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Economic History

Nobody can predict the future, but everyone can analyze the past and learn from it. These summaries tell the story of capitalism, currencies, markets, and much more.

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Summaries

8 Book

Undaunted
Overcoming Doubts and Doubters
Kara Goldin
HarperCollins Leadership, 2020
8 Book

The Domino’s Story
How the Innovative Pizza Giant Used Technology to Deliver a Customer Experience Revolution (The Business Storybook Series)
Marcia Layton Turner
HarperCollins Leadership, 2020
8 Book

The Spider Network
The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History
David Enrich
Custom House, 2017
9 Book

The Great Contraction, 1929-1933
Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz
Princeton UP, 2008
9 Article

What Can We Learn from Barnes & Noble's Surprising Turnaround?
Ted Gioia
Ted Gioia, 2023
8 Article

Winning Is Everything
Inside Nike’s Olympic comeback plan
Mark Wilson
Fast Company, 2024
8 Book

After Steve
How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul
Tripp Mickle
William Morrow, 2022
9 Book

The BBC
A People's History
David Hendy
Profile Books, 2022
9 Book

The Founders
The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley
Jimmy Soni
Simon & Schuster, 2022
9 Book

Hangry
A Startup Journey
Mike Evans
Legacy Lit, 2022
9 Book

Cuba
An American History
Ada Ferrer
Scribner, 2021
8 Book

Tokens
The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform
Rachel O'Dwyer
Verso Books, 2023