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“This is my favorite title of any economics book, the one I most wish I had come up with. And it’s an excellent book, too. The basic thesis is that capitalists—like the CEOs that run major corporations—do not actually like competition or markets. They like to be insulated from competition, to receive subsidies from the government, and inside the corporation it is more like Soviet-style central planning than the stereotypical American capitalism.” Read more...
The best books on Market Competition
Jason Furman, Economist
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
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A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960
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The Passions and the Interests
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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
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This Time Is Different
by Carmen Reinhart & Kenneth Rogoff -
The Worldly Philosophers
by Robert L Heilbroner
