Editing Economic history (section)

== Notable works of economic history ==
[[File:Zentralbibliothek Zürich Das Kapital Marx 1867.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Karl Marx]], ''[[Capital: A Critique of Political Economy]]'' (1867)]]

=== Foundational works ===
* [[Milton Friedman]] and [[Anna Schwartz]], ''[[A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960]]'' (1963)
* [[Friedrich Hayek]], ''[[The Road to Serfdom]]'' (1944)
* [[Karl Marx]], ''[[Capital: A Critique of Political Economy]]'' (1867)
* [[Karl Polanyi]], ''[[The Great Transformation (book)|The Great Transformation: Origins of Our Time]]'' (1944)
* [[David Ricardo]], ''[[On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation]]'' (1817)
* [[Adam Smith]], ''[[An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations]]'' (1776)

=== General ===
* [[Robert C. Allen]], ''Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction'' (2011)
* [[Gregory Clark (economist)|Gregory Clark]], ''A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World'' (2007)
* [[Ronald Findlay]] and [[Kevin O'Rourke (economist)|Kevin O’Rourke]], ''Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium'' (2007)
* [[Robert Heilbroner]], ''The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers'' (1953)
* [[Eric Roll]], ''A History of Economic Thought'' (1923)

=== Ancient economies ===
* [[Moses Finley]], ''[[The Ancient Economy]]'' (1973)
* [[Walter Scheidel]], ''The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century'' (2017)
* [[Peter Temin]], ''The Roman Market Economy'' (2012)

=== Economic growth and development ===
* [[Daron Acemoglu]] and [[James A. Robinson (economist)|James A. Robinson]], ''[[Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty]]'' (2012)
* [[Alexander Gerschenkron]], ''Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective: A Book of Essays'' (1962)
* [[Robert J. Gordon]], ''The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War'' (2016)
* [[David S. Landes]], ''[[The Wealth and Poverty of Nations|The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are So Rich and Some So Poor]]'' (1998)
* [[Deirdre McCloskey]], ''Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World'' (2016)
* [[Joel Mokyr]], ''The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress'' (1990)
* [[Kenneth Pomeranz]], ''[[The Great Divergence|The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy]]'' (2000)
* [[Walt Whitman Rostow]], ''[[Rostow's stages of growth|The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto]]'' (1971)
* [[Jeffrey Sachs]], ''[[The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time]]'' (2005)
* [[Amartya Sen]], ''[[Development as Freedom]]'' (1999)
* [[William Easterly]], ''The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good]'' (2006)

=== History of money ===
* [[Christine Desan]], ''Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism'' (2014)
* [[William N. Goetzmann]], ''Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible'' (2016)
* [[David Graeber]], ''[[Debt: The First 5000 Years]]'' (2011)

=== Business history ===
* [[David Cannadine]], ''[[Mellon: An American Life]]'' (2006)
* [[Alfred D. Chandler Jr.]], ''[[The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business]]'' (1977)
* [[Ron Chernow]], ''[[The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance]]'' (1990)
* [[Ron Chernow]], ''Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.'' (1998)
* [[William D. Cohan]], ''[[Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World]]''
* [[Naomi Lamoreaux]], ''The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895–1904'' (1985)
* [[David Nasaw]], ''Andrew Carnegie'' (2006)
* [[Jean Strouse]], ''Morgan: American Financier'' (1999)

=== Financial history ===
[[File:Capital in the Twenty-First Century (front cover).jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Thomas Piketty]], ''[[Capital in the Twenty-First Century]]'' (2013)]]
* [[Liaquat Ahamed]], ''[[Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World]]'' (2009)
* [[Mark Blyth]], ''[[Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea]]'' (2013)
* [[Charles W. Calomiris]] and [[Stephen H. Haber]], ''Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit'' (2014)
* [[Barry Eichengreen]], ''Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System'' (2010)
* [[Barry Eichengreen]], ''Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System'' (1996)
* [[Niall Ferguson]], ''[[The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World]]'' (2008)
* [[Harold James (historian)|Harold James]], ''[[International Monetary Cooperation Since Bretton Woods]]'' (1996)
* [[Carmen M. Reinhart]] and [[Kenneth S. Rogoff]], ''This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly'' (2009)
* [[Benn Steil]], ''[[The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order]]'' (2013)
* [[Adam Tooze]], ''[[The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy]]'' (2006)
* László Vértesy, ''Financial Perspectives of Economic History'' (2024) [https://real.mtak.hu/198128/ Volume I], [https://real.mtak.hu/198164/ Volume II]

=== Globalization and inequality ===
* [[Sven Beckert]], ''Empire of Cotton: A Global History'' (2014)
* [[William J. Bernstein]], ''[[A Splendid Exchange|A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World from Prehistory to Today]]'' (2008).
* [[Niall Ferguson]], ''The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000'' (2001).
* [[Robert Fogel]] and [[Stanley L. Engerman]], ''[[Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery]]'' (1974).
* [[Claudia Goldin]], ''Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women'' (1990).
* [[Harold James (historian)|Harold James]], ''The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression'' (2009).
* [[Kevin O'Rourke (economist)|Kevin O'Rourke]] and [[Jeffrey G. Williamson]], ''Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth-century Atlantic Economy'' (1999)
* [[Thomas Piketty]], ''[[Capital in the Twenty-First Century]]'' (2013).
* [[Thomas Piketty]], ''The Economics of Inequality'' (2015).
* [[Thomas Piketty]], ''[[Capital and Ideology]]'' (2020).
* [[Emmanuel Saez]] and [[Gabriel Zucman]], ''The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay'' (2019).
* [[Gabriel Zucman]], ''[[The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens]]'' (2015).