Cotton Economy Books | Summaries & Audio

The Half Has Never Been Told

by Edward E. Baptist • 2013

Torture, not the cotton gin, drove America's economic miracle. The numbers the textbooks leave out.

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🏛️ New History Of Capitalism 💰 Racial Capitalism 🌾 Antebellum South 📜 Financialization Of Slavery ⛓️ Forced Labor Systems

The Half Has Never Been Told 91%

Torture, not the cotton gin, drove America's economic miracle. The numbers the textbooks leave out.

by Edward E. Baptist 2013

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6k+ ratings

🏛️ New History Of Capitalism 💰 Racial Capitalism 🌾 Antebellum South 📜 Financialization Of Slavery ⛓️ Forced Labor Systems

The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy

by Pietra Rivoli • 2005

A T-shirt's journey exposes the global economy's real engine: politics, migration, and subsidies.

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🌐 Trade Politics 📦 Commodity Studies 🧵 Textile Industry 🚢 Supply Chain Narratives 🌿 Cotton Economics

The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy Summary

The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy 90%

A T-shirt's journey exposes the global economy's real engine: politics, migration, and subsidies.

by Pietra Rivoli 2005

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🌐 Trade Politics 📦 Commodity Studies 🧵 Textile Industry 🚢 Supply Chain Narratives 🌿 Cotton Economics

The Market Revolution in America

by John Lauritz Larson • 2009

From the Erie Canal to the cotton fields, free markets built America and then tore it apart.

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🏦 American Economic History 📜 Antebellum America 🗳️ Capitalism And Democracy ⚖️ Political Economy 🔨 Labor History

The Market Revolution in America Summary

The Market Revolution in America 90%

From the Erie Canal to the cotton fields, free markets built America and then tore it apart.

by John Lauritz Larson 2009

3.60

88 ratings

🏦 American Economic History 📜 Antebellum America 🗳️ Capitalism And Democracy ⚖️ Political Economy 🔨 Labor History

Clothing Poverty

by Andrew Brooks • 2015

The fashion industry's hidden second-hand trade fuels the inequality cheap clothes thrive on.

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👔 Fashion Industry ⛓️ Commodity Chains 🌾 Cotton Industry 👕 Fast Fashion ♻️ Second-Hand Clothing

Clothing Poverty 90%

The fashion industry's hidden second-hand trade fuels the inequality cheap clothes thrive on.

by Andrew Brooks 2015

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173 ratings

👔 Fashion Industry ⛓️ Commodity Chains 🌾 Cotton Industry 👕 Fast Fashion ♻️ Second-Hand Clothing

American Taxation, American Slavery

by Robin L. Einhorn • 2006

The anti-government tradition Americans celebrate was built to shield slavery, not liberty.

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📈 Economic History 💰 Tax History ⛓ Slave Power ⚔️ Sectional Conflict ⚖️ Constitutional Law

American Taxation, American Slavery Summary

American Taxation, American Slavery 89%

The anti-government tradition Americans celebrate was built to shield slavery, not liberty.

by Robin L. Einhorn 2006

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46 ratings

📈 Economic History 💰 Tax History ⛓ Slave Power ⚔️ Sectional Conflict ⚖️ Constitutional Law

The Ruling Race

by James Oakes • 1982

They weren't aristocrats. Restless hunger for land and slaves pushed the South to secession.

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🏛️ Antebellum South ⛓️ American Slavery 👔 Planter Class 📊 Economic History 🚂 Westward Expansion

The Ruling Race 89%

They weren't aristocrats. Restless hunger for land and slaves pushed the South to secession.

by James Oakes 1982

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104 ratings

🏛️ Antebellum South ⛓️ American Slavery 👔 Planter Class 📊 Economic History 🚂 Westward Expansion

Slave Country

by Adam Rothman • 2005

The founders thought slavery would die. Their policies built a slave empire from Georgia to Texas.

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🏛️ Early American Republic 🌾 Antebellum South ⛓️ American Slavery 💰 Slavery And Capitalism 🗺️ Territorial Expansion

Slave Country 89%

The founders thought slavery would die. Their policies built a slave empire from Georgia to Texas.

by Adam Rothman 2005

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169 ratings

🏛️ Early American Republic 🌾 Antebellum South ⛓️ American Slavery 💰 Slavery And Capitalism 🗺️ Territorial Expansion

Empire of Cotton

by Sven Beckert • 2014

Before coal, cotton powered the world. The plantation, not the factory, built modern capitalism.

