David A. Lee

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Anthropology

Cross Cultural Summary

Foundations of Human Sociality

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

Who We Are and How We Got Here

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713 books

Books I Own

The Good Earth

Trying to Find Chinatown: The Selected Plays of David Henry Hwang

Fish in Exile

Brokeback Mountain

Atlas Shrugged

Marriage of a Thousand Lies

Land of Love and Drowning

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5 books

Books On Subjects In My Head 24 7

Rethinking Money: How New Currencies Turn Scarcity into Prosperity

The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism

Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq

Making a World after Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives

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7 books

Economics Central Banking

The Myth of Independence: How Congress Governs the Federal Reserve

Secrets of the temple

The Fed: The Inside Story How World's Most Powerful Financial Institution Drives Markets

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Origins of the Federal Reserve System

The Fed Unbound: Central Banking in a Time of Crisis

Jumping the Abyss: Marriner S. Eccles and the New Deal, 1933–1940

21st Century Monetary Policy

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6 books

Economics Commodities

Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism

The War Below

The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Price Wars: How the Commodities Markets Made Our Chaotic World

Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

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251 books

Economics General

The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

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Doughnut Economics

Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason

The Economics of Inequality

Basic Economics : A Citizen's Guide to the Economy

The Entrepreneurial State

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228 books

Economics History

Fruits Basket, Vol. 13

City of Ambition: FDR, LaGuardia, and the Making of Modern New York

Rightful heritage : Franklin D. Roosevelt and the land of America

Nature's New Deal

The Second Bill of Rights: FDR's Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More Than Ever

Furious Improvisation: How the Wpa and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art Out of Desperate Times

Fear Itself

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3 books

Economics History Business

The AIG Story

Cargill: Trading the World's Grain

Cargill: Going Global

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13 books

Economics International Trade

United States Trade Policy: A Work in Progress

The Puzzle of Latin American Economic Development

Economic Interdependence and War

So Little Time #12

Transition Economies

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Super Imperialism. The Economic Strategy of American Empire. Third Edition

Global Fracture: The New International Economic Order

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4 books

Economics Labor

In Aid of the Unemployed

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

Monopsony in motion

The Case for a Job Guarantee

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27 books

Economics Money And Finance

From Stress to Growth: Strengthening Asia's Financial Systems in a Post-Crisis World

Money: 5,000 Years of Debt and Power

Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself

Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street

The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One

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Making Money

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4 books

Economics Monopoly

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Antitrust Paradox

Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power

Finance Capital: A Study in the Latest Phase of Capitalist Development

The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age

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2 books

Economics National China

Demystifying the Chinese Economy

How China Escaped Shock Therapy

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5 books

Economics National Korea

Public Finance During the Korean Modernization Process

From Miracle to Maturity: The Growth of the Korean Economy

Urbanization and Urban Problems

Financial Development in Korea, 1945–1978

The Economic and Social Modernization of the Republic of Korea

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11 books

Economics National United States

The American Political Economy: Politics, Markets, and Power

A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021

A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960

Founding Finance: How Debt, Speculation, Foreclosures, Protests, and Crackdowns Made Us a Nation

America's Protectionist Takeoff 1815-1914

A Crisis Wasted

The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire

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7 books

Economics Race

The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power

Rethinking Racial Capitalism: Questions of Reproduction and Survival

The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

Toxic Inequality: How America's Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future

The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality

Bankers and empire

Racial Taxation: Schools, Segregation, and Taxpayer Citizenship, 1869–1973

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12 books

Economics Textbook

Economics

Principles of Macroeconomics, 6th Edition

Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics

Principles of Microeconomics

Microeconomic Analysis

Microeconomics

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8 books

Economics Textbook Econometrics

Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach - Standalone Book Sixth Edition

Mastering 'Metrics: The Path from Cause to Effect

Causal Inference: The Mixtape

The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality

Financial Econometrics

The Cult of Statistical Significance

Causal Inference for Statistics, Social, and Biomedical Sciences

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6 books

Economics Textbook Finance

Introduction to Derivatives and Risk Management

Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets: A Comprehensive Guide to Trading Methods and Applications

Principles of Financial Engineering

Monetary Policy Operations and the Financial System

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Structured Finance

Principles of Corporate Finance, Concise Edition

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28 books

Economics Theory

The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money

The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers

Collected Works of Michal Kalecki: Volume 1: Capitalism: Business Cycles and Full Employment

Collected Works of Michal Kalecki: Volume VII: Studies in Applied Economics 1940-1967; Miscellanea

The Cambridge Companion to Keynes

The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes

In the Long Run We Are All Dead: Keynesianism, Political Economy, and Revolution

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2 books

Geography

Landscapes of fear

Prisoners of Geography

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117 books

History American

Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad

The Second Founding

Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression

A People's History of the United States

The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era

The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses

Fighting Chance: The Struggle over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America

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69 books

History Biography

Attlee: A Life in Politics

Means of Ascent

A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety

Bismarck: A Life

Thread Of The Silkworm

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John Maynard Keynes

Keynes

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8 books

History Britain

Left for Dead?: The Strange Death and Rebirth of Labour Britain

1688: The First Modern Revolution

A Very English Scandal

British Imperialism in Ireland

British Imperialism

Roman Roads in Britain

Born to Rule

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7 books

History Cambodia

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Cambodia, 1975-1982

My War With The CIA: The Memoirs Of Prince Norodom Sihanouk

Pol Pot

The Years of Zero: Coming of Age Under the Khmer Rouge

Cambodia's Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land

Hun Sen’s Cambodia

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Prisoners of Class

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