This is a subjective Ranked version of Genre: Economics, History
- The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates by Peter T. Leeson
- Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson
- The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present by Kenneth Pomeranz, Steven C. Topik
- Wealth, Poverty and Politics by Thomas Sowell
- The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
- Capitalism: A Short History by Jürgen Kocka
- The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes
- The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time by Karl Polanyi