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Regulation, central banks and public policy

Books on how governments regulate banks, markets and industries: the Federal Reserve, financial crises and bailouts, antitrust, health care, tax, energy and climate policy.

111 books on Regulation, central banks and public policy, 9 of them tier 1, recommended by 27 people including Mohnish Pabrai and Patrick Collison.

111 books · 37 experts

Start here

  1. The Economics of RegulationAlfred E. Kahn, 1970
  2. Antitrust LawRichard A. Posner, 1976
  3. Prophets of RegulationThomas K. McCraw, 1984
  4. Cadillac DesertMarc Reisner, 1986
  5. A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 1Allan H. Meltzer, 2003

The best books on Regulation, central banks and public policy 111

Alfred E. Kahn · 1970
The standard theory of rate base, allowed return and marginal-cost pricing.
Richard A. Posner · 1976
The Chicago School's economic reformulation of doctrine.
Thomas K. McCraw · 1984
Pulitzer history of the people who built American utility regulation.
Marc Reisner · 1986
The canonical account of western water politics and who ended up owning it.
Allan H. Meltzer · 2003
The institutional history from the inside of the minutes.
Michael Pollan · 2006
The corn-calorie economy traced through four meals.
William Nordhaus · 2013
The Nobel case for pricing carbon and what a price should be.
Adam Tooze · 2018
Links the euro crisis to the dollar funding system and the transatlantic banking network.
Barry Eichengreen, Asmaa El-Ganainy, Rui Esteves, Kris James Mitchener · 2021
The long history of state borrowing and when it is sustainable.
Louis D. Brandeis · 1914
The contemporary case against the Morgan money trust.
Ferdinand Pecora · 1939
The investigator's own account of the hearings that produced the SEC
“It's a passage from one of my favorite books, "Wall Street Under Oath.”Howard Marks
Recommended byHoward Marks
Robert H. Bork · 1978
The consumer-welfare argument that let network scale go unchallenged.
Steve Coll · 1986
The breakup of AT&T.
Ben S. Bernanke, Thomas Laubach, Frederic S. Mishkin, Adam S. Posen · 1999
The framework New Zealand invented in 1989, assessed against later adopters.
A. Denny Ellerman, Paul L. Joskow, Richard Schmalensee, Juan-Pablo Montero, Elizabeth M. Bailey · 2000
The acid-rain programme: the one emissions market with a clean verdict.
Adam B. Jaffe, Josh Lerner · 2004
How the patent system drifted from incentive to tax.
Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Scott Burns · 2004
The fiscal arithmetic of unfunded old-age promises.
Josh Lerner · 2009
Why state attempts to manufacture a venture asset class mostly fail.
Raghuram G. Rajan · 2010
Inequality, global imbalances and credit as substitutes for income.
Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway · 2010
The tobacco playbook for manufacturing scientific uncertainty.
Recommended byNat EliasonElon Musk
E. R. Yescombe · 2010
How PPP concessions are structured, priced and argued over.
Tim Wu · 2010
How communications industries consolidate; frames cable's regulatory position.
Alan S. Blinder · 2013
The clearest economist's account of the crisis and the policy response.
Susan P. Crawford · 2013
Built around the Comcast-NBCUniversal deal and broadband monopoly.
Michael Moss · 2013
Industry-wide, with Nestlé among the main companies examined.
Neil Irwin · 2013
Bernanke, Trichet and King through the crisis; central banks as FX actors.
Anat Admati, Martin Hellwig · 2013
The case for far higher bank equity capital.
Joseph R. Blasi, Richard B. Freeman, Douglas L. Kruse · 2013
The long American history of profit-sharing and broad-based ownership.
Charles W. Calomiris, Stephen H. Haber · 2014
Banking crises as outcomes of political bargains, not accidents.
Atif Mian, Amir Sufi · 2014
Household leverage, not banks, as the transmission mechanism of the 2008 bust.
Eileen Appelbaum, Rosemary Batt · 2014
Standard scholarly treatment of fee structures and returns in Blackstone's industry.
Peter Conti-Brown · 2016
What Fed independence legally is, versus what people assume.
Elisabeth Rosenthal · 2017
How healthcare spending is actually generated, payer by payer.
Tim Wu · 2018
The counter-case, and the Brandeisian revival.
Recommended byJeff Jordan
Adele Ferguson · 2019
The reporting that forced the Royal Commission into financial misconduct.
Katherine Eban · 2019
Generic manufacturing and data fraud in offshore plants.
Matt Stoller · 2019
A century of American anti-monopoly politics.
“He cites it as the well-researched, documented case on monopoly power, calling antitrust a real and studied problem.”David Heinemeier Hansson
Gerald Posner · 2020
Industry history covering J&J's opioid marketing and its regulatory politics.
E. Richard Brown · 1979
How the philanthropy reshaped American medicine; the money after the oil.
Andrew Chetley · 1986
The infant formula marketing controversy and the Nestlé boycott.
Barbara Sturken Peterson, James Glab · 1994
Philip J. Hilts · 1996
