Economic history recommended reading
Discover the best economic history books with our curated reading list. Explore Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, and Max Weber’s Economy and Society for essential insights into global economics and civilization.
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Economy and Society
by Max Weber
Max Weber's Economy and Society is the greatest sociological treatise written in this century. Published posthumously in Germany in the early 1920s, it has become a constitutive part of the modern sociological imagination.
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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
by Paul Kennedy
About national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" in W. Europe.
