Economic history of the Nixon-to-Reagan era?

Post date: 2020-08-07 10:51:00

I'm looking for a breezy, readable history of what happened to the economy between Nixon's rejection of the gold standard and the age of Reaganomics and Thatcherism, that includes its effects on the Global South.

I got stuck a couple of days ago reading a summary of the modern economy when the writer was talking about trade, debt and stagflation in the 70s-80s, because I realized, even though I've read a billion accounts of Adam Smith and David Ricardo, I'm really fuzzy on more modern economic history. So I'm looking for something on the readability level of The Worldly Philosophers--something for the nontechnical layperson that both tells the story and explains the concepts. If you've read David Graeber's Debt, then what I'm looking for is something like a book-length version of his final chapter. Does a book like this exist?

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