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🏛️ Economic History 🧵 Commodity Histories ⛓️ Slavery And Capitalism 🌍 Imperialism And Trade 🔗 Supply Chains

Empire of Cotton 89%

Before coal, cotton powered the world. The plantation, not the factory, built modern capitalism.

by Sven Beckert 2014

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4k+ ratings

🏛️ Economic History 🧵 Commodity Histories ⛓️ Slavery And Capitalism 🌍 Imperialism And Trade 🔗 Supply Chains

Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution

by Maxine Berg • 2023

Sugar, copper, cotton, and credit: how enslaved labor built the Industrial Revolution.

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🏛️ Economic History ⛓️ Atlantic Slavery 🏭 Industrial Revolution 🍬 Colonial Commodities 🟤 Racial Capitalism

Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution Summary

Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution 89%

Sugar, copper, cotton, and credit: how enslaved labor built the Industrial Revolution.

by Maxine Berg 2023

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26 ratings

🏛️ Economic History ⛓️ Atlantic Slavery 🏭 Industrial Revolution 🍬 Colonial Commodities 🟤 Racial Capitalism

ROOTS OF SOUTHERN POPULISM

by Steven Hahn • 1985

Before Populism, Georgia's yeomen lost their land and independence to merchants, cotton, and debt.

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🌾 Agrarian History 🔨 Reconstruction Era 🌱 Sharecropping 👥 Class Formation 🐄 Common Rights

ROOTS OF SOUTHERN POPULISM 89%

Before Populism, Georgia's yeomen lost their land and independence to merchants, cotton, and debt.

by Steven Hahn 1985

3.78

74 ratings

🌾 Agrarian History 🔨 Reconstruction Era 🌱 Sharecropping 👥 Class Formation 🐄 Common Rights

Nature's Metropolis

by William Cronon • 1991

The grain and hogs flowing through Chicago didn't just feed the nation, they rewired the continent.

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🌿 Environmental History 🗺️ Economic Geography 🏙️ Urban Systems 📦 Commodity History 🏭 Industrial Food

Nature's Metropolis 89%

The grain and hogs flowing through Chicago didn't just feed the nation, they rewired the continent.

by William Cronon 1991

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4k+ ratings

🌿 Environmental History 🗺️ Economic Geography 🏙️ Urban Systems 📦 Commodity History 🏭 Industrial Food

Spying on the South

by Tony Horwitz • 2019

America's red-blue fault line was forged in the 1850s South. Retracing Olmsted's journey proves it.

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🚙 American Travelogues ⛓️ Antebellum South ⚡ Political Polarization 🏞️ Democratic Public Space ⚖️ Systemic Inequality

Spying on the South 88%

America's red-blue fault line was forged in the 1850s South. Retracing Olmsted's journey proves it.

by Tony Horwitz 2019

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5k+ ratings

🚙 American Travelogues ⛓️ Antebellum South ⚡ Political Polarization 🏞️ Democratic Public Space ⚖️ Systemic Inequality

An Empire of Wealth

by John Steele Gordon • 2004

How a scrappy republic became the engine of global capitalism, from canals to microchips.

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🏛️ Economic History 🏭 American Capitalism 💰 Financial History ⚙️ Industrial Revolution 🚂 Infrastructure History

An Empire of Wealth 88%

How a scrappy republic became the engine of global capitalism, from canals to microchips.

by John Steele Gordon 2004

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1k+ ratings

🏛️ Economic History 🏭 American Capitalism 💰 Financial History ⚙️ Industrial Revolution 🚂 Infrastructure History

Sweetness and Power

by Sidney W. Mintz • 1985

Royal luxury to factory fuel: how sugar, slavery, and empire built the modern Western diet.

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📦 Commodity Histories ⛓️ Slavery And Capitalism 🍽️ Food Anthropology 🏝️ Colonial Economies 🍞 Dietary Transformation

Sweetness and Power 88%

Royal luxury to factory fuel: how sugar, slavery, and empire built the modern Western diet.

by Sidney W. Mintz 1985

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📦 Commodity Histories ⛓️ Slavery And Capitalism 🍽️ Food Anthropology 🏝️ Colonial Economies 🍞 Dietary Transformation

A Nation of Deadbeats

by Scott Reynolds Nelson • 2012

American booms and busts trace to borrowed optimism meeting foreign distrust.

