Best Economic History Books

A selection of recommended economic history books worth reading.

• 1929 Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a NationAndrew Ross Sorkin
• Chip WarChris Miller
• Technofeudalism What Killed CapitalismYanis Varoufakis
• Capitalism and FreedomMilton Friedman, Binyamin Appelbaum
• Economics in One Lesson The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic EconomicsHenry Hazlitt
• AnarchyWilliam Dalrymple
• Debt the First 5000 YearsDavid Graeber
• MisbehavingRichard H. Thaler
• Bromise LandDavid Skeel
• Capitalism: A Global HistorySven Beckert
• Blood in the Machine The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big TechBrian Merchant
• The Price of Time The Real Story of InterestEdward Chancellor
• Cattle KingdomChristopher Knowlton
• The Box How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World EconomyMarc Levinson
• AnarchyWilliam Dalrymple
• 1929 Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History and How It Shattered a Nat 2Andrew Ross Sorkin
• Hist of MoneyDavid McWilliams
• When Money DiesAdam Fergusson
• Generation F*ckedFreddie Smith
• A Short History of Financial EuphoriaJohn Kenneth Galbraith
• They Were Her Property White Women as Slave Owners in the American SouthStephanie E. Jones-Rogers
• 1493 Uncovering the New World Columbus CreatedCharles C. Mann
• Price of DemocracyVanessa S. Williamson
• Empire of Cotton A Global HistorySven Beckert
• The Age of Extraction How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future ProsperityTim Wu
• Age of CapitalEric Hobsbawm