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by chewxy 4463 days ago
I liked deVries' The First Modern Economy - the first volume is great. It's not a pop-econ book, but rather a good hard look at the Dutch economy circa 1500s. A Concise Economic History of The World is also not a bad book, if a bit dry.

There are too some other cliometric books that I really liked but can't for the life of me recall it. There was another that was along the lines of Money and Market of All Times or something or like that, which I recommend for a quick skim through (not really worth a deep read - I'd treat it as the others already mentioned in this thread)