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📜 American Economic History 📉 Financial Panics 🫧 Speculative Bubbles 🌍 Global Capital Flows 🏦 Banking History

A Nation of Deadbeats 88%

American booms and busts trace to borrowed optimism meeting foreign distrust.

by Scott Reynolds Nelson 2012

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136 ratings

📜 American Economic History 📉 Financial Panics 🫧 Speculative Bubbles 🌍 Global Capital Flows 🏦 Banking History

Made in the USA

by Vaclav Smil • 2013

How the country that made a third of the planet's goods stopped making almost everything.

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🏛️ Economic History 🏭 American Industry ⚡ Energy Economics 📉 Deindustrialization 🔗 Supply Chains

Made in the USA 88%

How the country that made a third of the planet's goods stopped making almost everything.

by Vaclav Smil 2013

3.76

510 ratings

🏛️ Economic History 🏭 American Industry ⚡ Energy Economics 📉 Deindustrialization 🔗 Supply Chains

The Death of Reconstruction

by Heather Cox Richardson • 2001

The North's faith in free labor built Reconstruction, then provided the arguments to tear it down.

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🏛️ Reconstruction Era ⚒️ Labor History 💰 Political Economy 🗳️ Voting Rights 🚫 Anti-Statism

The Death of Reconstruction 88%

The North's faith in free labor built Reconstruction, then provided the arguments to tear it down.

by Heather Cox Richardson 2001

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107 ratings

🏛️ Reconstruction Era ⚒️ Labor History 💰 Political Economy 🗳️ Voting Rights 🚫 Anti-Statism

Industry and Empire

by Eric J. Hobsbawm • 1968

Britain's industrial head start created an empire-dependent economy destined to fall behind.

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📈 Economic History 🏭 Industrial Revolution 🇬🇧 British History 🏛️ Marxist Historiography 👥 History From Below

Industry and Empire 88%

Britain's industrial head start created an empire-dependent economy destined to fall behind.

by Eric J. Hobsbawm 1968

3.92

574 ratings

📈 Economic History 🏭 Industrial Revolution 🇬🇧 British History 🏛️ Marxist Historiography 👥 History From Below

Kicking Away the Ladder

by Ha-Joon Chang • 2002

Tariffs, subsidies, and industrial espionage built the West. Now it preaches free trade to the rest.

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🏛️ Economic History 🌐 Development Economics 💰 Political Economy 🏭 Industrial Policy 🚢 Trade Protectionism

Kicking Away the Ladder 88%

Tariffs, subsidies, and industrial espionage built the West. Now it preaches free trade to the rest.

by Ha-Joon Chang 2002

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1k+ ratings

🏛️ Economic History 🌐 Development Economics 💰 Political Economy 🏭 Industrial Policy 🚢 Trade Protectionism

Railroaded

by Richard White • 2011

Corrupt, overbuilt, taxpayer-funded: the transcontinentals failed their way into modern America.

3.63

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🚂 Railroad History 💰 Gilded Age 🏜️ American West 🕵️ Corporate Corruption 🏛️ Political Economy

Railroaded 88%

Corrupt, overbuilt, taxpayer-funded: the transcontinentals failed their way into modern America.

by Richard White 2011

3.63

912 ratings

🚂 Railroad History 💰 Gilded Age 🏜️ American West 🕵️ Corporate Corruption 🏛️ Political Economy

The Lies of the Land

by Steven Conn • 2023

Farmers and crisis don't define rural America. Military bases, chains, and suburbia do.

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🌾 Rural America 📜 Agrarian Myths ⏳ Nostalgia Politics 🏘️ Suburban Expansion 🏚️ Deindustrialization

The Lies of the Land 88%

Farmers and crisis don't define rural America. Military bases, chains, and suburbia do.

by Steven Conn 2023

3.98

148 ratings

🌾 Rural America 📜 Agrarian Myths ⏳ Nostalgia Politics 🏘️ Suburban Expansion 🏚️ Deindustrialization

A Splendid Exchange

by William J. Bernstein • 2008

Commerce, not conquest, built the modern world: the history of trade from obsidian to oil.

