Finance Books
Last updated: June 12, 2026
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A Brief Popular Account of all the Financial Panics and Commercial Revulsions in the US from 1690 to 1857
by Members of the New York Press -
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History of Crises under the National Banking System
by O M W Sprague -
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Hard Times
by Studs Terkel -
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The Crucial Years
by Dorothea Lange -
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A Primer on Securitization
by Edited by Leon Kendall and Michael Fishman
The best books on Financial Crises, recommended by Gary Gorton
The best books on Financial Crises, recommended by Gary Gorton
Yale professor Gary Gorton says today’s financial crisis may feel like a unique event, but in the US and in the UK crises are historically common. And we have a history of similar responses.
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Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises
by Charles Kindleberger -
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This Time Is Different
by Carmen Reinhart & Kenneth Rogoff -
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John Maynard Keynes: 1883-1946: Economist, Philosopher, Statesman
by Robert Skidelsky -
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A Demon of Our Own Design
by Richard Bookstaber -
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Sources of the Self
by Charles Taylor
The best books on Financial Crashes, recommended by Charles Morris
The best books on Financial Crashes, recommended by Charles Morris
The former banker and author of 12 books on economics says that over the last 30 years economics has been colonising every science. “Even something like education all comes down to incentives”
The best books on Investment, recommended by Marc Faber
Marc Faber, the infamous investor known as “Dr Doom”, discusses books he considers indispensable for those interested in investment. He stresses the importance for investors to be historically aware, and holds that Irving Fisher is one of the best economists of the 20th century.
The best books on The Poor and Their Money, recommended by Stuart Rutherford
Modern microfinance was born in the late 1970s, and is now viewed as a key way of helping people in poor countries get out of poverty. Author and practitioner Stuart Rutherford recommends the best books to get a basic understanding of microfinance.
