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Lombard Street(1873)Walter BagehotA ClassicRated 4/5· 2016Central BankingFamily Reading Challenge
Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market(1873)Walter BagehotExtraRated 5/5· 2021Central BankingFamily Reading Challenge
Beckoning Frontiers: Public and Personal Recollections(1952)Marriner EcclesExtraRated 5/5· 2022Central Banking
Monetary Reform for the World Economy(1965)Robert V. RoosaExtraRated 3/5· 2023Central BankingNYC Setting
The Arena of International Finance(1976)Charles A. CoombsExtraRated 5/5· 2023Central BankingNYC Setting
The International Monetary System, 1945-1981(1982)Robert SolomonExtraRated 3/5· 2023Central Banking
Dollar Politics: Exchange Rate Policymaking in the United States(1989)C. Randall Henning, I.M. DestlerExtraRated 5/5· 2023Central Banking
Liar's Poker(1989)Michael LewisHeard about on a podcastRated 5/5· 2022Central BankingFamily Reading ChallengeNYC Setting
The Money Doctor in the Andes: The Kemmerer Missions, 1923-1933(1989)Paul W. DrakeExtraRated 5/5· 2023Central Banking
Economist in an Uncertain World: Arthur F. Burns and the Federal Reserve, 1970-1978(1994)Wyatt C. WellsExtraRated 5/5· 2023Central BankingNYC Setting
The International Origins of the Federal Reserve System(1997)Lawrence J. BrozExtraRated 3/5· 2023Central BankingNYC Setting
The Exchange Stabilization Fund: Slush Money or War Chest?(1999)C. Randall HenningExtraRated 5/5· 2023Central Banking
Visa: The Power of an Idea(2001)Paul ChutkowExtraRated 3/5· 2024Central Banking
The Glitter of Gold: France, Bimetallism, and the Emergence of the International Gold Standard, 1848-1873(2003)Marc FlandreauExtraRated 1/5· 2022Central BankingClass Assignment
Alexander Hamilton(2004)Ron ChernowExtraRated 4/5· 2016Central BankingNYC Setting
The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience(2009)Kirstin DowneyExtraRated 3/5· 2021Central BankingNYC Setting
Too Big to Fail(2009)Andrew Ross SorkinExtraRated 5/5· 2023Central BankingNYC Setting
More Money Than God(2010)Sebastian MallabyExtraRated 3/5· 2019Central Banking
Electronic Value Exchange: Origins of the Visa Electronic Payments System(2011)David L. StearnsExtraRated 5/5· 2024Central Banking
State vs. Defense: The Battle to Define America's Empire(2011)Stephen GlainExtraRated 3/5· 2023Central Banking
Capital(2012)John LanchesterExtraRated 5/5· 2022Central Banking
Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence(2012)William L. SilberExtraRated 3/5· 2023Central BankingNYC Setting
Stress Test(2014)Tim GeithnerMemoirRated 4/5· 2015Central BankingFamily Reading ChallengeNYC Setting
America's Bank(2015)Roger LowensteinExtraRated 5/5· 2016Central Banking
The Courage to Act(2015)Ben BernankeThe Courage to ActRated 4/5· 2015Central BankingFamily Reading Challenge
Behold the Dreamers(2016)Imbolo MbueExtraRated 4/5· 2021Central BankingNYC Setting
Brother, Can You Spare a Billion?: The United States, the IMF, and the International Lender of Last Resort(2016)Daniel McDowellExtraRated 4/5· 2023Central Banking
The Only Game in Town(2016)Mohamed A. El-ErianExtraRated 3/5· 2017Central Banking
The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve(2016)Peter Conti-BrownExtraRated 5/5· 2016Central Banking
Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street(2017)Sheelah KolhatkarExtraRated 3/5· 2022Central BankingClass Assignment
The Color of Money(2017)Mehrsa BaradaranExtraRated 3/5· 2020Central Banking
The Myth of Independence: How Congress Governs the Federal Reserve(2017)Sarah Binder, Mark SpindelExtraRated 4/5· 2017Central Banking
The Paradox of Risk: Leaving the Monetary Policy Comfort Zone(2017)Angel J. UbideExtraRated 3/5· 2018Central Banking
The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives(2017)Lisa J. ServonExtraRated 3/5· 2022Central BankingClass Assignment
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World(2018)Adam ToozeExtraRated 5/5· 2018Central Banking