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📈 Economic History 🌍 Global Trade 🕰️ Big History ⚓ Maritime History 🌶️ Commodity History

A Splendid Exchange 88%

Commerce, not conquest, built the modern world: the history of trade from obsidian to oil.

by William J. Bernstein 2008

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3k+ ratings

📈 Economic History 🌍 Global Trade 🕰️ Big History ⚓ Maritime History 🌶️ Commodity History

The Rise and Fall of American Growth

by Robert J. Gordon • 2016

Indoor plumbing, electricity, and the car transformed daily life in ways the internet never will.

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🏛️ Economic History 🇺🇸 American Economy ⚙️ Technological Change 🏠 Standard Of Living 🏭 Industrial Revolutions

The Rise and Fall of American Growth Summary

The Rise and Fall of American Growth 88%

Indoor plumbing, electricity, and the car transformed daily life in ways the internet never will.

by Robert J. Gordon 2016

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2k+ ratings

🏛️ Economic History 🇺🇸 American Economy ⚙️ Technological Change 🏠 Standard Of Living 🏭 Industrial Revolutions

The Market Revolution

by Charles Grier Sellers • 1992

How capitalism conquered America: a 30-year clash that remade its courts, churches, and bedrooms.

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🏛️ Jacksonian Democracy 🕯️ Antebellum America ⚒️ Class Politics 🏭 Capitalist Development ⛪ Religious Revivalism

The Market Revolution 88%

How capitalism conquered America: a 30-year clash that remade its courts, churches, and bedrooms.

by Charles Grier Sellers 1992

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293 ratings

🏛️ Jacksonian Democracy 🕯️ Antebellum America ⚒️ Class Politics 🏭 Capitalist Development ⛪ Religious Revivalism

Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

by Benjamin M. Friedman • 2021

America still fights eighteenth-century religious battles. It just calls them economics now.

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🧠 Intellectual History 💡 Economic Thought ⛪ American Protestantism 💰 Theology And Economics ✝️ Reformed Theology

Religion and the Rise of Capitalism Summary

Religion and the Rise of Capitalism 88%

America still fights eighteenth-century religious battles. It just calls them economics now.

by Benjamin M. Friedman 2021

3.89

357 ratings

🧠 Intellectual History 💡 Economic Thought ⛪ American Protestantism 💰 Theology And Economics ✝️ Reformed Theology

The Republic for Which It Stands

by Richard White • 2017

America rebuilt itself after 1865 into something no one voted for. A history of broken promises.

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🏛️ Reconstruction Era 💰 Gilded Age 🔨 Labor History 🌳 Environmental History ⚖️ Jim Crow Origins

The Republic for Which It Stands Summary

The Republic for Which It Stands 88%

America rebuilt itself after 1865 into something no one voted for. A history of broken promises.

by Richard White 2017

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2k+ ratings

🏛️ Reconstruction Era 💰 Gilded Age 🔨 Labor History 🌳 Environmental History ⚖️ Jim Crow Origins

This Vast Southern Empire

by Matthew Karp • 2016

Why the slaveholding South pushed for a powerful state: to protect and project slavery worldwide.

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🏛️ Antebellum Politics 🌍 Geopolitics Of Slavery 💰 Commodity Power ⚔️ Military Expansion 🧬 Scientific Racism

This Vast Southern Empire 88%

Why the slaveholding South pushed for a powerful state: to protect and project slavery worldwide.

by Matthew Karp 2016

4.28

534 ratings

🏛️ Antebellum Politics 🌍 Geopolitics Of Slavery 💰 Commodity Power ⚔️ Military Expansion 🧬 Scientific Racism

Workers on Arrival

by Joe William Trotter Jr. • 2019

America was built on Black labor, then spent four centuries finding new ways to steal it.

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⛏️ Black Labor History 💰 Racial Capitalism ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 🏭 Deindustrialization 🧳 Great Migration

Workers on Arrival 88%

America was built on Black labor, then spent four centuries finding new ways to steal it.

by Joe William Trotter Jr. 2019

4.20

41 ratings

⛏️ Black Labor History 💰 Racial Capitalism ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 🏭 Deindustrialization 🧳 Great Migration

The Populist Vision

by Charles Postel • 2007

Populists weren't anti-modern. They demanded public railroads, corporate-scale farms, and Jim Crow.

