What to Read After The Lever of Riches
Readers who loved The Lever of Riches by Joel Mokyr keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Lever of Riches is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Lever of Riches
Rise and Decline of Nations
Global Capitalism
The British industrial revolution in global perspective
A farewell to alms
Power and Plenty
The shock of the old
The wealth and poverty of nations
The have and the have-nots
Bourgeois dignity
Crisis and leviathan
When money dies
Does the Richness of the Few Benefit Us All?
Civilization and capitalism, 15th-18th century
The Rational Optimist
The ascent of money
The Guns of August
The Blind Watchmaker
Predictably Irrational
Guns, germs, and steel
The Selfish Gene
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
A short history of nearly everything
The Fountainhead