Reading List - History of Capitalism

Compiling from various sources (Twitter, articles, etc):

  • Harry Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capital
  • Jonathan Levy, Freaks of Fortune
  • Scott Sandage, Born Losers
  • Mihm, A Nation of Counterfeiters
  • Michael Denning, The Cultural Front
  • Leigh Claire La Berge, Fictions of Finance
  • Bethany Moreton, To Serve God and Wal-Mart
  • Beckert, Empire of Cotton
  • Richard White, Railroaded
  • Capitalism Takes Command
  • Julia Ott, When Wall Street Met Main Street
  • Trachtenberg, Incorporation of America
  • Dana Frank, Purchasing Power
  • Meg Jacobs
  • Nan Enstad
  • Nathan Connolly
  • Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom (Chicago, 2002).
  • John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society (Mariner, 1998).
  • Friedrich Hayek, Individualism and Economic Order (Chicago, 1996).
  • Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation (Beacon, 2001).
  • Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (HarperCollins, 2008).
  • Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class (Dover, 1994).
  • Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Penguin, 2002)