 | Gold: The Once and Future Money by Nathan Lewis
Buy new: $18.45 / Used from: $9.16 Currently the most important book of the 21st century, excellent in understanding how mismanaged monetary policy can destroy entire societies. The book really shines in the last half where the author clearly explains what caused each of the financial crises across the world in the last thirty years, from the Asian Meltdown to the break up of Yugoslavia to Japan's on going two decade stagnation.
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 | The Way the World Works, 20th Anniversary Edition (Gateway Contemporary) by Jude Wanniski
Buy new: $12.20 / Used from: $9.48 The most important book of the 20th century, it is the backbone of understanding economics and creating a world of high growth and zero inflation or deflation.
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 | The Seven Fat Years: And How to Do It Again by Robert L. Bartley
Buy used from: $1.91 An excellent in depth book of the boom years of the 1980's, how the tax policies created such high growth and illustrating the government mistakes of the 1970's and its repercussions in creating the Savings and Loan Crisis.
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 | The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy--If We Let It Happen by Arthur B. Laffer
Buy new: $17.82 / Used from: $1.61 Important on getting a thorough knowledge of different tax rates and how they can either strangle or create economic growth as seen through American history. Arthur Laffer, one of the writers, is the founder of the Laffer Curve, as described in The Way The World Works, The Seven Fat Years, and Gold: The Once and Future Money.
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