50 Great Articles and Essays about Money and Economics
Interesting articles and essays about money and economics to read onlineWhat Is Money?
To Have is To Owe by David Graeber
A short history of moneyEconomics
GDP by Oliver Kim
We really don’t know how good we have itNothing Grows Forever by Clive Thompson
How can we make the global economy work for 7 billion humans? Stop growing it.Why We Should Give Free Money to Everyone by Rutger Bregman
The most efficient way to spend money on homeless people might be to give it to themThe Invisible Economy by Bill Davidow
Our techniques for measuring economic performance are obsolete, obscuring a complete picture of how we're faringThe Austerity Delusion by Paul Krugman
The case for cuts was a lieBuilding a Green Economy by Paul Krugman
If you listen to climate scientists -- and despite the relentless campaign to discredit their work, you should -- it is long past time to do something about emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasesLand Ownership Makes No Sense by Jehan Azad and Uri Bram
The earth is a shared inheritance, and profiting off a common resource is just wrongOf Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit
by David Graeber
A secret question hovers over us, a sense of disappointment, a broken promise we were given as children about what our adult world was supposed to be like...
The Economist Who Would Fix the American Dream by Gareth Cook
No one has done more to dispel the myth of social mobility than Raj Chetty. But he has a plan to make equality of opportunity a reality...The Tragedy of the European Union
by George Soros
The euro countries did not realize that by giving up the right to print their own money they exposed themselves to the risk of default.
The Psychology of Money
Money ? Happiness. QED. by Bill McKibben
The formula for human well-being used to be simple: Make money, get happy. So why is the old axiom suddenly turning on us?The Real Truth About Money by Gregg Easterbrook
No matter how you chart the trends in earning and spending, everything is up, up, up. But if you made a chart of American happiness since the end of World War II, the lines would be as flat as a marble tabletopYour Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed by David Cain
Companies seek to encourage the public's habit of casual or non-essential spending whenever they canThe Psychology of Inequality by Elizabeth Kolbert
Researchers find that much of the damage done by being poor comes from feeling poor100 more psychology articles
Markets and Investment
What Goes Up by Andrew Lipstein
Does the rise of index funds spell catastrophe?Slash and Burn by Alex Blasdel
Is private equity out of control?The Man Who Moves Markets by Evan Hughes
Carson Block uses covert techniques to uncover fraud for profit. Now he’s under investigation himself. Is he the hero of Wall Street, or the villain?Diamonds Are Bullshit by Rohin Dhar
Let's agree that diamonds are bullshit and reject their role in the marriage process.AI
This Is How the AI Bubble Bursts by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Stephen Henriques
The tangle of AI deals among tech giants could be signs of dangerous overinvestment in the developing technologyThe Future Is Too Easy by David Roth
There is something unstable at the most basic level about any space with too much capitalism happening in itAI Will Not Make You Rich by Jerry Neumann
The disruption is real. It's also predictable20 more articles about AI
The Online Economy
Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter by Chris Anderson
Why it's time to manage for abundance, not scarcityThe Long Tail by Chris Anderson
Forget squeezing millions from a few megahits at the top of the charts. The future of entertainment is in the millions of niche markets at the shallow end of the bitstreamThe Attention Economy by Tom Chatfield
It costs nothing to click, respond and retweet. But what price do we pay in our relationships and our peace of mind?You Are the Product by John Lanchester
No human enterprise, no new technology or utility or service, has ever been adopted so widely so quickly...The Shut-In Economy by Lauren Smiley
In the new world of on-demand everything, you’re either pampered, isolated royalty — or you’re a 21st century servant75 more articles about the internet
Crypto
The Crypto Story by Matt Levine
Where it came from, what it all means and why it still mattersBitcoin Is Ridiculous. Blockchain Is Dangerous by Paul Ford
The true believers won’t stop until they’ve remade the world. Some of it will be thrilling. Some of it will keep us up at nightWhen Bitcoin Grows Up by John Lanchester
A decentralised, anonymous, self-verifying and completely reliable register of this sort is the biggest potential change to the money system since the MediciCash
Imagining a Cashless World by Nathan Heller
Sweden shows us what life without paper currency might be likeAmerica Must Free Itself from the Tyranny of the Penny by Caity Weaver
The penny may seem like a harmless coin. But few things symbolize our national dysfunction more than the inability to stop minting this worthless currencyMisc.
What We Can Learn from a Nuclear Reactor by Tim Harford
The connection between banks and nuclear reactors is not obvious to most bankersFraudpocalypse by John Lanchester
People talk about capitalism as if it were just one thing, but the truth is that we live in a global system of capitalisms...See also...
