Economic History
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The Economic Government of the World: 1933-2023
$30.00 Read moreForeign Affairs Best Books of the Year (2023)
An epic history of the people and institutions that have built the global economy since the Great Depression. In this vivid landmark history, the distingu- Author: Daunton, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1024
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 125033828X
- Language: English
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Uncertainty and Enterprise: Venturing Beyond the Known
$37.99 Add to cart- Author: Bhid?, Amar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: December 06 2024
- ISBN10: 197688357
- Language: English
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Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream
$25.00 Add to cartThe clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American Dream, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist behind The New York Times’s “The Morning” newsletter.… [more below]
- Author: Leonhardt, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0812983335
- Language: English
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Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
$24.00 Add to cartHow can one European capital be responsible for most of the West’s intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century?
Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architect- Author: Cockett, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0300279361
- Language: English
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Founding Finance: How Debt, Speculation, Foreclosures, Protests, and Crackdowns Made Us a Nation
$15.95 Read moreRecent movements such as the Tea Party and anti-tax “constitutional conservatism” lay claim to the finance and taxation ideas of America’s founders, but how much do we really know about the dramatic c
- Series: Discovering America
- Author: Hogeland, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: February 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0292757530
- Language: English
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Pre-Industrial Societies: Anatomy of the Pre-Modern World
$25.00 Read moreEminent historian Patricia Crone defines the common features of a wide range of pre-industrial societies, from locations as seemingly disparate as the Mongol Empire and pre-Columbian America, to cultu… [more below]
- Author: Crone, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 11 2015
- ISBN10: 1780747411
- Language: English
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Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
$18.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2021 Lionel Gelber Prize: A provocative look at how today’s trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers
“The authors weave a com- Author: Klein, Matthew C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 300261446
- Language: English
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The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
$21.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – An “outstanding new intellectual biography of John Maynard Keynes [that moves] swiftly along currents of lucidity and wit” (The New York Times), illuminating the world of t… [more below]
- Author: Carter, Zachary D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0525509054
- Language: English
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Principios Para Enfrentarse Al Nuevo Orden Mundial
$28.95 Read moreUna gu?a pr?ctica para prepararse para el futuro a partir del estudio del pasado
Los tiempos que vienen ser?n radicalmente diferentes a los que hemos vivido hasta ahora, pero se parecer?n mucho a otras
- Author: Dalio, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: December 20 2022
- ISBN10: 6075693653
- Language: Spanish
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The Ordinary Business of Life: A History of Economics from the Ancient World to the Twenty-First Century – New Edition
$29.95 Add to cartThe classic history of economic thought through the ages–now fully updated and expanded
Hesiod defined the basic economic problem as one of scarce resources, a view still held by economists today. Di- Author: Backhouse, Roger E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0691252017
- Language: English
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The Age of Capital: 1848-1875
$19.00 Read moreIn this book, Eric Hobsbawm chronicles the events and trends that led to the triumph of private enterprise and its exponents in the years between 1848 and 1875. Along with Hobsbawm’s other
volumes, th… [more below]- Series: History of the Modern World
- Author: Hobsbawm, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 26 1996
- ISBN10: 0679772545
- Language: English
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The Money Culture
$17.99 Read moreThe 1980s was the most outrageous and turbulent era in the financial market since the crash of ’29, not only on Wall Street but around the world. Michael Lewis, as a trainee at Salomon Brothers in New… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 14 2011
- ISBN10: 0393338657
- Language: English
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Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside Youtube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination
$30.00 Read moreThe gripping inside story of YouTube, the company that upended media, culture, industry, and democracy–by a leading tech journalist
Across the world, people watch more than a billion hours of video o- Author: Bergen, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0593296346
- Language: English
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Crash Landing: The Inside Story of How the World’s Biggest Companies Survived an Economy on the Brink
$30.00 Read moreA kaleidoscopic account of the financial carnage of the pandemic, revealing the fear, grit, and gambles that drove the economy’s winners and losers–from a leading business reporter
“A true masterwork- Author: Hoffman, Liz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0593239016
- Language: English
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Trillion Dollar Triage: How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic—And Prevented Economic Disaster
$30.00 Read moreThe inside story, told with “insight, perspective, and stellar reporting,” of how an unassuming civil servant created trillions of dollars from thin air, combatted a public health crisis, and saved th
- Author: Timiraos, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0316272817
- Language: English
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How Economics Explains the World: A Short History of Humanity
$26.00 Add to cart“If you read just one book about economics, make it Andrew Leigh’s clear, insightful, and remarkable (and short) work.” –Claudia Goldin, recipient of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics and Henry Lee P
- Author: Leigh, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0063383780
- Language: English
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Doux Commerce? Reflexiones Sobre La Despolitizaci?n Economic?sta Liberal
$18.00 Add to cartEn esta obra de Alexandra Mart?nez C?nchica se halla expuesta, de manera sistem?tica e hist?ricamente fundada, una muy necesaria revisi?n pol?tica del liberalismo.
La mirada conservadora cl?sica de Ham… [more below]
- Author: Mart?nez C?nchica, Alejandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: August 29 2024
- ISBN10: 9798894806327
- Language: Spanish
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Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money
$40.00 Add to cartA unique illustrated exploration of the development of finance that combines data from every part of the world and covers five thousand years of history
From the emergence of money in the ancient wor- Author: Wojcik, Dariusz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0300253052
- Language: English
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A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961-2021
$24.95 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author, the fascinating story of U.S. economic policy from Kennedy to Biden–filled with lessons for today
In this book, Alan Blinder, one of the world’s most influ- Author: Blinder, Alan S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0691238405
- Language: English
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The History of Money
$18.00 Add to cart“If you’re interested in the revolutionary transformation of the meaning and use of money, this is the book to read “–Charles R. Schwab
Cultural anthropologist Jack Weatherford traces our relationshi- Author: Weatherford, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 10 1998
- ISBN10: 0609801724
- Language: English
