Globalizing Capital
by Barry J. Eichengreen · first published 1998
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…but hard. If you want something readable, start with Friedman and Schwartz's The Great Contraction which deals with monetary issue around the Great Depression. Barry Eichengreen did a good book with Globalizing Capital that deals with more recent times from a more Keynesian view. (I should say, Keynes himself was very readable and you can find seeds of Monetarism in the General Theory.) The Austrians' economics is…
on “Ask HN: Monetary Policy / Economics Reading List” ↗…which is really good, but the Khan Academy videos on banking mostly cover the same material. Personally I've learned a lot from reading economic history. Some books I can recommend are: Eichengreen - Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System Frieden - Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century Soros - Alchemy of Finance (skip the first couple of chapters on his reflexivity…
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