75 Great Articles about Politics
A collection of the best political reporting and journalism
Super-rich People
Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1% by Joseph E. Stiglitz
In our own democracy, 1 percent of the people take nearly a quarter of the nation's income, an inequality even the wealthy will come to regretBillionaires Are Not Like Us by Alex Morris
They have fantasies of going to Mars, transhumanism, and superhuman AI. How the heck does someone get this way? And what does it mean for the rest of us?A Tale of Two Londons by Nicholas Shaxson
On the world's most expensive residential building and the new global super-wealthy.The Rich Have Feelings, Too by Tom Wolfe
"I feel like boffing some bimbos in the Caribbean. Anybody like to come along?"The Rich vs the Very, Very Rich by Samanth Subramanian
When a Chinese billionaire bought one of Britain’s most prestigious golf clubs in 2015, dentists and estate agents were confronted with the unsentimental force of globalised capitalThe Haves and the Have-Yachts by Evan Osnos
Luxury ships attract outrage and political scrutiny. The ultra-rich are buying them in record numbers.Rich People
Why it Pays to be Privileged by Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison
Within Britain’s elite occupations, the advantages of class are still mistaken for talentPeople With Parents With Money by Various Authors
14 adults come clean about the down payments, allowances, and tuition payments that make their New York lives feasible.The Fake Poor Bride by Xochitl Gonzalez
Confessions of a wedding plannerSurvival of the Richest by Douglas Rushkoff
The wealthy are plotting to leave us behindPrivate Schools Have Become Truly Obscene by Caitlin Flanagan
Elite schools breed entitlement, entrench inequality—and then pretend to be engines of social change.The Airport-Lounge Wars by Zach Helfand
When you’re waiting for a flight, what’s the difference between out there and in here?Poor People
The Invisible Man by Patrick Fealey
A firsthand account of homelessness in America.FML by Michael Hobbes
Why millennials are facing the scariest financial future of any generation since the Great Depression.If Every Day Is a Rainy Day, What Am I Saving For? by Samantha Irby
If Every Day Is a Rainy Day, What Am I Saving For?Why Does It Feel Like Everyone Has More Money Than You? by Jen Doll
Financial help from parents comes in many forms, and it’s the basis of so many success stories. So why do millennials act like it doesn't exist? Jen Doll examines the myth—and tyranny—of the "self-made" success story.The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans by Neal Gabler
Nearly half of Americans would have trouble finding $400 to pay for an emergency. I’m one of them...Poverty isn’t a Lack of Character. It’s a Lack of Cash by Rutger Bregman
Our efforts to fight poverty are often based on the misconception that poor people must pull themselves up out of the mire. But the relentless struggle to make ends meet has serious effects on the brain.Why the Poor Pay More by DeNeen L. Brown
The poorer you are, the more things cost. More in money, time, hassle, exhaustion, menace.Is It a Crime to Be Poor? by Barbara Ehrenreich
In defiance of all reason and compassion, the criminalization of poverty has actually been intensifying as the recession generates ever more povertyDebt
Bad Education by Malcolm Harris
Last August, student loans surpassed credit cards as the nation's single largest source of debt, edging ever closer to $1 trillionThe Road to Auto Debt by Julie Livingston and Andrew Ross
Our cars, no matter how much we cherish them, hold us in social and economic custodyBeen Down So Long It Looks Like Debt to Me by M.H. Miller
An American family’s struggle for student loan redemptionWhat Writing Programs Ought To Teach You When They Teach You About Writing by Jim Behrle
Students pay more to go to college and graduate school and get less from their buck than ever before. And now you can’t even pay it back!The Financial Crisis
The End by Michael Lewis
The era that defined Wall Street is finally, officially over. What went wrong?The Great American Bubble Machine by Matt Taibbi
"The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money."Betting on the Blind Side by Michael Lewis
How one investor spotted the huge bubble in the subprime-mortgage bond market, in 2004, and created a way to bet against it.Wall Street on the Tundra by Michael Lewis
What led a tiny fishing nation, population 300,000, to decide, around 2003, to re-invent itself as a global financial power?Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds by Michael Lewis
How Greece ran up a $1.2 trillion debt (roughly a quarter-million dollars for each working adult).When Irish Eyes Are Crying by Michael Lewis
The Irish boom, bust and how the country's government and banks conspired to screw its people.Wall Street Smarts by Calvin Trillin
The financial system nearly collapsed because smart guys had started working on Wall Street.Books
The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
How economics rules our livesDebt by David Graeber
If you don't know what money is, what do you know? Get informed!The Big Short by Michael Lewis
Dissecting the financial crisis through the eyes of the people who saw it comingThe Divide by Matt Taibbi
Injustice in the age of the wealth gapGriftopia by Matt Taibbi
"A Story of Bankers, Politicians, and the Most Audacious Power Grab in American History."
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