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A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 by Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz

“When we look at the monetary history of the United States and ask whether, during those times, the central bank looked anything like it does now, the answer is ‘no’. It’s a book that addresses why that was”

Ricardo Reis,

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The Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett

“Garrett draws the human population explosion and increasing urbanisation together with the fact that microbes can spread much more easily when people are crowded together. At the time The Coming Plague was published, it was a big eye opener and it became a bestseller.”

Dorothy H. Crawford,

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American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic by Nancy Bristow

“Bristow considers the pandemic from a variety of angles, thinking about how life changed in ways that varied based on class, gender, profession, race, and locality, thinking about what kinds of events were cancelled, what sorts of disagreements doctors had, and how doctors and nurses diverged in their reactions, how cities grappled with various practical problems….What also makes Bristow’s work resonate now is the way she focuses on how ad hoc the response was. Officials and doctors had to adjust as time went on. That gets at something frustrating I’ve found with coronavirus, which is that it’s hard to settle into a routine when the rules keep changing. Even when you think they’re at their most severe, there still are tweaks; you feel constantly unsettled. I think that certainly comes across in Bristow’s work.”

Alex Chase-Levenson,

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Microbe Hunters by Paul de Kruif

“Microbe Hunters has never been out of print and is perhaps the most successful medical science book ever written.”

John Rhodes,

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The Plague by Albert Camus

“It has been said that he did extensive research for The Plague. The ‘plague’ is generally taken to be a metaphor or meta-commentary on Nazism during World War II. I’m not necessarily sold on that as the exclusive interpretation of the novel. Other people have argued that he was reading about plagues during the time that he was writing this. But one thing that’s really interesting in the background is that, for at least a period of time while writing the novel, Camus was trying to recover from a bout of tuberculosis and he was staying in a village in southern France in the Free Zone (Vichy)”

Jamie Lombardi,

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    The best books on Immunology, recommended by John Rhodes

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    The best books on Immunology - An Inquiry Into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae by Edward Jenner

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    An Inquiry Into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae
    by Edward Jenner

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    The best books on Immunology - Microbe Hunters by Paul de Kruif

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    Microbe Hunters
    by Paul de Kruif

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    The best books on Immunology - The Beautiful Cure: The New Science of Human Health by Daniel M Davis

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    The Beautiful Cure: The New Science of Human Health
    by Daniel M Davis

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    The best books on Immunology - Nemesis by Philip Roth

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    Nemesis
    by Philip Roth

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    The best books on Immunology - Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us by Paul Offit

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    Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us
    by Paul Offit

The best books on Immunology, recommended by John Rhodes

John Rhodes, immunologist and author of The End of Plagues and How to Make a Vaccine, selects five of the best books to help the layperson understand the human immune system in all its fiendish complexity—and explains why the discovery of a successful vaccine is only the initial breakthrough in the long and logistically challenging battle for disease eradication.

    The best books on Kamala Harris, recommended by Five Books

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    The best books on Kamala Harris - The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris

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    The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
    by Kamala Harris

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    The best books on Kamala Harris - Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea by Ana Ramírez González (illustrator) & Meena Harris

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    Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea
    by Ana Ramírez González (illustrator) & Meena Harris

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    The best books on Kamala Harris - Superheroes Are Everywhere by Kamala Harris & Mechal Renee Roe (illustrator)

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    Superheroes Are Everywhere
    by Kamala Harris & Mechal Renee Roe (illustrator)

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    The best books on Kamala Harris - Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice by Laura Freeman (illustrator) & Nikki Grimes

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    Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice
    by Laura Freeman (illustrator) & Nikki Grimes

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    The best books on Kamala Harris - The Truths We Hold: An American Journey (Young Readers Edition) by Kamala Harris

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    The Truths We Hold: An American Journey (Young Readers Edition)
    by Kamala Harris

The best books on Kamala Harris, recommended by Five Books

If you want to know more about Kamala Harris, the 49th Vice President of the United States and the first woman to hold the job, her own memoir is a great place to start, especially as there aren’t (m)any books about her yet. It’s available for different age groups, including children and teenagers. We’ve put together this list of her books at speed, and will update it as soon as we can do a full Five Books interview.

    The best books on Joe Biden, recommended by Ronald A. Klain

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    The best books on Joe Biden - What It Takes by Richard Ben Cramer

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    What It Takes
    by Richard Ben Cramer

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    The best books on Joe Biden - Matters of Principle by Mark Gitenstein

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    Matters of Principle
    by Mark Gitenstein

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    The best books on Joe Biden - Where the Light Enters by Jill Biden

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    Where the Light Enters
    by Jill Biden

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    The best books on Joe Biden - Promise Me, Dad by Joe Biden

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    Promise Me, Dad
    by Joe Biden

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    The best books on Joe Biden - The Cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney

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    The Cure at Troy
    by Seamus Heaney

The best books on Joe Biden, recommended by Ronald A. Klain

On January 20th, 2021, Joe Biden became the 46th President of the United States. Here Ronald A. Klain, the veteran lawyer who is once again serving as Biden's chief of staff, recommends books that show the man behind the public persona including his love of Irish poetry, the string of terrible personal tragedies that have affected his life and career, and his leading role in blocking a Supreme Court appointment that would've decimated abortion rights.

