Ten of our favorite political economy books published in 2023.
1. “Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity,” by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson.
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2. “Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology,” by Anu Bradford
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3. “Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative,” by Jennifer Burns
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4. “The Problem of Twelve: When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything,” by John Coates
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5. “Lessons from the Covid War: An Investigative Report,” The Covid Crisis Group
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6. “The Economic Government of the World: 1933-2023,” by Martin Daunton
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7. “The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism,” by Sebastian Edwards
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8. “Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall,” by Zeke Faux
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9. “Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech,” by Brian Merchant
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10. “The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism,” by Martin Wolf
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Bonus: “The Big Fail: What the Pandemic Revealed About Who America Protects and Who It Leaves Behind,: by Joe Nocera and (Capitalisn’t host) Bethany McLean
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