Neil deMause, Joanna Cagan · 1998
The stadium-subsidy machine that props up franchise valuations.
James Bessen, Michael J. Meurer · 2008
Evidence that patents work poorly as property; the IP-as-asset skeptic case.
Mitchell A. Orenstein · 2008
How Chile's AFP model was exported worldwide, and who profited.
Robert Glennon · 2009
Glennon's case for pricing and trading water rights.
Dieter Helm · 2012
Why European carbon policy delivered so little; a sceptic's audit.
Marion Nestle · 2015
The regulatory and tax threat to carbonated volumes; Open Library unreachable.
Aaron Perzanowski, Jason Schultz · 2016
What licensing instead of selling does to the buyer.
Chris McGreal · 2018
Regulatory and distribution failures around the prescription epidemic.
Susan P. Crawford · 2018
The broadband infrastructure argument against incumbent cable operators.
Brad Smith, Carol Ann Browne · 2019
Insider account by Microsoft's president on tech policy and regulation.
David Dayen · 2020
Concentration traced sector by sector through its effects on customers.
William Lazonick, Jang-Sup Shin · 2020
The academic case that repurchases hollow out corporate investment.
Ben S. Bernanke · 2022
Insider account of the Fed from Burns through the QE era.
Scott Higham, Sari Horwitz · 2022
The distributors and the litigation that ran alongside Purdue.
Brendan Ballou · 2023
The prosecutorial case against the industry KKR created; read as counterweight.
Austin Frerick · 2024
Concentration of ownership across American agriculture.
William Greider · 1987
The Volcker Fed from the inside; still the fullest political account.
Recommended byMohnish Pabrai
Charles C. Euchner · 1993
Why teams move and cities pay to keep them.
John Vidal · 1997
The London libel trial that became a reputational case study.
Ken Auletta · 2001
Recommended byKeith Rabois
Robert E. Rubin, Jacob Weisberg · 2003
Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg · 2006
Creating Value-Based Competition on Results
Robert B. Laughlin · 2008
Recommended bySam Altman
Arnaud Brohé, Nicholas Eyre, Nicholas Howarth · 2009
International business guide to allowances, offsets and registries.
Hunter Lewis · 2009
Polemic against Keynesian policy from an Austrian-leaning investor
“This is another timely classic given the present condition. The outline structure of the book is brilliant.”Christopher Bloomstran
Steven Garber · 2010
RAND occasional paper; the early survey of the US market.
Gordon Brown · 2010
Recommended byBill Gates
Henry M. Paulson · 2010
Insider memoir: the Treasury Secretary's version of the same weeks.
Recommended byMohnish Pabrai
Richard C. Sauer · 2010
A former SEC lawyer on naked shorting and the fights around it.
Recommended byMohnish Pabrai
Jonas Meckling · 2011
How business lobbies built emissions trading as the chosen instrument.
Viral V. Acharya, Matthew Richardson, Stijn van Nieuwerburgh, Lawrence J. White · 2011
Recommended byMohnish Pabrai
David Goldhill · 2013
Recommended byBill Gurley
Cass R. Sunstein · 2013
Recommended byDaniel Kahneman
Ellen Gustafson · 2014
Recommended byEv Williams
Roger Lowenstein · 2015
How the Federal Reserve was argued into existence, 1907-1913.
“Listed among Klarman's favorite financial-history reads.”Seth Klarman
Recommended bySeth Klarman
Sebastian Mallaby · 2016
Open Library unreachable during build; title confirmed on his CFR expert page
Conor Dougherty · 2020
Recommended byMarc Andreessen
Meredith Angwin · 2020
Deregulated wholesale markets and reliability risk.
Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera · 2023
OL lists title as 'Big Fail'
Richard Layard, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve · 2023
Recommended byAndrew Wilkinson
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson · 2025
Why building housing, energy and infrastructure became so hard in America
Various Authors
Recommended byRichard Branson

Experts 37

The people who wrote this page's books, and the people who recommend them.

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Roger Lowensteinwrote 2 books here
Bethany McLeanwrote 2 books hereBarry Eichengreenwrote 1 book here
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Joel Greenblattwrote 1 book here
John C. Boglewrote 1 book hereMichael E. Porterwrote 1 book hereRobert J. Shillerwrote 1 book here
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Sebastian Mallabywrote 1 book here
Vaclav Smilwrote 1 book hereEzra Kleinwrote 1 book here

Recommenders 27

MP
Mohnish Pabrairecommends 12 books here
Bill Gatesrecommends 6 books herePatrick Collisonrecommends 6 books herePaul Grahamrecommends 2 books hereWarren Buffettrecommends 2 books here
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Andrew Wilkinsonrecommends 2 books here
BS
Balaji S. Srinivasanrecommends 2 books here
NE
Nat Eliasonrecommends 2 books here
Richard Bransonrecommends 2 books hereDaniel Kahnemanrecommends 1 book hereHoward Marksrecommends 1 book hereMarc Andreessenrecommends 1 book here
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