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💰 Gilded Age 🌾 American Populism 🚜 Rural History 🤝 Cooperative Economics 🔗 White Supremacy

The Populist Vision 88%

Populists weren't anti-modern. They demanded public railroads, corporate-scale farms, and Jim Crow.

by Charles Postel 2007

3.65

201 ratings

💰 Gilded Age 🌾 American Populism 🚜 Rural History 🤝 Cooperative Economics 🔗 White Supremacy

Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men

by Eric Foner • 1971

The ideology that built the Republican Party made its clash with the slave South inevitable.

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🏛️ Antebellum America ⚔️ Sectional Conflict 🗳️ Political Antislavery 📜 Constitutional Crisis 🧠 Racial Ideology

Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men 88%

The ideology that built the Republican Party made its clash with the slave South inevitable.

by Eric Foner 1971

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1k+ ratings

🏛️ Antebellum America ⚔️ Sectional Conflict 🗳️ Political Antislavery 📜 Constitutional Crisis 🧠 Racial Ideology

The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism

by Gerald Horne • 2018

Slavery, white supremacy, and capitalism: fused in the 1600s, they still power the modern world.

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🌊 Atlantic History 🏚️ Settler Colonialism 💰 Racial Capitalism ◻️ Origins Of Whiteness ⛓️ Slave Trade History

The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism Summary

The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism 88%

Slavery, white supremacy, and capitalism: fused in the 1600s, they still power the modern world.

by Gerald Horne 2018

4.26

189 ratings

🌊 Atlantic History 🏚️ Settler Colonialism 💰 Racial Capitalism ◻️ Origins Of Whiteness ⛓️ Slave Trade History

Slave Nation

by Alfred W. Blumrosen • 2005

The American Revolution was not about taxes. It began when a British judge ruled slavery illegal.

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📜 American Revolution ⛵ Colonial America ⛓️ Slavery And Capitalism ⚖️ Legal History Of Slavery 🏛️ Constitutional Origins

Slave Nation 88%

The American Revolution was not about taxes. It began when a British judge ruled slavery illegal.

by Alfred W. Blumrosen 2005

4.02

113 ratings

📜 American Revolution ⛵ Colonial America ⛓️ Slavery And Capitalism ⚖️ Legal History Of Slavery 🏛️ Constitutional Origins

Internal Improvement

by John Lauritz Larson • 2001

Public works were meant to knit the early republic together. Private capital drew the map instead.

3.73

🏛️ Early American Republic 🛤️ Infrastructure Politics 🚂 Railroad Development ⚖️ Federal Vs State Power 🦅 Republican Ideology

Internal Improvement 88%

Public works were meant to knit the early republic together. Private capital drew the map instead.

by John Lauritz Larson 2001

3.73

33 ratings

🏛️ Early American Republic 🛤️ Infrastructure Politics 🚂 Railroad Development ⚖️ Federal Vs State Power 🦅 Republican Ideology

The Global Minotaur

by Yanis Varoufakis • 2011

Global prosperity ran on America's twin deficits from the 1970s until 2008. Then the engine died.

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🏦 International Economics 🏛️ Political Economy 📉 Financial Crises 💵 Dollar Hegemony 🏭 Financialization

The Global Minotaur 88%

Global prosperity ran on America's twin deficits from the 1970s until 2008. Then the engine died.

by Yanis Varoufakis 2011

4.17

2k+ ratings

🏦 International Economics 🏛️ Political Economy 📉 Financial Crises 💵 Dollar Hegemony 🏭 Financialization

Yankee Leviathan

by Richard Franklin Bensel • 1991

The Confederacy's statist war machine, not the Constitution, built the modern American state.

3.69

📜 Civil War History 🏚️ Reconstruction Era 🏛️ State Formation 💰 Political Economy 🗳️ American Political Development

Yankee Leviathan 88%

The Confederacy's statist war machine, not the Constitution, built the modern American state.

by Richard Franklin Bensel 1991

3.69

49 ratings

📜 Civil War History 🏚️ Reconstruction Era 🏛️ State Formation 💰 Political Economy 🗳️ American Political Development

Monopoly Capital

by Paul A. Baran • 1966

A surplus the system cannot absorb: monopoly capitalism's real engine is not production, but waste.

