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Published during the 2020s Decade (2020 - 2029)
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Published during the 2020s Decade (2020 - 2029)
See also:
Best Popular Economics Books on Goodreads
By Year/Decade:
2026, 2025, 2024, 2023
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Top 25 Developed and Developing Countries: A Wealthy Nation Is Not Synonymous With a Developed One
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The Tragic Science: How Economists Cause Harm
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| 84 |
Trade Wars: Past and Present
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| 84 |
A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism
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3.94 avg rating — 113 ratings
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| 105 |
Costing the Earth: How to Fix Finance to Save the Planet
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3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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| 105 |
The Economics of the Stock Market
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3.28 avg rating — 18 ratings
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| 107 |
Zero Interest Policy and the New Abnormal: A Critique
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| 107 |
Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950
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4.45 avg rating — 33 ratings
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| 107 |
Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War
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4.25 avg rating — 771 ratings
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| 110 |
Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom: Lessons from 100,000 Years of Human History
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Johan Fourie (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 86 ratings
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| 110 |
Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: Economic Challenges, Embargo Issues and a New Global Economic Order
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| 112 |
The Fed Unbound: Central Banking in a Time of Crisis
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4.01 avg rating — 147 ratings
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| 113 |
The Long Shadow of Default: Britain’s Unpaid War Debts to the United States, 1917-2020
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4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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| 113 |
Thinking, Fast and Slow
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| 115 |
A World Without Work: Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond
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| 116 |
Delinquent: Inside America's Debt Machine
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3.91 avg rating — 47 ratings
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| 116 |
The Entrepreneurs: The Relentless Quest for Value
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Derek Lidow (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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| 116 |
The Wall and the Bridge: Fear and Opportunity in Disruption’s Wake
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3.59 avg rating — 29 ratings
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| 116 |
Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity
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4.21 avg rating — 1,056 ratings
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| 120 |
Lessons From the Least of These: The Woodson Principles
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| 120 |
Growth: A Reckoning
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| 122 |
The Myth of American Inequality
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4.29 avg rating — 219 ratings
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| 122 |
Can’t We Just Print More Money?: Economics in Ten Simple Questions
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4.05 avg rating — 1,543 ratings
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| 124 |
The Red Dream: The Chinese Communist Party and the Financial Deterioration of China
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3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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| 124 |
Social Justice Fallacies
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| 126 |
The Middle Out: The Rise of Progressive Economics and a Return to Shared Prosperity
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4.04 avg rating — 120 ratings
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| 126 |
Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World
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Edward Humes (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 361 ratings
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| 126 |
Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality
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3.81 avg rating — 389 ratings
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| 129 |
Spiderweb Capitalism: How Global Elites Exploit Frontier Markets
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4.05 avg rating — 66 ratings
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| 129 |
Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
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Zeke Faux (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 8,587 ratings
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| 129 |
The Wolves of K Street: The Secret History of How Big Money Took Over Big Government
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4.23 avg rating — 604 ratings
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| 132 |
Reviving Rationality: Saving Cost-Benefit Analysis for the Sake of the Environment and Our Health
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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| 132 |
The Hidden History of the American Dream: The Demise of the Middle Class―and How to Rescue Our Future (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series)
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4.44 avg rating — 48 ratings
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| 134 |
Empathy Economics: Janet Yellen’s Remarkable Rise to Power and Her Drive to Spread Prosperity to All
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Owen Ullmann (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 115 ratings
score: 86,
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| 134 |
My Journeys in Economic Theory
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3.42 avg rating — 45 ratings
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| 136 |
Just Keep Buying: Proven Ways to Save Money and Build Your Wealth
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Nick Maggiulli (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 5,340 ratings
score: 85,
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| 136 |
Climate Future: Averting and Adapting to Climate Change
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| 138 |
Hayek And The Evolution Of Capitalism
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3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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| 138 |
Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like?
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3.96 avg rating — 407 ratings
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| 140 |
Power And Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence
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4.22 avg rating — 7,253 ratings
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| 141 |
The Price of Time
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4.16 avg rating — 2,647 ratings
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| 142 |
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
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3.93 avg rating — 1,968 ratings
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| 143 |
Reset: Restoring Australia after the Great Crash of 2020
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3.65 avg rating — 93 ratings
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| 144 |
Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future
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Paul Krugman (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 2,504 ratings
score: 78,
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| 145 |
Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life
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3.64 avg rating — 45 ratings
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| 146 |
Extreme Economies: Survival, Failure, Future – Lessons from the World’s Limits
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4.20 avg rating — 1,126 ratings
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| 147 |
The New Economics: A Manifesto
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4.02 avg rating — 220 ratings
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| 148 |
The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
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3.86 avg rating — 850 ratings
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