If you want some reading fun, just take a look at my blog Yelp is a mess. There is a long string of comments from knowledgeable angry people and a smattering of Yelpers trying to defend themselves.
Short summary: Yelp is a mess.
Joyce Appleby: Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination
Niall Ferguson: The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848
Jonathan Israel: The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806
Jerry Z. Muller: The Mind and the Market : Capitalism in Modern European Thought