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🏛️ Political Economy 🇺🇸 American Capitalism 📉 Economic Stagnation 💣 Military-Industrial Complex ⚠️ Crisis Theory

Monopoly Capital 88%

A surplus the system cannot absorb: monopoly capitalism's real engine is not production, but waste.

by Paul A. Baran 1966

4.20

276 ratings

🏛️ Political Economy 🇺🇸 American Capitalism 📉 Economic Stagnation 💣 Military-Industrial Complex ⚠️ Crisis Theory

Making It in America

by Rachel Slade • 2024

Sixty thousand American factories shuttered since NAFTA. One couple bet everything to open just one.

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🏭 American Manufacturing 📉 Manufacturing Decline 📜 Trade Policy 📦 Offshoring ✊ Labor Unions

Making It in America 87%

Sixty thousand American factories shuttered since NAFTA. One couple bet everything to open just one.

by Rachel Slade 2024

3.63

323 ratings

🏭 American Manufacturing 📉 Manufacturing Decline 📜 Trade Policy 📦 Offshoring ✊ Labor Unions

The Wages of Whiteness

by David R. Roediger • 1991

The white working class took racial status as partial payment. The bargain was a trap.

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🔨 Labor History 👤 Whiteness Studies 🧬 Racial Identity 💰 Racial Capitalism 🏛️ Antebellum America

The Wages of Whiteness 87%

The white working class took racial status as partial payment. The bargain was a trap.

by David R. Roediger 1991

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2k+ ratings

🔨 Labor History 👤 Whiteness Studies 🧬 Racial Identity 💰 Racial Capitalism 🏛️ Antebellum America

Small is Beautiful

by Ernst F. Schumacher • 1973

The case for an economics small enough to fit people, their work, and a finite planet.

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🌱 Ecological Economics 🔧 Human-Scale Technology 🛠️ Work And Meaning 📏 Limits To Growth ⚖️ Ethical Economics

Small is Beautiful 87%

The case for an economics small enough to fit people, their work, and a finite planet.

by Ernst F. Schumacher 1973

4.09

7k+ ratings

🌱 Ecological Economics 🔧 Human-Scale Technology 🛠️ Work And Meaning 📏 Limits To Growth ⚖️ Ethical Economics

Cape Cod and the Civil War

by Stauffer Miller • 2010

A peninsula voted its morals over its money, then became the Union's lifeline at sea.

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🏛️ Civil War Microhistory 📜 Massachusetts History ⚓ Naval History ✊ Abolitionism 🏠 Home Front Life

Cape Cod and the Civil War 87%

A peninsula voted its morals over its money, then became the Union's lifeline at sea.

by Stauffer Miller 2010

4.14

7 ratings

🏛️ Civil War Microhistory 📜 Massachusetts History ⚓ Naval History ✊ Abolitionism 🏠 Home Front Life

Slavery's Constitution

by David Waldstreicher • 2009

Six of 84 clauses protected slavery. The compromise that made the Civil War inevitable.

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📜 Constitutional History 🏛️ Early American Republic ⛓️ Slavery And Capitalism ⚖️ Slavery And Law 💥 Sectional Conflict

Slavery's Constitution 87%

Six of 84 clauses protected slavery. The compromise that made the Civil War inevitable.

by David Waldstreicher 2009

3.69

250 ratings

📜 Constitutional History 🏛️ Early American Republic ⛓️ Slavery And Capitalism ⚖️ Slavery And Law 💥 Sectional Conflict

Money Changes Everything

by William N. Goetzmann • 2016

Five thousand years of contracts and compound interest built cities, empires, and global trade.

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🏦 Financial History 🌏 Comparative Economics 🏛️ Sovereign Debt 💥 Bubbles And Crises 🎲 Financial Risk

Money Changes Everything 87%

Five thousand years of contracts and compound interest built cities, empires, and global trade.

by William N. Goetzmann 2016

4.03

530 ratings

🏦 Financial History 🌏 Comparative Economics 🏛️ Sovereign Debt 💥 Bubbles And Crises 🎲 Financial Risk

Capitalism in America

by Alan Greenspan • 2018

America's 400-year economic experiment: why each era's solution becomes the next era's problem.

