Economic History
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Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle
$19.99 Add to cartThe authors of The Genius of Israel tells us what the world can learn from Israel’s meteoric economic success. Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel — a countr
- Author: Senor, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 07, 2011
- ISBN10: 0446541478
- Language: English
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
$18.99 Add to cartThe real story of the crash began in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn’t shine and the SEC doesn’t dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent im… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0393338827
- Language: English
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The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment Over 2,000 Years
$35.00 Add to cart“[A] tour de force of global history…Bosma has turned the humble sugar crystal into a mighty prism for understanding aspects of global history and the world in which we live.”–Los Angeles Review of
- Author: Bosma, Ulbe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0674279395
- Language: English
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The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest
$30.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2023 Hayek Book Prize
Longlisted for the 2022 Financial Times Business
Book of the Year AwardA comprehensive and profoundly relevant history of interest from one of the world’s leading f
- Author: Chancellor, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 0802160069
- Language: English
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A Little History of Economics
$15.00 Read moreA lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and through the ideas of great thinkers in the field
“A whistle-stop introduction to the great- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Kishtainy, Niall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 27 2018
- ISBN10: 030023452X
- Language: English
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These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs–And Wrecks–America
$30.00 Add to cartA Wall Street Journal Bestseller
Pulitzer Prize—-winning and New York Times bestselling financial journalist Gretchen Morgenson and financial policy analyst Joshua Rosner investigate the insidious w- Author: Morgenson, Gretchen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 25, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982191287
- Language: English
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
$35.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD
“A provocative read…There are few tomes that coherently map such broad economic histories as well as Mr. Dalio’s. Perhaps more unusuall- Series: Principles
- Author: Dalio, Ray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 30, 2021
- ISBN10: 1982160276
- Language: English
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The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind
$25.00 Add to cartThe surprising story of how declining marriage rates are driving many of the country’s biggest economic problems.
In The Two-Parent Privilege, Melissa S. Kearney makes a provocative, data-driven case- Author: Kearney, Melissa S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 0226817784
- Language: English
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When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firm
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR – ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST’s 50 NOTABLE WORKS OF NONFICTION
An explosive, deeply reported expos? of McKinsey & Company, the inte- Author: Bogdanich, Walt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0593081870
- Language: English
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Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality
$46.58 Add to cartFrom the Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times bestselling coauthor of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, candid reflections on the economist’s craft
When economist Angus Deato- Author: Deaton, Angus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0691247625
- Language: English
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Updated and Expanded
$26.99 Add to cartThe groundbreaking international best-seller that turns everything you think about money, debt, and society on its head–from the “brilliant, deeply original political thinker” David Graeber (Rebecca … [more below]
- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1612194192
- Language: English
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Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
$32.50 Add to cart“The most important book to read about the AI boom” (Wired): The “gripping” (New Yorker) true story of the first time machines came for human jobs–and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, th
- Author: Merchant, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0316487740
- Language: English
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Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
$19.99 Add to cart“Blending intellectual memoir, history, and economic and technological history, Varoufakis creates an intimate atmosphere that is a genuine pleasure to read … It’s hard to read this book and deny it… [more below]
- Author: Varoufakis, Yanis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1685891241
- Language: English
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Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
$19.99 Read moreLonglisted for the Porchlight Business Book Awards
“A smart and accessible cultural history.”-Los Angeles Times A portrait–by turns celebratory, skeptical, and surprisingly moving–of one of America- Author: Lange, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1639732055
- Language: English
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Capitalism and Freedom
$22.00 Add to cartOne of TIME magazine’s All-TIME 100 Best Nonfiction Books
One of Times Literary Supplement‘s 100 Most Influential Books Since the War
One of National Review‘s 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Centur… [more below]- Author: Friedman, Milton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 022673479X
- Language: English
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The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers
$22.00 Add to cartThe bestselling classic that examines the history of economic thought from Adam Smith to Karl Marx–“all the economic lore most general readers conceivably could want to know, served up with a flouris
- Author: Heilbroner, Robert L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 10, 1999
- ISBN10: 068486214X
- Language: English
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Broken Money: Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make it Better
$23.99 Add to cartA Comprehensive Overview of the Past, Present, and Future of Money
Broken Money explores the history of money through the lens of technology. Politics can affect things temporarily and locally, but tec
- Author: Alden, Lyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 538
- Publish Date: August 22, 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988666318
- Language: English
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The Undercover Economist, Revised and Updated Edition: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor – And Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car
$31.99 Add to cartWith over one million copies sold, The Undercover Economist has been hailed worldwide as a fantastic guide to the fundamental principles of economics. An economist’s version of The Way Things Work, th… [more below]
- Author: Harford, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0199926514
- Language: English
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The Wealth of Nations
$10.99 Add to cartThe Wealth of Nations
It is symbolic that Adam Smith’s masterpiece of economic analysis, The Wealth of Nations, was first published in 1776, the same year as the Declaration of Independen
by Adam Smith- Author: Smith, Adam
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 1264
- Publish Date: March 04 2003
- ISBN10: 0553585975
- Language: English
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The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
$30.00 Add to cartA Financial Times Best Book of the Year
“A must-read, with key lessons for the future.”–Thomas Piketty A groundbreaking examination of austerity’s dark intellectual origins. For more than a centu- Author: Mattei, Clara E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 17 2022
- ISBN10: 022681839X
- Language: English
