Economic History
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The Law
$21.99 Add to cartFrederic Bastiat explores the fundamental principles of law and its impact on society. With incisive clarity, he unveils the true purpose of law as a defender of individual rights and a safeguard agai
- Author: Bastiat, Frederic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 24 2007
- ISBN10: 9562910113
- Language: English
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A History of Interest Rates
$105.00 Add to cartA History of Interest Rates presents a very readable account of interest rate trends and lending practices over four millennia of economic history. Despite the paucity of data prior to the Industrial … [more below]
- Series: Wiley Finance #322
- Author: Homer, Sidney
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: August 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0471732834
- Language: English
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Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism
$31.99 Add to cartWith its deep roots and global scope, the capitalist system seems universal and timeless. The framework for our lives, it is a source of constant change, sometimes measured and predictable, sometimes
- Series: Norton Paperback
- Author: Appleby, Joyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0393339394
- Language: English
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From Burning to Blueprint: Rebuilding Black Wall Street After a Century of Silence
$16.99 Add to cartFrom Burning to Blueprint tells the story of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in the era of the Black Lives Matter movement and social activism. As the title suggests, it is more than a historical account
- Author: Matthews, Kevin, II
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1736666703
- Language: English
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Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
$19.99 Read more“Lucid, deeply informed, and enlivened with striking illustrations.” -Noam Chomsky
One economist has called Ha-Joon Chang “the most exciting thinker our profession has turned out in the past fifteen- Author: Chang, Ha-Joon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 02 2009
- ISBN10: 1596915986
- Language: English
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The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility
$23.95 Add to cartA surprising look at how ancestry still determines social outcomes
How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does it influence our children? More than we wis- Series: Princeton Economic History of the Western World #49
- Author: Clark, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 25 2015
- ISBN10: 0691168377
- Language: English
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Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato
$28.00 Add to cartPotatoes are the world’s fourth most important food crop, yet they were unknown to most of humanity before 1500. Feeding the People traces the global journey of this popular foodstuff from the Andes t… [more below]
- Author: Earle, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: June 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1108484069
- Language: English
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Fulfillment: America in the Shadow of Amazon
$18.00 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
“A grounded and expansive examination of the American economic divide . . . It takes a skillful journalist to weave data and anecdotes together so effective- Author: Macgillis, Alec
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1250829275
- Language: English
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The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World
$19.95 Add to cartHow silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters today
This is the story of silver’s transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and h- Author: Silber, William L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0691208697
- Language: English
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Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit
$29.95 Add to cartWhy stable banking systems are so rare
Why are banking systems unstable in so many countries–but not in others? The United States has had twelve systemic banking crises since 1840, while Canada has h- Series: Princeton Economic History of the Western World #50
- Author: Calomiris, Charles W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: August 04 2015
- ISBN10: 0691168350
- Language: English
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The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History
$36.99 Add to cartDavid Hackett Fischer, one of our most prominent historians, has garnered a reputation for making history come alive–even stories as familiar as Paul Revere’s ride, or as complicated as the assimilat… [more below]
- Author: Fischer, David Hackett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: November 11 1999
- ISBN10: 019512121X
- Language: English
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On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System
$21.99 Read moreFormer Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson — who was at the very epicenter of the crashing financial markets — provides a startling, first- person account of what really happened during this time… [more below]
- Author: Paulson, Henry M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1455551902
- Language: English
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El Fin (Y Regreso) de la Confusión: Doscientos Años de Errores Interesados Que Han Impedido El Desarrollo de México
$24.95 Add to cartDoscientos años de errores interesados que han impedido el desarrollo de México
El fin de la confusión se publicó en 2014. La idea era explicar por qué las reformas estructurales de 2013 nos permi
- Author: Schettino, Macario
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 607569398X
- Language: Spanish
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Default: The Landmark Court Battle Over Argentina’s $100 Billion Debt Restructuring
$29.95 Add to cartThe dramatic inside story of the most important case in the history of sovereign debt law
Unlike individuals or corporations that become insolvent, nations do not have access to bankruptcy protection f
- Author: Makoff, Gregory
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1647123976
- Language: English
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Gdp: A Brief But Affectionate History – Revised and Expanded Edition
$17.95 Add to cartHow GDP came to rule our lives-and why it needs to change
Why did the size of the U.S. economy increase by 3 percent on one day in mid-2013-or Ghana’s balloon by 60 percent overnight in 2010? Why did- Author: Coyle, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 22 2015
- ISBN10: 0691169853
- Language: English
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The Rise of the Creative Class
$21.99 Add to cartWorld-renowned urbanist Richard Florida’s bestselling classic on the transformation of our cities in the twenty-first century — now updated with a new preface
In his modern classic The Rise of the Cre… [more below]- Author: Florida, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1541617746
- Language: English
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Manipulating the World Economy: The Rise of Modern Monetary Theory & the Inevitable Fall of Classical Economics – Is there an Alternative?
$125.00 Add to cartThe economic theories that dominated the field during the 20th century have failed us and empowered government to believe they can manipulate the business cycle. Every economic theory presented post-M
- Author: Armstrong, Martin A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 24 2021
- ISBN10: 1662914466
- Language: English
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Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the Us Working Class
$24.95 Add to cartA brilliant and comprehensive study of class struggle in the United States
Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis’s brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist hi
- Series: Essential Mike Davis
- Author: Davis, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1786635909
- Language: English
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The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations
$19.95 Add to cartHayek Book Prize Finalist
“Sweeping, authoritative and–for the times–strikingly upbe
An Economist Best Book of the Year
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year
A Financial Times Summer Reading Favorite- Author: Aghion, Philippe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 067429209X
- Language: English
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Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
$17.99 Add to cartIcelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a pinata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack at it. T… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 0393343448
- Language: English
