Economic History
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The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
$21.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – An “outstanding new intellectual biography of John Maynard Keynes [that moves] swiftly along currents of lucidity and wit” (The New York Times), illuminating the world of t… [more below]
- Author: Carter, Zachary D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0525509054
- Language: English
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Principios Para Enfrentarse Al Nuevo Orden Mundial
$28.95 Add to cartUna 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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The Ordinary Business of Life: A History of Economics from the Ancient World to the Twenty-First Century – New Edition
$27.95 Add to cartThe classic history of economic thought through the ages–now fully updated and expanded
Hesiod defined the basic economic problem as one of scarce resources, a view still held by economists today. Di- Author: Backhouse, Roger E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0691252017
- Language: English
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The Age of Capital: 1848-1875
$19.00 Add to cartIn this book, Eric Hobsbawm chronicles the events and trends that led to the triumph of private enterprise and its exponents in the years between 1848 and 1875. Along with Hobsbawm’s other
volumes, th… [more below]- Series: History of the Modern World
- Author: Hobsbawm, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 26 1996
- ISBN10: 0679772545
- Language: English
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The Money Culture
$17.99 Read moreThe 1980s was the most outrageous and turbulent era in the financial market since the crash of ’29, not only on Wall Street but around the world. Michael Lewis, as a trainee at Salomon Brothers in New… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 14 2011
- ISBN10: 0393338657
- Language: English
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Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside Youtube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination
$30.00 Read moreThe gripping inside story of YouTube, the company that upended media, culture, industry, and democracy–by a leading tech journalist
Across the world, people watch more than a billion hours of video o- Author: Bergen, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0593296346
- Language: English
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Crash Landing: The Inside Story of How the World’s Biggest Companies Survived an Economy on the Brink
$30.00 Read moreA kaleidoscopic account of the financial carnage of the pandemic, revealing the fear, grit, and gambles that drove the economy’s winners and losers–from a leading business reporter
“A true masterwork- Author: Hoffman, Liz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0593239016
- Language: English
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Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
$0.00 Read moreLonglisted for the Porchlight Business Book Awards
“A smart and accessible cultural history.”-Los Angeles Times “A fantastic examination of what became the mall … envision[ing] a more meaningful pu- Author: Lange, Alexandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1635576024
- Language: English
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Trillion Dollar Triage: How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic—And Prevented Economic Disaster
$30.00 Read moreThe inside story, told with “insight, perspective, and stellar reporting,” of how an unassuming civil servant created trillions of dollars from thin air, combatted a public health crisis, and saved th
- Author: Timiraos, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0316272817
- Language: English
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How Economics Explains the World: A Short History of Humanity
$26.00 Add to cart“If you read just one book about economics, make it Andrew Leigh’s clear, insightful, and remarkable (and short) work.” –Claudia Goldin, recipient of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics and Henry Lee P
- Author: Leigh, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0063383780
- Language: English
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Doux Commerce? Reflexiones Sobre La Despolitizaci?n Economic?sta Liberal
$18.00 Add to cartEn esta obra de Alexandra Mart?nez C?nchica se halla expuesta, de manera sistem?tica e hist?ricamente fundada, una muy necesaria revisi?n pol?tica del liberalismo.
La mirada conservadora cl?sica de Ham… [more below]
- Author: Mart?nez C?nchica, Alejandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: August 29 2024
- ISBN10: 9798894806327
- Language: Spanish
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Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money
$40.00 Add to cartA unique illustrated exploration of the development of finance that combines data from every part of the world and covers five thousand years of history
From the emergence of money in the ancient wor- Author: Wojcik, Dariusz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0300253052
- Language: English
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A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961-2021
$24.95 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0691238405
- Language: English
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The History of Money
$18.00 Add to cart“If you’re interested in the revolutionary transformation of the meaning and use of money, this is the book to read “–Charles R. Schwab
Cultural anthropologist Jack Weatherford traces our relationshi- Author: Weatherford, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 10 1998
- ISBN10: 0609801724
- Language: English
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Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World
$19.99 Add to cartA San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller – An NPR Best Book of the Year
The New York Times‘s Global Economics Correspondent masterfully reveals how billionaires’ systematic plunder of the world–brazenly
- Author: Goodman, Peter S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0063078317
- Language: English
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The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class
$20.99 Read moreFollowing a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upwa… [more below]
- Author: Kotkin, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1641772840
- Language: English
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Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
$22.00 Add to cartFrom one of the nation’s preeminent experts on economic policy, a major reassessment of the foundations of modern economic thinking that explores the profound influence of an until-now unrecognized fo… [more below]
- Author: Friedman, Benjamin M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0593311094
- Language: English
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Wild Ride: A Short History of the Opening and Closing of the Chinese Economy
$16.99 Add to cartHow did China grow from an impoverished country to become the second largest economy in the world in just over four decades? And how did this economic miracle come to an end, as seems the case today? … [more below]
- Author: Stevenson-Yang, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 173942431X
- Language: English
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Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic
$25.00 Add to cartHow did past civilizations rise and fall? How rare is America’s experiment with a republic? With every crisis, is power being taken away from “the people” and transfered to the central government. Doe… [more below]
- Author: Federer, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: February 03 2011
- ISBN10: 0982710143
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War
$27.95 Add to cartHow America’s high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threat
In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previ- Series: Princeton Economic History of the Western World #70
- Author: Gordon, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: August 29 2017
- ISBN10: 0691175802
- Language: English
