Coinage to Cryptocurrencies
Felix Martin
The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy
Mariana Mazzucato
The Limits to growth: A report for the Club of Rome’s Project on the Predicament of Mankind
Donella H. Meadows et al.
The Production of Money: How to Break the Power of Bankers
Ann Pettifor
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty
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The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
Karl Polanyi
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Doughnut Economics: 7 Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist
Kate Raworth
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The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Adam Smith
The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future
Joseph E. Stiglitz
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Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress
Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein
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Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
Richard H. Thaler
Deceit and Self-Deception: Fooling Yourself the Better to Fool Others
Robert Trivers
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
Yanis Varoufakis

Aid and Global Poverty

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Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo
What Works in Development?: Thinking Big and Thinking Small
Jessica Cohen & William Easterly
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
Paul Collier
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
Angus Deaton
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The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
William Easterly
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The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
William Easterly
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The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence
Gary A. Haugen & Victor Boutros
The Business of Changing the World
Raj Kumar
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The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits
C.K. Prahalad
Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
Muhammad Yunus