Books by James Kwak
“One of the really big issues, which is most forcefully raised by Simon Johnson in his book, 13 Bankers, is whether we are actually living in a kind of oligarchy of the sort we attribute to places like Russia or Kazakhstan” Read more...
Francis Fukuyama recommends the best books on the The Financial Crisis
Francis Fukuyama, Political Scientist
Interviews where books by James Kwak were recommended
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This Time Is Different
by Carmen Reinhart & Kenneth Rogoff -
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
by Michael Lewis -
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Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten The World Economy
by Raghuram G Rajan -
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13 Bankers
by James Kwak & Simon Johnson -
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The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Report
by FCIC
Francis Fukuyama recommends the best books on the The Financial Crisis
Francis Fukuyama recommends the best books on the The Financial Crisis
The author of “The End of History” says the financial crisis revealed a great deal about the nature of America’s political and economic system. The shame, he says, is that opportunities to change it are now being ignored.
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The Race between Education and Technology
by Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F Katz -
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Top Incomes in the Long Run of History
by Emmanuel Saez, Thomas Piketty & Tony Atkinson -
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Why Nations Fail
by Daron Acemoglu & James Robinson -
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Unequal Democracy
by Larry M Bartels -
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13 Bankers
by James Kwak & Simon Johnson
The best books on Inequality, recommended by Daron Acemoglu
The best books on Inequality, recommended by Daron Acemoglu
The US, the UK and many other countries around the globe have become far less equal over the past 30 years. It’s important we understand how and why this happened, and what it means for our societies, says Daron Acemoglu, a professor of economics at MIT. He recommends the best books to get a better understanding of inequality.
