page_title: Economic history
section_title: Financial history
hierarchical_section_title: Economic history / Notable works of economic history / Financial history
caption_attribution_description: English: The cover page of the book Capital in the Twenty-First Century
context_page_description: Economic history is the academic study of economies or economic events of the past. Research is conducted using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and the application of economic theory to historical situations and institutions. The field can encompass a wide variety of topics, including equality, finance, technology, labor, and business. It emphasizes historicizing the economy itself, analyzing it as a dynamic force and attempting to provide insights into the way it is structured and conceived.
  Using both quantitative data and qualitative sources, economic historians emphasize understanding the historical context in which major economic events take place. They often focus on the institutional dynamics of systems of production, labor, and capital, as well as the economy's impact on society, culture, and language. Scholars of the discipline may approach their analysis from the perspective of different schools of economic thought, such as mainstream economics, Marxian economics, the Chicago school of economics, and Keynesian economics.
context_section_description: Liaquat Ahamed, Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (2009)
  Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea (2013)
  Charles W. Calomiris and Stephen H. Haber, Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit (2014)
  Barry Eichengreen, Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System (2010)
  Barry Eichengreen, Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System (1996)
  Niall Ferguson, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (2008)
  Harold James, International Monetary Cooperation Since Bretton Woods (1996)
  Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff, This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly (2009)
  Benn Steil, The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order (2013)
  Adam Tooze, The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy (2006)
caption: Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013)
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