Financial Citizenship(2018)Riles AnneliseExtraRated 3/5· 2018Central Banking
Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises(2018)Ray DalioExtraRated 3/5· 2019Central Banking
The Fed and Lehman Brothers(2018)Laurence M. BallExtraRated 4/5· 2018Central BankingNYC Setting
The New Yorker (August 27, 2018)(2018)-Magazine Cover to CoverRated 3/5· 2018Central BankingFamily Reading ChallengeNYC Setting
Unelected Power(2018)Paul TuckerExtraRated 5/5· 2018Central Banking
Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian(2019)James GrantExtraRated 3/5· 2020Central Banking
Firefighting: The Financial Crisis and Its Lessons(2019)Tim Geithner, Ben Bernanke, Hank PaulsonExtraRated 3/5· 2019Central Banking
The Case for People’s Quantitative Easing(2019)Frances CoppolaExtraRated 3/5· 2019Central Banking
The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society(2019)Binyamin AppelbaumControversial SubjectRated 4/5· 2020Central BankingFamily Reading Challenge
A Promised Land(2020)Barack ObamaExtraRated 4/5· 2021Central Banking
Crafting Consensus: Why Central Bankers Change Their Speech & How Speech Changes the Economy(2020)Nicole BaergExtraRated 3/5· 2021Central Banking
Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction(2020)David EnrichExtraRated 4/5· 2022Central BankingClass Assignment
Money: The True Story of a Made-up Thing(2020)Jacob GoldsteinExtraRated 5/5· 2020Central Banking
The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes(2020)Zachary D. CarterFour Word TitleRated 3/5· 2021Central BankingFamily Reading Challenge
Freedom from the Market(2021)Mike KonczalExtraRated 3/5· 2021Central Banking
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy(2021)Adam ToozeExtraRated 1/5· 2021Central Banking
The Lehman Trilogy, a novel(2021)Stefano MassiniExtraRated 5/5· 2021Central BankingNYC Setting
21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19(2022)Ben BernankeExtraRated 4/5· 2022Central Banking
Empathy Economics: Janet Yellen’s Remarkable Rise to Power and Her Drive to Spread Prosperity to All(2022)Owen UllmannExtraRated 2/5· 2022Central BankingNYC Setting
Global Discord: Values and Power in a Fractured World Order(2022)Paul TuckerExtraRated 2/5· 2023Central Banking
The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All(2022)Mary ChildsExtraRated 5/5· 2023Central BankingClass Assignment
The Cashless Revolution: China's Reinvention of Money and the End of America's Domination of Finance and Technology(2022)Martin ChorzempaExtraRated 3/5· 2023Central BankingClass Assignment
The Fed Unbound: Central Banking in a Time of Crisis(2022)Lev MenandExtraRated 3/5· 2022Central Banking
The White Wall: How Big Finance Bankrupts Black America(2022)Emily FlitterExtraRated 2/5· 2023Central Banking
Trillion Dollar Triage: How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic - and Prevented Economic Disaster(2022)Nick TimiraosExtraRated 5/5· 2022Central Banking
Trillion Dollar Triage: How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic - and Prevented Economic Disaster(2022)Nick TimiraosExtraRated 5/5· 2022Central BankingClass Assignment
Trust(2022)Hernan DiazExtraRated 5/5· 2024Central BankingNYC Setting
Undermoney(2022)Jay NewmanExtraRated 2/5· 2023Central BankingNYC Setting
Yellen: The Trailblazing Economist Who Navigated an Era of Upheaval(2022)Jon HilsenrathExtraRated 3/5· 2022Central BankingNYC Setting
Limitless: The Federal Reserve Takes on a New Age of Crisis(2023)Jeanna SmialekExtraRated 3/5· 2023Central BankingNYC Setting
The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend(2023)Rob CopelandExtraRated 4/5· 2024Central Banking
The Rise of Central Banks: State Power in Financial Capitalism(2023)Leon WanslebenExtraRated 2/5· 2023Central Banking
Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy(2024)Carola BinderExtraRated 3/5· 2024Central Banking
The Banker’s Thumb: A History of Bank Supervision in America, 1789-1980(2024)Peter Conti-Brown, Sean VanattaExtraRated 3/5· 2024Central Banking