Business and Economics

Recent books on business and economics.

Updated August 28, 2025
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Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a Superpower (America in the World)
Professor Mary Bridges
Paper Book
How the creation of a new banking infrastructure in the early twentieth century established the United States as a global financial power The dominance of US multinational businesses today can seem at first like an inevitable byproduct of the nation's superpower status. In...
The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability
Annette Kehnel
Paper Book
A fascinating blend of history and ecological economics that uncovers the medieval precedents for modern concepts of sustainable living.   In The Green Ages, historian Annette Kehnel explores sustainability initiatives from the Middle Ages, highlighting...
The Licensing Racket: How We Decide Who Is Allowed to Work, and Why It Goes Wrong
Rebecca Haw Allensworth
Paper Book
A bottom-up investigation of the broken system of professional licensing, affecting everyone from hairdressers and morticians to doctors, lawyers, real estate agents, and those who rely on their services. Tens of millions of US workers are required by law to have a license to do their jobs...
Thrive: Maximizing Well-Being in the Age of AI
Ravi Bapna
Paper Book
How AI can positively impact so many aspects of our daily lives, from health and wellness to work, education, and home life. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful general-purpose technology that is reshaping the modern economy, but misperceptions about AI stand in the way of...
The Economy of Promises: Trust, Power, and Credit in America
Bruce G. Carruthers
Paper Book
A comprehensive and illuminating account of the history of credit in America--and how it continues to divide the haves from the have-nots The Economy of Promises is a far-reaching study of credit in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. Synthesizing and surveying...

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