Economic History
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Losing Interest: The Antisocial History of Economic Growth
$20.00 Add to cartNothing about endless capitalist growth is normal.
Across thousands of years of human history, most cultures have placed explicit social and moral restrictions on economic growth, with charging interes… [more below]- Author: Schwartz, Scott W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1849356505
- Language: English
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The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History
$32.00 Add to cartAn eye-opening history of taxation showing that battles over taxes have always really been battles over democracy itself
Americans have always fought over the meaning of freedom and equality. What is- Author: Williamson, Vanessa S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1541606116
- Language: English
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Principios Para Enfrentarse Al Nuevo Orden Mundial
$28.95 Read moreUna gu?a pr?ctica para prepararse para el futuro a partir del estudio del pasado
Los tiempos que vienen ser?n radicalmente diferentes a los que hemos vivido hasta ahora, pero se parecer?n mucho a otras
- Author: Dalio, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: December 20 2022
- ISBN10: 6075693653
- Language: Spanish
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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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Growth: A History and a Reckoning
$21.95 Add to cartOne of Barack Obama’s 10 Favorite Books of the Year
A vivid account of the past, present, and future
One of the New Yorker‘s Best Books of the Year
Finalist for the Financial Times Best Book of the Year- Author: Susskind, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0674303571
- Language: English
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Beneath the Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work
$29.95 Add to cartBeneath the Wage retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service economy, challenging conventional assumptions about how work is waged, regulated, managed, and automated
Today, 80 percent o- Series: Near Futures #10
- Author: McClanahan, Annie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1945861096
- Language: English
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Money Beyond Borders: Global Currencies from Croesus to Crypto
$29.95 Add to cartA 2,500-year history of international currencies that reveals new insights about the future of the U.S. dollar–as well as crypto and central bank digital currencies
Doubts about the international dom- Author: Eichengreen, Barry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0691280533
- Language: English
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The Secret History of Gold: Myth, Money, Politics, and Power
$29.95 Add to cartRevealing the sweeping saga of the world’s oldest–and most treasured–currency, this is the first definitive history of gold.
The Secret History of Gold tells the sparkling, eye-opening, and definiti- Author: Frisby, Dominic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 9798897100996
- Language: English
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1873: The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World
$32.00 Add to cartNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by Literary Hub
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lords of Finance, a magnificent and timely reckoning with the first truly global financial calamity- Author: Ahamed, Liaquat
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1594204179
- Language: English
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The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest
$20.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2023 Hayek Book Prize
Longlisted for the 2022 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award
A comprehensive and profoundly relevant history of interest from one of the world’s leading
- Author: Chancellor, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0802161782
- Language: English
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The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know about How Capital Works
$34.95 Add to cartThe world’s leading Marxist geographer and economist guides general readers through major concepts in capitalism and Marx’s masterwork
For decades, David Harvey has been teaching Marx’s work, particul- Author: Harvey, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1836742118
- Language: English
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The Banker Who Made America: Thomas Willing and the Rise of the American Financial Aristocracy, 1731-1821
$35.00 Add to cartIf you haven�t followed the money, chances are you don�t know the real story of America and its Revolution. Nothing gives a clearer insight into this history than the life of early Ameri… [more below]
- Author: Vague, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1509569081
- Language: English
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The First Ghetto: Venice and the Origins of Modern Antisemitism
$34.00 Add to cartFrom an acclaimed historian, the definitive story of the Venetian Ghetto and the emergence of modern antisemitism.
In the early sixteenth century, amidst the ruins of war and mounting religious hatre- Author: Lee, Alexander
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1541608771
- Language: English
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Peak Human: What We Can Learn from History’s Greatest Civilizations
$23.99 Add to cart“Could a history book be more timely?” —The Economist
“Norberg is a prophet of anti-pessimism.” —The Guardian Golden ages are marked by periods of spectacular cultural flourishing, scientific explo- Author: Norberg, Johan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 180546387X
- Language: English
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Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York
$32.00 Add to cartHow the rise of Wall Street in the 1980s lured a generation of young upstarts to New York, unleashing a political and cultural transformation whose national repercussions are still felt today.
Yuppies- Author: Gottlieb, Dylan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 067424897X
- Language: English
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Against Money
$30.00 Add to cartA powerful deconstruction of humanity’s most influential invention, from the acclaimed economists J. W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev.
Money is everywhere in our daily lives. It lurks in the swipe of a card- Author: Mason, J. W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 07 2026
- ISBN10: 0226842533
- Language: English
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House of Fidelity: The Rise of the Johnson Dynasty and the Company That Changed American Investing
$32.50 Add to cartThe gripping, definitive account of the private family behind one of the most powerful financial institutions in the world.
When Edward C. Johnson 2d founded Fidelity in 1946, investing was a pursuit- Author: Baer, Justin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1538766957
- Language: English
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How to Get Rich in American History: 300 Years of Financial Advice That Worked (& Didn’t)
$32.00 Add to cartIn richly told stories and wild self-experiments, historian Joseph Moore tests history’s best and worst financial advice to find what worked, what didn’t, and why everyday people can still get ahead–
- Author: Moore Phd, Joseph S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 0063464586
- Language: English
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Beyond Steel: Pittsburgh and the Economics of Transformation
$27.95 Add to cartLearning from one Rust Belt city’s postindustrial transition
While Pittsburgh is sometimes held up as a successful example of urban reinvention in the era after heavy industry (think “eds and meds”),
- Author: Briem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1606355023
- Language: English
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The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World
$33.99 Add to cartToday, a vast majority of us live under the economic system called capitalism–it touches almost every aspect of our lives, and most people alive have never known another. Yet, a cursory look at the w
- Author: Jackson, Trevor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1324106875
- Language: English