    The best books on Viruses, recommended by Dorothy H. Crawford

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    The best books on Viruses - The Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett

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    The Coming Plague
    by Laurie Garrett

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    The best books on Viruses - Plagues and Peoples by William McNeill

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    Plagues and Peoples
    by William McNeill

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    The best books on Viruses - The African Aids Epidemic: A History by John Iliffe

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    The African Aids Epidemic: A History
    by John Iliffe

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    The best books on Viruses - No Time to Lose: A Life In Pursuit Of Deadly Viruses by Peter Piot

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    No Time to Lose: A Life In Pursuit Of Deadly Viruses
    by Peter Piot

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    The best books on Viruses - The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins & Yan Wong

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    The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
    by Richard Dawkins & Yan Wong

The best books on Viruses, recommended by Dorothy H. Crawford

Many of us have developed a new fascination for viruses and virology during the global COVID-19 crisis. Here, Dorothy Crawford, professor of medical microbiology and the author of Viruses: A Very Short Introduction, selects five of the best books on viruses for the general reader.

    The Economics of Coronavirus: A Reading List, recommended by Ricardo Reis

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    The Economics of Coronavirus: A Reading List - Free Trade Under Fire by Douglas A Irwin

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    Free Trade Under Fire
    by Douglas A Irwin

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    The Economics of Coronavirus: A Reading List - A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 by Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz

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    A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960
    by Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz

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    The Economics of Coronavirus: A Reading List - The Liquidation of Government Debt (Economic Policy, Volume 30, Issue 82, April 2015) by Carmen Reinhart & M. Belen Sbrancia

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    The Liquidation of Government Debt (Economic Policy, Volume 30, Issue 82, April 2015)
    by Carmen Reinhart & M. Belen Sbrancia

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    The Economics of Coronavirus: A Reading List - The Great Reversal: How America Gave up on Free Markets by Thomas Philippon

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    The Great Reversal: How America Gave up on Free Markets
    by Thomas Philippon

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    The Economics of Coronavirus: A Reading List - Hard Head, Soft Hearts: Tough-minded Economics for a Just Society by Alan S Blinder

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    Hard Head, Soft Hearts: Tough-minded Economics for a Just Society
    by Alan S Blinder

The Economics of Coronavirus: A Reading List, recommended by Ricardo Reis

As we deal with the economic fallout of coronavirus, what lessons can economic theory and economic history teach us as we navigate the months ahead? Ricardo Reis, professor of economics at the London School of Economics—and consultant to both the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve—recommends four books and one article to help us think through the economic challenges posed by Covid-19.

    Books on Living Through an Epidemic, recommended by Alex Chase-Levenson

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    Books on Living Through an Epidemic - The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys

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    The Diary of Samuel Pepys
    by Samuel Pepys

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    Books on Living Through an Epidemic - American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic by Nancy Bristow

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    American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
    by Nancy Bristow

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    Books on Living Through an Epidemic - The Last Man by Mary Shelley

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    The Last Man
    by Mary Shelley

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    Books on Living Through an Epidemic - The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866 by Charles E Rosenberg

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    The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866
    by Charles E Rosenberg

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    Books on Living Through an Epidemic - Eothen by Alexander Kinglake

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    Eothen
    by Alexander Kinglake

Books on Living Through an Epidemic, recommended by Alex Chase-Levenson

The Covid-19 crisis is often described as an ‘unprecedented’ event, but in the past outbreaks of virulent disease were much more a part of our lives. Historian Alex Chase-Levenson, author of The Yellow Flag, recommends five books that focus on the experiences of those living through an epidemic.

    The best books on Pandemics, recommended by Christian W. McMillen

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    The best books on Pandemics - Faith, Reason, and the Plague in Seventeenth Century Tuscany by Carlo Cippolla

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    Faith, Reason, and the Plague in Seventeenth Century Tuscany
    by Carlo Cippolla

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    The best books on Pandemics - Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life by James Daschuk

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    Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life
    by James Daschuk

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    The best books on Pandemics - The Making of a Tropical Disease: A Short History of Malaria by Randall Packard

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    The Making of a Tropical Disease: A Short History of Malaria
    by Randall Packard

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    The best books on Pandemics - American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic by Nancy Bristow

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    American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
    by Nancy Bristow

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    The best books on Pandemics - Epidemic Invasions: Yellow Fever and the Limits of Cuban Independence, 1878–1930 by Mariola Espinosa

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    Epidemic Invasions: Yellow Fever and the Limits of Cuban Independence, 1878–1930
    by Mariola Espinosa

The best books on Pandemics, recommended by Christian W. McMillen

With coronavirus causing widespread panic, we would do well to educate ourselves about the history of pandemics and disease. University of Virginia historian and associate dean Christian W. McMillen, author of Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction, recommends the best introductions to the subject.