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🏛️ Economic History 🇺🇸 American Capitalism 🏢 Business History 💵 Monetary History ⚖️ Government And Markets

Capitalism in America 87%

America's 400-year economic experiment: why each era's solution becomes the next era's problem.

by Alan Greenspan 2018

4.06

2k+ ratings

🏛️ Economic History 🇺🇸 American Capitalism 🏢 Business History 💵 Monetary History ⚖️ Government And Markets

Boom Bust

by Fred Harrison • 1999

Land speculation drives the 18-year boom-bust cycle. The next crash already builds.

3.95

🏠 Land Economics 🫧 Housing Bubbles 📉 Boom-Bust Cycles 💥 Financial Crises 📜 Georgist Economics

Boom Bust 87%

Land speculation drives the 18-year boom-bust cycle. The next crash already builds.

by Fred Harrison 1999

3.95

38 ratings

🏠 Land Economics 🫧 Housing Bubbles 📉 Boom-Bust Cycles 💥 Financial Crises 📜 Georgist Economics

The Logic of Life

by Tim Harford • 2008

Why risky sex, segregation, and office politics all have a rational explanation.

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The Logic of Life 87%

Why risky sex, segregation, and office politics all have a rational explanation.

by Tim Harford 2008

3.81

6k+ ratings

Factory Man

by Beth Macy • 2014

John Bassett III bet against offshoring. The survival of his Virginia town hung on it.

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🏭 American Manufacturing 🌍 Globalization Impact 🏘️ Small Town America ⚖️ Trade Policy 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Business

Factory Man 87%

John Bassett III bet against offshoring. The survival of his Virginia town hung on it.

by Beth Macy 2014

3.87

3k+ ratings

🏭 American Manufacturing 🌍 Globalization Impact 🏘️ Small Town America ⚖️ Trade Policy 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Business

Subprime Attention Crisis

by Tim Hwang • 2020

The internet's ad economy is a bubble of fake clicks, hidden fees, and bad incentives.

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🌐 Internet Economy 👀 Attention Economy 💥 Market Bubbles ⚠️ Systemic Risk 🕵️ Advertising Fraud

Subprime Attention Crisis 87%

The internet's ad economy is a bubble of fake clicks, hidden fees, and bad incentives.

by Tim Hwang 2020

3.61

1k+ ratings

🌐 Internet Economy 👀 Attention Economy 💥 Market Bubbles ⚠️ Systemic Risk 🕵️ Advertising Fraud

A Nation Without Borders

by Steven Hahn • 2016

The United States was an empire before it was a nation. Slavery, rebellion, and conquest built it.

4.00

332

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A Nation Without Borders 87%

The United States was an empire before it was a nation. Slavery, rebellion, and conquest built it.

by Steven Hahn 2016

4.00

332 ratings

🏛️ American Empire 💰 Slavery And Capitalism 🏜️ New Western History ⚔️ Civil War And Reconstruction 🗺️ Continental Expansion

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by Mehrsa Baradaran • 2015

Banks get public support but exclude the poor. The public option that restores the social contract.

4.09

626

🏦 Banking History 📜 Financial Regulation 🇺🇸 Us Economic Policy 🎣 Predatory Lending 🚫 Financial Exclusion

How the Other Half Banks 87%

Banks get public support but exclude the poor. The public option that restores the social contract.

by Mehrsa Baradaran 2015

4.09

626 ratings

🏦 Banking History 📜 Financial Regulation 🇺🇸 Us Economic Policy 🎣 Predatory Lending 🚫 Financial Exclusion

Cattle Kingdom

by Christopher Knowlton • 2017

The Wild West was a speculative bubble fueled by British aristocrats and popped by a single winter.

4.10

1k+

🤠 American West 🐄 Cattle Industry 📈 Economic History 💥 Boom And Bust 💰 Gilded Age

Cattle Kingdom 87%

The Wild West was a speculative bubble fueled by British aristocrats and popped by a single winter.

by Christopher Knowlton 2017

4.10

1k+ ratings

🤠 American West 🐄 Cattle Industry 📈 Economic History 💥 Boom And Bust 💰 Gilded Age

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