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Brad Delong Recommended Books

Brad Delong has recommended 28 books. Browse the complete reading list with quotes and sources below.

Brad Delong is an economic historian who is a professor of economics.

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28 Books Recommended

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Dynasties

Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World's Great Family Businesses

by David S. Landes
"Very much worth reading." - Brad Delong (Source)

Bankers and Pashas

International Finance and Economic Imperialism in Egypt

by David S. Landes
"Very much worth reading." - Brad Delong (Source)

Revolution in Time

Clocks and the Making of the Modern World

by David S. Landes
"Very much worth reading." - Brad Delong (Source)

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations

Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor

by David S. Landes
"Very much worth reading." - Brad Delong (Source)

Also recommended by:

Charlie Munger, Jamie Dimon

The Unbound Prometheus

Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present

by David S. Landes
"Absolutely mind-blowing." - Brad Delong (Source)

The Second Sex

by Simone de Beauvoir
Brad Delong recommended this book in his website. (Source)

Also recommended by:

Laura R Walker

The Road to Serfdom

by F. A. Hayek
Brad Delong recommended this book in his website. (Source)

The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money

by John Maynard Keynes
Brad Delong recommended this book in his website. (Source)

Also recommended by:

Eric Weinstein, Warren Buffett

The Economic Consequences of Peace

by John Maynard Keynes
Brad Delong recommended this book in his website. (Source)

The End of Laissez-Faire

by John Maynard Keynes
Brad Delong recommended this book in his website. (Source)

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

by Thomas S. Kuhn
Brad Delong recommended this book in his website. (Source)

Plagues and Peoples

by William McNeill
Brad Delong recommended this book in his website. (Source)

Also recommended by:

Patrick Collison, Paul Graham

Homage to Catalonia

by George Orwell
Brad Delong recommended this book in his website. (Source)

The Road to Wigan Pier

by George Orwell
Brad Delong recommended this book in his website. (Source)

The Great Transformation

The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time

by Karl Polanyi
Brad Delong recommended this book in his website. (Source)

Also recommended by:

Satya Nadella, Noam Chomsky

Orientalism

by Edward W. Said
Brad Delong recommended this book in his website. (Source)

Also recommended by:

Christopher Hitchens

The Evolution of the International Economic Order

by William Arthur Lewis
Brad Delong recommended this book in his website. (Source)

Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World

by Barrington Moore
Brad Delong recommended this book in his website. (Source)

The Machiavellian Moment

Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition

by J.G.A. Pocock
Brad Delong recommended this book in his website. (Source)

Imagined Communities

Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

by Benedict Anderson
Brad Delong recommended this book in his website. (Source)

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

by Bernard Bailyn
Brad Delong recommended this book in his website. (Source)

The End of Ideology

On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties

by Daniel Bell
Brad Delong recommended this book in his website. (Source)

The Reproduction of Mothering

Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender

by Nancy J. Chodorow
Brad Delong recommended this book in his website. (Source)

The New Class

An Analysis Of The Communist System

by Milovan Djilas
Brad Delong recommended this book in his website. (Source)

The Interpretation of Cultures

by Clifford Geertz
Brad Delong recommended this book in his website. (Source)

Exit, Voice, and Loyalty

Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States

by Albert O. Hirschman
Brad Delong recommended this book in his website. (Source)

The Making of the English Working Class

by E. P. Thompson
Brad Delong recommended this book in his website. (Source)

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28 Brad Delong Recommended Books (2026)