My Favorite Readings
History of Monetary Policies
21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19, by Ben S. Bernanke, W. W. Norton & Company (May 17, 2022).
A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021, by Alan Blinder, Princeton University Press (October 11, 2022).
A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960, by Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz, Princeton University Press (1963).
The Fed Unbound: Central Banking in a Time of Crisis, by Lev Menand, Random House Audio (May 10, 2022).
The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy, by Christopher Leonard (Author), Simon & Schuster (January 11, 2022).
History of Countries
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire, Patrick N. Allitt, Emory University, The Great Courses.
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, by Peter Frankopan (Author), Vintage (March 7, 2017).
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, by Ezra F. Vogel (Author), Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press (October 14, 2013).
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, by Isabel Wilkerson (Author), Vintage; Reprint edition (October 4, 2011).
1587, A Year of No Significance (Revised Commemorated Edition) (Chinese Edition), by Huang Ren Yu (Author), Zhonghua Book Company (April 20, 2011).
Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man, by Jonathan D. Spence (Author), Penguin Books (September 20, 2007).
Fifteen Years of Wanli Emperor in Ming Dynasty, Ray Huang (Author), SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2002.
The Rise of Modern China, by Immanuel C.Y. Hsu (Author), Oxford University Press, 2000.
Other Topics
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic, by Sam Quinones (Author), Bloomsbury Press (April 5, 2016).
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World, by Tim Marshall (Author), Scribner, 2015.
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, by Louis Menand (Author), Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, by Carol S. Dweck (Author), Ballantine Books (December 26, 2007).
His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope, by Jon Meacham (Author), John Lewis, Random House (August 25, 2020).