    The Best Books to Read in Quarantine, recommended by Jenny Davidson

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    The Best Books to Read in Quarantine - The Decameron by Boccaccio

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    The Decameron
    by Boccaccio

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    The Best Books to Read in Quarantine - A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe

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    A Journal of the Plague Year
    by Daniel Defoe

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    The Best Books to Read in Quarantine - The Plague by Albert Camus

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    The Plague
    by Albert Camus

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    The Best Books to Read in Quarantine - Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy, Book 1 by Mira Grant

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    Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy, Book 1
    by Mira Grant

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    The Best Books to Read in Quarantine - Severance by Ling Ma

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    Severance
    by Ling Ma

The Best Books to Read in Quarantine, recommended by Jenny Davidson

Times of disease and pestilence have much to tell us about the human condition. Jenny Davidson, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, suggests some of the best books to read if you’re self-isolating or in quarantine.

    The Best Donald Trump Books, recommended by Tony Schwartz

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    The Best Donald Trump Books - Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild

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    Strangers in Their Own Land
    by Arlie Russell Hochschild

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    The Best Donald Trump Books - American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump by Tim Alberta

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    American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump
    by Tim Alberta

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    The Best Donald Trump Books - Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff

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    Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
    by Michael Wolff

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    The Best Donald Trump Books - Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us by Amanda Carpenter

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    Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us
    by Amanda Carpenter

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    The Best Donald Trump Books - The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump by Bandy Lee

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    The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump
    by Bandy Lee

The Best Donald Trump Books, recommended by Tony Schwartz

Around the world, people were taken aback when the populist candidate, a real estate developer and reality TV show star called Donald Trump, was elected as the 45th President of the United States. Here Tony Schwartz, Trump’s co-author on his bestselling book, The Art of the Deal, talks us through how that happened and why Trump is so mesmerising, even to those who oppose him.

    Arthur Ammann recommends the best books on the HIV/Aids Plague

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    Arthur Ammann recommends the best books on the HIV/Aids Plague - The Plague by Albert Camus

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    The Plague
    by Albert Camus

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    Arthur Ammann recommends the best books on the HIV/Aids Plague - The Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett

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    The Coming Plague
    by Laurie Garrett

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    Arthur Ammann recommends the best books on the HIV/Aids Plague - And the Band Played on by Randy Shilts

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    And the Band Played on
    by Randy Shilts

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    Arthur Ammann recommends the best books on the HIV/Aids Plague - Plagues and Peoples by William McNeill

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    Plagues and Peoples
    by William McNeill

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    Arthur Ammann recommends the best books on the HIV/Aids Plague - The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the Fight Against AIDS by Helen Epstein

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    The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the Fight Against AIDS
    by Helen Epstein

Arthur Ammann recommends the best books on the HIV/Aids Plague

When dealing with epidemics, science does not have all the answers and relying on a new miracle drug is not always the solution. We must also learn the lessons of history, argues the veteran doctor of the HIV/Aids epidemic, Arthur Ammann. He picks the best books on ‘plagues.’

    The best books on The Lessons of the Great Depression, recommended by Robert Barro

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    The best books on The Lessons of the Great Depression - A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 by Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz

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    A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960
    by Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz

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    The best books on The Lessons of the Great Depression - Macroeconomic Effects from Government Purchases and Taxes by Robert Barro

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    Macroeconomic Effects from Government Purchases and Taxes
    by Robert Barro

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    The best books on The Lessons of the Great Depression - Identifying Government Spending Shocks by Valerie Ramey

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    Identifying Government Spending Shocks
    by Valerie Ramey

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    The best books on The Lessons of the Great Depression - Essays on the Great Depression by Ben Bernanke

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    Essays on the Great Depression
    by Ben Bernanke

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    The best books on The Lessons of the Great Depression - The Great Depression in the United States from a Neoclassical Perspective by Harold Cole and Lee Ohanian

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    The Great Depression in the United States from a Neoclassical Perspective
    by Harold Cole and Lee Ohanian

The best books on The Lessons of the Great Depression, recommended by Robert Barro

Harvard macroeconomist Robert Barro takes issue with some common assumptions about the Great Depression, and how America got out of it.

