Economic History & the Great Depression
Individual topics classified under "Economic History & the Great Depression", ranked by how many awards the books carrying each one have won combined. Open a topic to see its most-awarded books.
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Poverty
6 books
11
wins
116
score
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City · Matthew Desmond4 wins · 50 score
- Angela's Ashes · Frank McCourt4 wins · 44 score
- Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America · Barbara Ehrenreich1 win · 8 score
- Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation · Jonathan Kozol1 win · 5 score
- Seeking Shelter: A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in America · Jeff Hobbs1 win · 5 score
- 2
Great Depression
14 books
10
wins
128
score
- Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World · Liaquat Ahamed2 wins · 24 score
- Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits · Linda Gordon2 wins · 17 score
- Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 · David M. Kennedy1 win · 15 score
- The People's Choice · Herbert Agar1 win · 12 score
- The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl · Timothy Egan1 win · 12 score
- 3
Poverty and inequality
5 books
5
wins
73
score
- Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity · Katherine Boo3 wins · 40 score
- There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America · Brian Goldstone2 wins · 24 score
- Behind Closed Doors · Polly Curtis0 wins · 3 score
- Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country · William Finnegan0 wins · 3 score
- Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth Century London · Oskar Jensen0 wins · 3 score
- 4
Homelessness
4 books
4
wins
45
score
- There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America · Brian Goldstone2 wins · 24 score
- The Memory Palace · Mira Bartók1 win · 12 score
- Seeking Shelter: A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in America · Jeff Hobbs1 win · 5 score
- Stuart: A Life Backwards · Alexander Masters0 wins · 4 score
- 5
Economic history
6 books
3
wins
42
score
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century · Thomas Piketty1 win · 15 score
- The Ancient Economy · Moses Finley1 win · 8 score
- The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy · Adam Tooze1 win · 8 score
- The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force and Society Since A.D. 1000 · William H. McNeill0 wins · 4 score
- The Wealth and Poverty of Nations · David Landes0 wins · 4 score
- 6
Industrialization
3 books
3
wins
31
score
- The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business · Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.2 wins · 20 score
- Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826–1860 · Thomas Dublin1 win · 8 score
- Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World · Joshua B. Freeman0 wins · 3 score
- 7
Economic inequality
8 books
2
wins
35
score
- Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy · Raghuram G. Rajan1 win · 8 score
- The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of Mass Unemployment · Martin Ford1 win · 8 score
- The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century · Walter Scheidel0 wins · 6 score
- Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business · Rana Foroohar0 wins · 3 score
- The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America · Andrew W. Kahrl0 wins · 3 score
- 8
2008 financial crisis
5 books
2
wins
32
score
- The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine · Michael Lewis1 win · 11 score
- The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan · Sebastian Mallaby1 win · 8 score
- Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves · Andrew Ross Sorkin0 wins · 7 score
- All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis · Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera0 wins · 3 score
- In Fed We Trust · David Wessel0 wins · 3 score
- 9
Global economic history
3 books
2
wins
28
score
- 10
Behavioral economics
5 books
2
wins
25
score
- Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty · Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo1 win · 8 score
- Thinking, Fast and Slow · Daniel Kahneman1 win · 8 score
- Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought · Andrew W. Lo0 wins · 3 score
- Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism · George Akerlof and Robert Shiller0 wins · 3 score
- Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics · Richard Thaler0 wins · 3 score
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Economic development
4 books
2
wins
23
score
- A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise: Merchants and Economic Development in Revolutionary Philadelphia · Thomas Doerflinger1 win · 8 score
- Cities and the Wealth of Nations · Jane Jacobs1 win · 8 score
- The Wealth and Poverty of Nations · David Landes0 wins · 4 score
- The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age · James Crabtree0 wins · 3 score
- 12
Wealth inequality
5 books
1
win
29
score
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century · Thomas Piketty1 win · 15 score
- Riches, Class and Power Before the Civil War · Edward Pessen0 wins · 4 score
- The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath · Kevin Phillips0 wins · 4 score
- The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap · Matt Taibbi0 wins · 3 score
- Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich · Kevin Phillips0 wins · 3 score
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Corporate fraud
4 books
1
win
19
score
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup · John Carreyrou1 win · 8 score
- Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell (about Robert Maxwell) · John Preston0 wins · 4 score
- Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street · David McClintock0 wins · 4 score
- Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story · Kurt Eichenwald0 wins · 3 score
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Jim Crow South
3 books
1
win
19
score
- 15
Federal Reserve
4 books
1
win
17
score
- 16
John Maynard Keynes
3 books
1
win
17
score
- John Maynard Keynes: The Economist as Saviour, 1920–1937 · Robert Skidelsky1 win · 8 score
- The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes · Zachary D. Carter0 wins · 5 score
- John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain, 1937–1946 (about John Maynard Keynes) · Robert Skidelsky0 wins · 4 score
- 17
Industrial capitalism
3 books
1
win
16
score
- 18
Labor movement
3 books
1
win
16
score
- 19
Monetary policy
3 books
1
win
14
score
- 20
Corporate power
5 books
0
wins
17
score
- Global Reach: The Power of the Multinational Corporations · Richard Barnet and Ronald E. Muller0 wins · 4 score
- The New Industrial State · John Kenneth Galbraith0 wins · 4 score
- Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America · Christopher Leonard0 wins · 3 score
- The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company · William Dalrymple0 wins · 3 score
- The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works—and How It's Transforming the American Economy · Charles Fishman0 wins · 3 score
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Financial crisis
4 books
0
wins
13
score
- How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities · John Cassidy0 wins · 4 score
- Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism · George Akerlof and Robert Shiller0 wins · 3 score
- Making it Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the Men Who Blew Up the British Economy · Iain Martin0 wins · 3 score
- Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence · William L. Silber0 wins · 3 score
- 22
Economic growth
3 books
0
wins
10
score
- 23
Global economy
3 books
0
wins
9
score
- 24
Hedge funds
3 books
0
wins
9
score
- More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite · Sebastian Mallaby0 wins · 3 score
- The Billionaire's Apprentice: The Rise of The Indian-American Elite and The Fall of The Galleon Hedge Fund · Anita Raghavan0 wins · 3 score
- The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution · Gregory Zuckerman0 wins · 3 score
Recent Standout Topics (2020+)
- 1Poverty and inequality2 wins
Where This Data Comes From
- Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction2012–2026
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Award1936–2026
- Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction1999–2026
- Bancroft Prize1948–2026
- Cundill History Prize2008–2026
- Financial Times and Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year Award2005–2026
- J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize1999–2026
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography1919–2025
- Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction2014–2026
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography1981–2025