United States
The deepest capital markets in the world and the reserve currency, which means US credit cycles set the price of risk everywhere; returns here come from scale, corporate governance and repeated bouts of leverage.
11 books · 7 people behind it
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- The Big ShortMichael Lewis, 2010
- The Great Crash 1929John Kenneth Galbraith, 1955
- The Rise and Fall of American GrowthRobert J. Gordon, 2016
The people behind it 7
Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.
Academics 3
Journalists 4
JK
John Kenneth Galbraith1 book here
Michael Lewis1 book hereFL
Frederick Lewis Allen1 book hereJB
John Brooks1 book hereBooks 11
John Kenneth Galbraith · 1955 · Still the standard account of speculative mania and its aftermath.
Milton Friedman, Anna Jacobson Schwartz · 1963 · The money-supply reading of every American boom and bust.
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. · 1977 · How the managerial corporation replaced the market in coordinating American business.
Michael Lewis · 2010 · The subprime collapse through the few who saw it coming.
Robert J. Gordon · 2016 · The productivity case for why the post-1970 US grows slower than the myth.
Frederick Lewis Allen · 1952 · How American life and incomes changed between 1900 and 1950
John Brooks · 1969 · Wall Street from 1920 to 1938, by the best reporter the Street has had.
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David McCullough · 1992 · Pulitzer-winning presidential biography; the postwar American decisions
Atif Mian, Amir Sufi · 2014 · Household leverage, not banks, as the transmission mechanism of the 2008 bust.
Alan Greenspan, Adrian Wooldridge · 2018 · A former Fed chairman's economic history of creative destruction.
Irving Stone · 1956 · Narrative of the American West's mining and railroad fortunes