Economic History
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House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again
$18.00 Add to cartThe Great American Recession resulted in the loss of eight million jobs between 2007 and 2009. More than four million homes were lost to foreclosures. Is it a coincidence that the United States witnes… [more below]
- Author: Mian, Atif
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 20 2015
- ISBN10: 022627165X
- Language: English
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Everything Economics Book: From Theory to Practice, Your Complete Guide to Understanding Economics Today
$26.99 Add to cartThe Dismal Science. The Worldly Philosophy. The Science of Scarcity. Most people think economics is one of the most challenging and complex fields of study. But with this book, it doesn’t have to be! … [more below]
- Series: Everything (Business & Personal Finance)
- Author: Mayer, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 18 2010
- ISBN10: 1440506027
- Language: English
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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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Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World
$18.99 Add to cartIn this searing exposﾃ(c)former Wall Street insider Nomi Prins shows how the 2007-2008 financial crisis turbo-boosted the influence of central bankers and triggered a massive shift in the world orde… [more below]
- Author: Prins, Nomi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1568589433
- Language: English
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How to Teach Economics to Your Dog: A Quirky Introduction
$16.95 Read moreA fun take on some of the biggest questions in economics, made accessible for non-experts (and dogs)
Monty is a dog, not a financial genius, but economics still shapes his everyday life. Over the cour- Series: How to Teach
- Author: Campbell, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0861546180
- Language: English
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Sony
$19.99 Add to cartNamed one of the best business books of the year (by Fortune and Newsweek), SONY is the “intimate biography of one of the world’s leading electronics giants” (San Francisco Chronicle) as well as one o
- Author: Nathan, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: April 05 2001
- ISBN10: 0618126945
- 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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Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream
$45.50 Read moreThe untold story of how America once created the most successful economy the world has ever seen and how we can do it again.
The American economy glitters on the outside, but the reality is quite dif- Author: Gruber, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1541762487
- 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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The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&l Industry
$24.95 Add to cartIn this expert insider’s account of the savings and loan debacle of the 1980s, William Black lays bare the strategies that corrupt CEOs and CFOs–in collusion with those who have regulatory oversight
- Author: Black, William K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 15, 2013
- ISBN10: 0292754183
- 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 Lost Bank: The Story of Washington Mutual – The Biggest Bank Failure in American History
$19.99 Add to cartAn award-winning reporter chronicles the calamitous story of Washington Mutual, the single-largest bank failure in American history, in this fast-paced, compelling, and gripping saga of greed and exce… [more below]
- Author: Grind, Kirsten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 16 2013
- ISBN10: 1451617933
- Language: English
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Essays on the Great Depression
$20.95 Add to cartFrom the Nobel Prize-winning economist and former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, a landmark book that provides vital lessons for understanding financial crises and their sometimes-catastrophic eco
- Author: Bernanke, Ben S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0691254133
- Language: English
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Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
$19.99 Add to cartA Fortune best nonfiction book of 2023
In a revelatory dispatch from the frontier of capitalist extremism, an acclaimed historian of ideas shows how free marketeers are realizing their ultimate goal:- Author: Slobodian, Quinn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1250871859
- 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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The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis
$12.95 Add to cartBen Bernanke’s history of the Federal Reserve and its response to the 2008 financial crisis
In 2012, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, gave a series of lectures about the Federal Res- Author: Bernanke, Ben S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 22 2015
- ISBN10: 0691165572
- Language: English
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The History of the Standard Oil Company: Briefer Version
$16.95 Add to cartThis muckraking classic, which eventually led to regulation of the Standard Oil Company, was the inaugural work for crusading journalists whose mission was to expose corruption and abuse during the ea… [more below]
- Author: Tarbell, Ida M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 10 2003
- ISBN10: 0486428214
- 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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The Commanding Heights
$22.00 Add to cartThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Prize joins a leading expert on the global economy to present an incisive narrative of the risks and opportunities that are emerging as the balance of power sh… [more below]
- Author: Yergin, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 02 2002
- ISBN10: 068483569X
- Language: English
