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Business cycle | Capitalism | Economics | Money

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Business cycle

Diebold, Francis X., and Glenn D. Rudebusch. Business Cycles: Duration, Dynamics, and Forecasting. Princeton University Press, 1999. Crucial reading for policy makers, business executives, and others who need to understand the fluctuations in the economy.

Hartley, James E.; Kevin D. Hoover; and Kevin D. Sayler. Real Business Cycles: A Reader. Routledge, 1998. A collection of articles that define and develop the real business cycle school.

Kindleberger, Charles P. Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises. Wiley, 2000. Updated version of a classic study on economic upheaval.

Solomou, Solomos. Economic Cycles: Long Cycles and Business Cycles since 1870. St. Martin's, 1998. A historical analysis of business cycles over the three epochs: 1870-1913, 1919-1938, and the post-World War II period.

Tvede, Lars. Business Cycles: From John Law to Chaos Theory. Harwood Academic, 1996. Informative and entertaining look at the history of economic trends.

Capitalism

Braudel, Fernand. Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century. Harper & Row, Reprint, 2 vols. University of California Press, 1982-1984. 1992. A pioneering study of early capitalism.

De Soto, Hernando. The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else. Basic, 2000. A persuasive book that will change our perceptions about where capital comes from.

Friedman, Milton. Capitalism and Freedom. University of Chicago Press, 1972. An argument for a free-market society by a leading conservative economist.

Gilpin, Robert, and Jean M. The Challenge of Global Capitalism. Princeton University Press, 2000. An authority on public policy discusses whether global capitalism here to stay.

Greider, William. One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism. Simon & Schuster, 1998. Argues that the global economy is reviving forms of human exploitation that characterized the Industrial Revolution.

Smith, Adam. Wealth of Nations. Reprint, Prometheus, 1991. The first major work on political economy, written in 1776, that examined the benefits of economic freedom.

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Economics

Bannock, Graham, and others, eds. The Penguin Dictionary of Economics. 6th ed. Viking Penguin, 1999. Extensively cross-referenced dictionary of economic terms, theory, and history.

Eatwell, John, and others, eds. The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics. Groves Dictionaries, 1998. Authoritative, four-volume encyclopedia of economics.

Friedman, Milton. Monetarist Economics. Blackwell, 1991. The influential Chicago school of economics.

Galbraith, John Kenneth. A Journey through Economic Time: A Firsthand View. Houghton Mifflin, 1995. Surveys the major currents in economic policy since World War I.

Gerber, James. International Economics. 2nd ed. Addison Wesley Longman, 2001. A nontechnical approach geared towards readers interested in history, political science, and public administration.

Heilbroner, Robert L. The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers. Simon & Schuster, 1999. History of economic thought that examines the theories of such major figures as Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and Karl Marx.

Heilbroner, Robert, and Lester Thurow. Economics Explained. Simon & Schuster, 1998. Excellent primer on modern economics.

Pomeranz, Kenneth. The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. Princeton University Press, 2000. Award-winning book that draws interesting parallels to explain the economic dominance of Asia and the West.

Samuelson, Paul A, and William D. Nordhaus. Economics: An Introductory Analysis. McGraw-Hill, 1998. One of the most widely read introductions to the fundamentals of economics.

Money

Galbraith, John Kenneth. Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went. Houghton Mifflin, 1995. Well-written history, from Keynesian viewpoint.

Maestro, Betsy C. The Story of Money. Morrow, 1995. A history of money from prehistoric times to the present, for younger readers.

Parker, Nancy Winslow. Money, Money, Money: The Meaning of the Art and Symbols on United States Paper Currency. HarperCollins Juvenile, 1995. Explains the images on paper money, how money is made, and how counterfeit money is identified. For younger readers.

Weatherford, J. McIver. The History of Money: From Sandstone to Cyberspace. Reprint, Three Rivers, 1998. A history of money and how it has affected people and culture across time.

Williams, Jonathan, and others, eds. Money: A History. St. Martin's Press, Inc, 1998. A history of monetary systems from ancient times to the present.

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