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Start Here
Readable entry points for people who were taught how to earn dollars, but not what dollars are.
The hard money bookshelf
The Broken Ruler
If the ruler is shrinking, every money chart is lying.
The Psychology of Money
The Ascent of Money
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Basic Economics
In This Economy?
02
Austrian Roots
Rothbard and Mises for the monetary theory underneath the whole shelf.
What Has Government Done to Our Money?
Man, Economy, and State
The Theory of Money and Credit
Human Action
03
Hard Money
Gold, Bitcoin, fiat failure, and the broken dollar ruler.
Broken Money
Lyn Alden
The Bitcoin Standard
Saifedean Ammous
The Fiat Standard
Saifedean Ammous
Softwar
Jason P. Lowery
The Price of Tomorrow
Jeff Booth
The Bullish Case for Bitcoin
Vijay Boyapati
The Little Book of Bitcoin
Anthony Scaramucci
The Big Print
Lawrence Lepard
The New Case for Gold
James Rickards
04
The Fed and the Machine
Central banking, easy money, and the institutional machinery behind the price level.
The Lords of Easy Money
The Creature from Jekyll Island
21st Century Monetary Policy
A Monetary History of the United States
Equity Stripped
05
Crashes and Manias
For readers who want the pattern before the headline.
1929
Andrew Ross Sorkin
Manias, Panics, and Crashes
Kindleberger and Aliber
A Short History of Financial Euphoria
John Kenneth Galbraith
The Big Short
Michael Lewis
Too Big to Fail
Andrew Ross Sorkin
Devil Take the Hindmost
Edward Chancellor
This Time Is Different
Reinhart and Rogoff
The Fourth Turning
Strauss and Howe
Going Infinite
Michael Lewis