Economic History
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Violent Saviors: The West’s Conquest of the Rest
$34.00 Add to cartA celebrated economist argues that economic development is not really development unless everyone has the right to consent to their own progress
For centuries, the developed Western world has exploit- Author: Easterly, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1541675754
- Language: English
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The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind
$20.00 Add to cartThe surprising story of how declining marriage rates are driving many of the country’s biggest economic problems.
In The Two-Parent Privilege, Melissa S. Kearney makes a provocative, data-driven case- Author: Kearney, Melissa S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 022684160X
- Language: English
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The Land Trap: A New History of the World’s Oldest Asset
$32.00 Add to cartHow the world’s oldest asset secretly shapes our modern economy
In The Land Trap, Mike Bird–The Economist‘s Wall Street editor–pulls back the curtain on how this ancient asset exerts outsize influen- Author: Bird, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0593719719
- Language: English
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Capitalism: A Global History
$49.00 Add to cartA landmark event years in the making, a brilliant global narrative that unravels the defining story of the past thousand years of human history
No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisive- Author: Beckert, Sven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1344
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0735220832
- Language: English
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How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations
$35.00 Add to cartHow 1,000 years of global history show why technological and economic progress is often followed by stagnation and even collapse
In How Progress Ends, Carl Benedikt Frey challenges the conventional be- Author: Frey, Carl Benedikt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0691233071
- Language: English
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The World Under Capitalism: Observations on Economics, Politics, History, and Culture
$35.00 Add to cartBranko Milanovic is best known as one of the world’s leading experts on global inequality. But he is also an unusually wide-ranging and penetrating commentator on subjects across economics and beyond,… [more below]
- Author: Milanovic, Branko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1509567763
- Language: English
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The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity
$30.00 Add to cartTim Wu explores how today’s dominant platforms manipulate attention, extract wealth, and deepen inequality–urging us to recognize their influence and reclaim control to create a balanced economy that… [more below]
- Author: Wu, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0593321243
- Language: English
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The History of Money: A Story of Humanity, with a Foreword by Michael Lewis
$32.99 Add to cartIn this fresh, eye-opening global history, economist David McWilliams charts the relationship between humans and money–from clay tablets in Mesopotamia to cryptocurrency in Silicon Valley.
The story- Author: McWilliams, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1250408180
- Language: English
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The Economic Consequences of the Peace
$18.00 Add to cartOne of the most important economic documents of the 20th century
John Maynard Keynes, at the time a rising young economist, abruptly resigned his position as adviser to the British delegation negotiat- Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin
- Author: Keynes, John Maynard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0140188053
- Language: English
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Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth, and Power
$35.00 Add to cartIn a book that “sets a new standard in economic history” (Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist), acclaimed economic historian Victoria Bateman tells the story of how women made the world ri… [more below]
- Author: Bateman, Victoria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 154160606X
- Language: English
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Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy
$35.00 Read moreONE OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL’S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2024
How inflation and deflation fears shape American democracy.
Many foundational moments in American economic history–the establishment of paper mon
- Author: Binder, Carola
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0226833097
- Language: English
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All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis
$19.00 Read moreHailed as “the best business book of 2010” (Huffington Post), this New York Times bestseller about the 2008 financial crisis brings the devastation of the Great Recession to life.
As soon as the fina- Author: McLean, Bethany
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 30 2011
- ISBN10: 159184438X
- Language: English
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Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom /]Cby Grace Blakeley
$19.99 Add to cartIn the vein of The Shock Doctrine and Evil Geniuses, this timely and “galvanizing” (Naomi Klein, New York Times bestselling author) manifesto illustrates how corporate and political power brokers have… [more below]
- Author: Blakeley, Grace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1982180862
- Language: English
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In Defense of Public Debt
$36.99 Add to cartA dive into the origins, management, and uses and misuses of sovereign debt through the ages.
Public debts have exploded to levels unprecedented in modern history as governments responded to the Covid-… [more below]- Author: Eichengreen, Barry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 08 2021
- ISBN10: 019757789X
- Language: English
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A Little History of Economics
$15.00 Add to cartAn accessible account of the history of economics through the ideas of great thinkers
Economics explains the world. For example, the fact that you’re holding this book in your hands puts you in a spe- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Kishtainy, Niall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0300283245
- Language: English
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As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West
$22.95 Add to cart“In this masterly book, [Alfani] offers an insightful long-run perspective and fascinating lessons for the future. A must-read!”–Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century
A sweepi- Author: Alfani, Guido
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 069122711X
- Language: English
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Covid Wars: America’s Struggle Over Public Health and Personal Freedom
$18.50 Add to cartA sweeping, deeply researched chronicle of the COVID-19 pandemic, weaving together science, politics, and personal freedoms.
Ronald Gruner, with the precision of a historian and the curiosity of a citi
- Author: Gruner, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 394
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1737823160
- Language: English
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The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
$22.50 Add to cartA Financial Times Best Book of the Year
“A must-read, with key lessons for the future.”–Thomas Piketty A groundbreaking examination of austerity’s dark intellectual origins. For more than a centu- Author: Mattei, Clara E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0226836746
- Language: English
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Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI
$36.00 Add to cartA Financial Times Most Anticipated Book of 2025
A sweeping, dramatic history of capitalism as seen through the eyes of its fiercest critics.
At a time when artificial intelligence, climate change, and- Author: Cassidy, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 374601089
- Language: English
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Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United States
$27.00 Add to cartA leading economic historian traces the evolution of American capitalism from the colonial era to the present–and argues that we’ve reached a turning point that will define the era ahead.
“A monument- Author: Levy, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 944
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0812985184
- Language: English
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