Economic History
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The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
$27.00 Add to cart“Masterful . . . [A] painstakingly researched, astonishingly erudite study…Tooze has added his name to the roll call of top-class scholars of Nazism.” —Financial Times
An extraordinary mythology has… [more below]- Author: Tooze, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: March 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0143113208
- Language: English
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Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
$25.00 Add to cartA major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union–showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to its demise
“A deeply informed account of how the Soviet Union fell apart.”–Rodric Braithwaite, Fin- Author: Zubok, Vladislav M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0300268173
- Language: English
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Capital and Ideology
$39.95 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller
The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary
An NPR Best Book of the Year- Author: Piketty, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1104
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0674980824
- Language: English
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Talking to My Daughter About the Economy
$14.00 Add to cartA Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
In Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance minister and the author of the international bestseller Ad- Author: Varoufakis, Yanis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 21, 2019
- ISBN10: 0374538492
- Language: English
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Updated and Expanded
$34.99 Add to cartThe classic work on debt, now is a special tenth anniversary edition with a new introduction by Thomas Piketty
Before there was money, there was debt.
Every economics textbook says the same thing: Mon… [more below]- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 161219933X
- Language: English
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The Power of Money: How Governments and Banks Create Money and Help Us All Prosper
$30.00 Read moreWALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER
Money permeates our everyday lives–it literally makes the economic world go round–and yet confusion and controversy about money abound. In The Power of Money, economis- Author: Sheard, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 09, 2023
- ISBN10: 1637743157
- Language: English
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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger – Second Edition with a New Chapter by
$19.95 Add to cartIn April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in
- Author: Levinson, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0691170819
- Language: English
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The Wealth of Nations
$22.00 Add to cartAdam Smith’s masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capitali
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Smith, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1184
- Publish Date: November 14 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783369
- Language: English
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The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism
$34.00 Read moreHow Chile became home to the world’s most radical free-market experiment–and what its downfall suggests about the fate of neoliberalism around the globe
In The Chile Project, Sebastian Edwards tells- Author: Edwards, Sebastian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 069120862X
- Language: English
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The Barcode: How a Team Created One of the World’s Most Ubiquitous Technologies
$20.00 Add to cartTen billion or more times each day, electronic scanners read data encoded in black-and-white codes-barcodes-printed on or affixed to physical goods. The Barcode is the memoir from the team who helped
- Author: McEnroe, Paul V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
$35.00 Read moreAn instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from one of the world’s leading economists, offering a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever, but left us unsatisfie… [more below]
- Author: DeLong, J. Bradford
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 465019595
- Language: English
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Free to Obey: How the Nazis Invented Modern Management
$17.00 Read moreWhat if the rules of modern capitalism were written during the Third Reich?
Reinhard Hn (1904-2000) was a commander of the SS, one of Nazi Germany’s most brilliant legal minds, and an archetype of t
- Author: Chapoutot, Johann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 1609458044
- Language: English
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Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System–And Themselves
$23.00 Add to cartBrand New for 2018: an updated edition featuring a new afterword to mark the 10th anniversary of the financial crisis
The brilliantly reported New York Times bestseller that goes behind the scenes of … [more below]- Author: Sorkin, Andrew Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0143118242
- Language: English
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A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961-2021
$48.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0691238383
- Language: English
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Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization
$32.50 Read moreA leading economic historian presents a new history of financial crises, showing how some led to greater globalization while others kept nations apart
“[A] fascinating book.”–Martin Wolf, Financial T- Author: James, Harold
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0300263392
- Language: English
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
$22.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A deeply engaging history of how European settlements in the post-Colombian Americas shaped the world–from the highly acclaimed author of 1491. – “Fascinating…Lively…A convi
- Author: Mann, Charles C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: July 24, 2012
- ISBN10: 0307278247
- Language: English
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No Free Lunch: Six Economic Lies You’ve Been Taught And Probably Believe
$16.99 Add to cart“A welcome addition to the literature striving to eradicate one of the greatest social ills humanity faces-basic economic illiteracy.” –Peter J. Boettke, University Professor of Economics and Philoso
- Author: Fuller, Caleb S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: October 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1956267123
- Language: English
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Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021
$17.00 Read moreA chronicle of recent events that have shaken the world, from the author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century
“What makes this manifesto noteworthy is that it comes from . . . an economist who gaine- Author: Piketty, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0300268122
- Language: English
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Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
$18.99 Add to cartNobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans–predictable, error-prone individuals. Misbehaving is his arresting,
- Author: Thaler, Richard H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 14 2016
- ISBN10: 039335279X
- Language: English
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The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy
$19.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller from business journalist Christopher Leonard infiltrates one of America’s most mysterious institutions–the Federal Reserve–to show how its policies spearheaded by Chair
- Author: Leonard, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982166649
- Language: English
