References
Sources cited across all eight parts, organized by section
Part I: The Nature of Money
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Ingham, G. (2004). The Nature of Money. Polity Press.
Ingham, G. (2020). Money: Ideology, History, Politics. Polity Press.
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Part II: Economic Systems
Chang, H.J. (2007). Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism. Bloomsbury.
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Part III: US Economic History
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Part IV: The Neoliberal Turn
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Part V: The Federal Reserve
Bernanke, B.S. (2015). The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath. W.W. Norton.
Bhutta, N. & Keys, B.J. (2016). Interest rates and the market for new cars. Journal of Finance, 71(2), 519-559.
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Part VI: Globalization
Autor, D., Dorn, D. & Hanson, G. (2013). The China syndrome: Local labor market effects of import competition in the United States. American Economic Review, 103(6), 2121-2168.
Autor, D., Dorn, D., Hanson, G. & Song, J. (2014). Trade adjustment: Worker-level evidence. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 129(4), 1799-1860.
Autor, D. (2019). Work of the past, work of the future. AEA Papers and Proceedings, 109, 1-32.
Faux, J. (2006). The Global Class War: How America's Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future -- and What It Will Take to Win It Back. Wiley.
Hufbauer, G. & Schott, J. (2005). NAFTA Revisited: Achievements and Challenges. Peterson Institute for International Economics.
Milanovic, B. (2016). Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization. Harvard University Press.
Pierce, J.R. & Schott, P.K. (2016). The surprisingly swift decline of US manufacturing employment. American Economic Review, 106(7), 1632-1662.
Rodrik, D. (2011). The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy. W.W. Norton.
Rodrik, D. (2018). What do trade agreements really do? Journal of Economic Perspectives, 32(2), 73-90.
Samuelson, P.A. (2004). Where Ricardo and Mill rebut and confirm arguments of mainstream economists supporting globalization. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 18(3), 135-146.
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Part VII: Inequality and Its Consequences
Chetty, R., Grusky, D., Hell, M., Hendren, N., Manduca, R. & Narang, J. (2017). The fading American dream: Trends in absolute income mobility since 1940. Science, 356(6336), 398-406.
Collins, C. (2021). The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions. Polity Press.
Crotty, J. (2005). The neoliberal paradox: The impact of destructive product market competition and impatient finance on nonfinancial corporations in the neoliberal era. Review of Radical Political Economics, 35(3).
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Piketty, T. (2014). Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Harvard University Press.
Piketty, T., Saez, E. & Zucman, G. (2018). Distributional national accounts: Methods and estimates for the United States. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 133(2), 553-609.
Reeves, R.V. (2017). Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust. Brookings Institution Press.
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Part VIII: Digital Money
Allen, H.J. (2022). DeFi: Shadow Banking 2.0? Florida Law Review, 75.
Auer, R., Cornelli, G. & Frost, J. (2020). Rise of the central bank digital currencies: Drivers, approaches and technologies. BIS Working Paper No. 880.
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Buterin, V. (2014). Ethereum: A next-generation smart contract and decentralized application platform. Ethereum Foundation.
Chohan, U.W. (2022). The Political Economy of Decentralized Finance. Palgrave Macmillan.
de Vries, A. (2018). Bitcoin's growing energy problem. Joule, 2(5), 801-805.
Eichengreen, B. (2011). Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System. Oxford University Press.
Liu, Z.Z. (2023). Sovereign Funds: How the Communist Party of China Finances Its Global Ambitions. Harvard University Press.
Mehrling, P. (2011). The New Lombard Street: How the Fed Became the Dealer of Last Resort. Princeton University Press.
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Pistor, K. (2019). The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality. Princeton University Press.
Prasad, E.S. (2014). The Dollar Trap: How the US Dollar Tightened Its Grip on Global Finance. Princeton University Press.
Prasad, E.S. (2021). The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance. Harvard University Press.
Vigna, P. & Casey, M.J. (2015). The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order. St. Martin's Press.
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