    The best books on The Euro, recommended by Barry Eichengreen

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    The best books on The Euro - Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt

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    Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
    by Tony Judt

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    The best books on The Euro - The Euro by David Marsh

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    The Euro
    by David Marsh

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    The best books on The Euro - Varieties of Capitalism by Peter Hall and David Soskice

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    Varieties of Capitalism
    by Peter Hall and David Soskice

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    The best books on The Euro - The Euro by Marco Buti

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    The Euro
    by Marco Buti

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    The best books on The Euro - Europe and the Euro by Alberto Alesina and Francesco Giavazzi

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    Europe and the Euro
    by Alberto Alesina and Francesco Giavazzi

The best books on The Euro, recommended by Barry Eichengreen

With hindsight, was the euro a good idea? Will it come through the present crisis intact or will any country decide to leave? And what happens if they do? Economist Barry Eichengreen recommends the best books on the euro.

    The Best Vaccine Books, recommended by Seth Mnookin

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    The Best Vaccine Books - Polio: An American Story by David Oshinsky

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    Polio: An American Story
    by David Oshinsky

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    The Best Vaccine Books - Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver by Arthur Allen

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    Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver
    by Arthur Allen

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    The Best Vaccine Books - The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis by Paul Offit

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    The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis
    by Paul Offit

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    The Best Vaccine Books - Microbe Hunters by Paul de Kruif

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    Microbe Hunters
    by Paul de Kruif

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    The Best Vaccine Books - The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic by Steven Johnson

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    The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic
    by Steven Johnson

The Best Vaccine Books, recommended by Seth Mnookin

November 9th, 2020: We’ve just heard the news that Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine is 90% effective, at least in the short-term, raising the possibility that the coronavirus pandemic may finally be brought to an end. The history of vaccines is an absolutely fascinating one, and we highly recommend all the books discussed in this 2013 interview with Seth Mnookin, author of The Panic Virus and Professor of Science Writing at MIT. These are all gripping reads that tell the story of vaccines, medicine’s greatest life-saver, and the risks people took to find them.

    The best books on Learning from the Great Depression, recommended by Christina Romer

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    The best books on Learning from the Great Depression - A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 by Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz

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    A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960
    by Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz

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    The best books on Learning from the Great Depression - Golden Fetters by Barry Eichengreen

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    Golden Fetters
    by Barry Eichengreen

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    The best books on Learning from the Great Depression - Essays on the Great Depression by Ben Bernanke

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    Essays on the Great Depression
    by Ben Bernanke

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    The best books on Learning from the Great Depression - America’s Greatest Depression by Lester Chandler

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    America’s Greatest Depression
    by Lester Chandler

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    The best books on Learning from the Great Depression - The End of One Big Deflation by Barry Wigmore & Peter Temin

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    The End of One Big Deflation
    by Barry Wigmore & Peter Temin

The best books on Learning from the Great Depression, recommended by Christina Romer

The former chair of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers says we’ve learned that terrible downturns can still occur, but also that the right policy response can make a huge difference to the outcome

    The best books on John Maynard Keynes, recommended by Robert Skidelsky

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    The best books on John Maynard Keynes - The Life of John Maynard Keynes by Roy Harrod

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    The Life of John Maynard Keynes
    by Roy Harrod

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    The best books on John Maynard Keynes - John Maynard Keynes by Paul Davidson

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    John Maynard Keynes
    by Paul Davidson

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    The best books on John Maynard Keynes - John Maynard Keynes by Hyman Minsky

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    John Maynard Keynes
    by Hyman Minsky

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    The best books on John Maynard Keynes - Keynes and The Market by Justyn Walsh

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    Keynes and The Market
    by Justyn Walsh

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    The best books on John Maynard Keynes - The Unexplored Keynes and Other Essays by Anand Chandavarkar

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    The Unexplored Keynes and Other Essays
    by Anand Chandavarkar

The best books on John Maynard Keynes, recommended by Robert Skidelsky

Keynes biographer Robert Skidelsky recommends the best books about one of the most important economists of all time, John Maynard Keynes.

    The best books on Financial Crashes, recommended by Charles Morris

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    The best books on Financial Crashes - Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises by Charles Kindleberger

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    Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises
    by Charles Kindleberger

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    The best books on Financial Crashes - This Time Is Different by Carmen Reinhart & Kenneth Rogoff

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    This Time Is Different
    by Carmen Reinhart & Kenneth Rogoff

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    The best books on Financial Crashes - John Maynard Keynes: 1883-1946: Economist, Philosopher, Statesman by Robert Skidelsky

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    John Maynard Keynes: 1883-1946: Economist, Philosopher, Statesman
    by Robert Skidelsky

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    The best books on Financial Crashes - A Demon of Our Own Design by Richard Bookstaber

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    A Demon of Our Own Design
    by Richard Bookstaber

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    The best books on Financial Crashes - Sources of the Self by Charles Taylor

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    Sources of the Self
    by Charles Taylor

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”

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