The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger (2006)
Business / History
Author(s): Marc Levinson
My favorite book about globalization. It explains with great detail how the container helped reshape the world economy making it viable to transport products across the world and change the supply chain as we know it.
The Taking of Getty Oil (1987)
Business History
Author(s): Steve Coll
The battle to take over Getty Oil and everyone involved including the children of Jean Paul Getty Jr, the board of the company, Pennzoil, Texaco, many banks, and a long trial.
The Man Who Knew (2016)
Biography
Author(s): Sebastian Mallaby
One of the best books about modern central bank policy history through the eyes of Alan Greenspan. It also features the policies of the Fed chairmen before him, his entire tenure and how he also affected white house policy, not only in financial subjects.
The Great Leveler (2017)
Economics / History
Author(s): Walter Scheidel
Very dense book but in my opinion the best about economic inequality because it uses no conjectures or hypotheses, just a look at history and facts of how destruction has been the strongest force to reduce economic inequality in a drastic way.
Lucifer's Banker (2016)
Finance / History
Author(s): Bradley Birkenfeld
Autobiographical book that describes the importance of the swiss bank secrecy and how the author after working in the industry for years became a whistleblower and ended it.
The Spider Network (2017)
Finance / History
Author(s): David Enrich
The creation of LIBOR, how it became the most important interest rate in the world, and the rigging by traders in the worldwide largest banks.
Hack Attack (2014)
Journalism
Author(s): Nick Davies
The full story of the scandal where Rupert Murdoch's News Of The World was found guilty of listening to thousands of private voicemails including movie starts, the royalty and all the effort to cover it up.
