Economic History
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
$31.99 Add to cartWhen the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizarre feed… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0393072231
- 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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A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
$22.00 Add to cartA sweeping narrative history of world trade–from Sumer in 3000 BC to the firestorm over globalization today–that brilliantly explores trade’s colorful and contentious past and provides fresh insight
- Author: Bernstein, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0802144160
- 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
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Economix: How Our Economy Works (and Doesn’t Work), in Words and Pictures
$23.99 Add to cartEverybody’s talking about the economy, but how can we, the people, make sense of what Wall Street or Washington say they know? Read author Michael Goodwin and illustrator Dan E. Burr’s New York Times … [more below]
- Author: Goodwin, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0810988399
- Language: English
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Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
$23.00 Add to cartGeorge Louis Beer Prize Winner
“A groundbreaking contribution…Intellectual history at its best.”
Wallace K. Ferguson Prize Finalist
A Marginal Revolution Book of the Year
–Stephen Wertheim, Foreign Af- Author: Slobodian, Quinn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0674244842
- Language: English
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Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events
$22.95 Read moreFrom Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller, a groundbreaking account of how stories help drive economic events–and why financial panics can spread like ep
- Author: Shiller, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0691210268
- Language: English
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The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America’s Lost Promise of Economic Rights
$26.00 Add to cartAn urgent and galvanizing argument for an Economic Bill of Rights–and its potential to confer true freedom on all Americans.
Since the Founding, Americans have debated the true meaning of freedom. F- Author: Paul, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 12 2023
- ISBN10: 022679296X
- Language: English
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VC: An American History
$22.00 Read more“An incisive history of the venture-capital industry.”
“An excellent and original economic history of venture capital.”
—New Yorker
–Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution “A detailed, fact-filled account o- Author: Nicholas, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0674248260
- Language: English
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India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today
$35.00 Add to cartA provocative new account of how India moved relentlessly from its hope-filled founding in 1947 to the dramatic economic and democratic breakdowns of today.
When Indian leaders first took control of t
- Author: Mody, Ashoka
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1503630056
- Language: English
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Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years’ War Over the American Dollar
$21.99 Add to cartMost Americans are familiar with the political history of the United States, but there is another history woven all through it, a largely forgotten history–the story of the money men. Acclaimed histo
- Series: Enterprise #0
- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0393330508
- Language: English
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Economics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartHere Partha Dasgupta, an internationally recognized authority in economics, presents readers with a solid introduction to its basic concepts, including efficiency, equity, sustainability, dynamic equi… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Dasgupta, Partha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 05 2007
- ISBN10: 0192853457
- Language: English
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Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises
$37.99 Add to cartIn the Eighth Edition of this classic text on the financial history of bubbles and crashes, Robert McCauley joins with Robert Aliber in building on Charles Kindleberger’s renowned work. McCauley draws
- Author: Aliber, Robert Z.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 425
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 303116007X
- Language: English
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Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
$30.00 Add to cartLonglisted for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction
In the vein of The Shock Doctrine and Evil Geniuses, this timely manifesto from an acclaimed jo
A Next Big Idea Book Club Must-Read for March 2024- Author: Blakeley, Grace
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1982180854
- Language: English
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Nothing Down for the 2000s: Dynamic New Wealth Strategies in Real Estate
$19.99 Add to cartWith more than a million copies in print, Robert Allen’s Nothing Down for the ’90s has probably helped more people achieve success in real estate than any book in history. Countless numbers of his rea… [more below]
- Author: Allen, Robert G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 22 2010
- ISBN10: 1451624255
- Language: English
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Paper Soldiers: How the Weaponization of the Dollar Changed the World Order
$30.00 Read more“Incisive debut treatise… Mohsin brings to the proceedings a reporter’s eye for story” — Publisher’s Weekly
From Bloomberg News reporter Saleha Mohsin, the untold story of how one of America’s most- Author: Mohsin, Saleha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0593539117
- Language: English
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Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises
$60.00 Add to cartRay Dalio, the legendary investor and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Principles–whose books have sold more than five million copies worldwide–shares his unique template for how debt crises … [more below]
- Series: Principles
- Author: Dalio, Ray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1668009293
- Language: English
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The Genesis Book: The Story of the People and Projects That Inspired Bitcoin
$29.00 Add to cartBitcoin did not appear out of nowhere. For decades prior to Satoshi Nakamoto’s invention, a diverse group of computer scientists, privacy activists, and heterodox economists tried to create a digital … [more below]
- Author: Van Wirdum, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 358
- Publish Date: January 03 2024
- ISBN10: 9798989132621
- Language: English
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World: 10th Anniversary Edition
$21.00 Add to cartThe 10th anniversary edition, with new chapters on the crash, Chimerica, and cryptocurrency
“[An] excellent, just in time guide to the history of finance and financial crisis.” —The Washington Post
“F- Author: Ferguson, Niall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0143116177
- Language: English
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Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History
$29.95 Add to cartA sweeping germ’s-eye view of history from human origins to global pandemics
Plagues upon the Earth is a monumental history of humans and their germs. Weaving together a grand narrative of global hist- Series: Princeton Economic History of the Western World
- Author: Harper, Kyle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0691230595
- Language: English
