Right now finishing up Mercenaries and Their Masters which is a bit dated but a great analysis of 14th and 15th centuries army compositions, contracts, supply lines, and other logistics, particularly as it pertains to Italian city states. I worked in the oil industry for a few years and it's pretty surprising how much an army of 10,000 pipeliners resembles an medieval army, straight down to the raping and pillaging.

I set it down for a while but I've picked up Capitol in the Twenty-First Century again. About halfway through. It's a very technical analysis of wealth disparity over the past few centuries, mostly from tax records. It's interesting, but as dense as it is it's still missing a lot of data and it never really seems to question whether wealth inequality is an actual moral hazard, and the author is far more concerned with inherited wealth than market actors colluding with government to protect their interests (the latter of which I think is the real hazard). Maybe he gets there, but I doubt it.

Right now finishing up Mercenaries and Their Masters which is a bit dated but a great analysis of 14th and 15th centuries army compositions, contracts, supply lines, and other logistics, particularly as it pertains to Italian city states. I worked in the oil industry for a few years and it's pretty surprising how much an army of 10,000 pipeliners resembles an medieval army, straight down to the raping and pillaging.