Economic History
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The Great Crash 1929
$16.99 Add to cartJohn Kenneth Galbraith’s classic examination of the 1929 financial collapse.
Arguing that the 1929 stock market crash was precipitated by rampant speculation in the stock market, Galbraith notes that … [more below]
- Author: Galbraith, John Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0547248164
- Language: English
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A Declaration of Energy Independence: How Freedom from Foreign Oil Can Improve National Security, Our Economy, and the Environment
$27.95 Add to cartIf you’ve wondered about how America can break links between oil consumption, terrorism, and the war in Iraq, A Declaration of Energy Independence: How Freedom from Foreign Oil Can Improve National Se… [more below]
- Author: Hakes, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: July 20 2015
- ISBN10: 1119112516
- Language: English
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Boom and Bust
$21.95 Add to cart- Author: Quinn, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: October 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1108431658
- Language: English
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Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
$21.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE
“An intelligent explanation of the mechanisms that prod
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018
ONE OF THE ECONOMIST’S BOOKS OF THE YEAR
A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS’ TOP BOOK- Author: Tooze, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 143110357
- Language: English
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Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance
$17.99 Read moreFilled with colorful characters and history, Double Entry takes us from the ancient origins of accounting in Mesopotamia to the frontiers of modern finance. At the heart of the story is double-entry b… [more below]
- Author: Gleeson-White, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0393346595
- Language: English
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Yellen: The Trailblazing Economist Who Navigated an Era of Upheaval
$32.50 Add to cart“A vivid portrait of an exceptional woman and a lively history of the economic and financial crises that helped make the treasury secretary and former Fed chair who she is today.” –Sylvia Nasar, #1 N
- Author: Hilsenrath, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0063162466
- Language: English
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The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity
$29.00 Add to cart“An extraordinary work of intellectual history as well as a scholarly tour de force, a bracing polemic, and a work of Christian prophecy…McCarraher challenges more than 200 years of post-Enlightenme
- Author: McCarraher, Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0674271092
- Language: English
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The Forgotten Depression: 1921, the Crash That Cured Itself
$18.00 Add to cartJames Grant’s story of America’s last governmentally untreated depression: A bible for conservative economists, this “carefully researched history…makes difficult economic concepts easy to understan… [more below]
- Author: Grant, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 17 2015
- ISBN10: 1451686463
- Language: English
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Capitalism in America: An Economic History of the United States
$21.00 Read moreFrom the legendary former Fed Chairman and the acclaimed Economist writer and historian, the full, epic story of America’s evolution from a small patchwork of threadbare colonies to the most powerful … [more below]
- Author: Greenspan, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 735222460
- Language: English
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Markets in Chaos: A History of Market Crises Around the World
$34.99 Add to cart- Author: Hughes, Brendan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: November 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1637425147
- Language: English
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A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy
$26.95 Add to cartWhy Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial Revolution
During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that sprea- Author: Mokyr, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 0691180962
- Language: English
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The National System of Political Economy – Imperium Press
$30.00 Add to cartFriedrich List is the father of economic nationalism and the historical school of economics. Responding to Adam Smith’s free market apologetics, in The National System of Political Economy List provid
- Author: List, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1922602353
- Language: English
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House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again
$18.00 Add to cartThe Great American Recession resulted in the loss of eight million jobs between 2007 and 2009. More than four million homes were lost to foreclosures. Is it a coincidence that the United States witnes… [more below]
- Author: Mian, Atif
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 20 2015
- ISBN10: 022627165X
- Language: English
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Everything Economics Book: From Theory to Practice, Your Complete Guide to Understanding Economics Today
$26.99 Add to cartThe Dismal Science. The Worldly Philosophy. The Science of Scarcity. Most people think economics is one of the most challenging and complex fields of study. But with this book, it doesn’t have to be! … [more below]
- Series: Everything (Business & Personal Finance)
- Author: Mayer, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 18 2010
- ISBN10: 1440506027
- Language: English
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The Law
$21.99 Add to cartFrederic Bastiat explores the fundamental principles of law and its impact on society. With incisive clarity, he unveils the true purpose of law as a defender of individual rights and a safeguard agai
- Author: Bastiat, Frederic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 24 2007
- ISBN10: 9562910113
- Language: English
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A History of Interest Rates
$105.00 Add to cartA History of Interest Rates presents a very readable account of interest rate trends and lending practices over four millennia of economic history. Despite the paucity of data prior to the Industrial … [more below]
- Series: Wiley Finance #322
- Author: Homer, Sidney
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: August 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0471732834
- Language: English
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Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism
$31.99 Add to cartWith its deep roots and global scope, the capitalist system seems universal and timeless. The framework for our lives, it is a source of constant change, sometimes measured and predictable, sometimes
- Series: Norton Paperback
- Author: Appleby, Joyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0393339394
- Language: English
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From Burning to Blueprint: Rebuilding Black Wall Street After a Century of Silence
$16.99 Add to cartFrom Burning to Blueprint tells the story of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in the era of the Black Lives Matter movement and social activism. As the title suggests, it is more than a historical account
- Author: Matthews, Kevin, II
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1736666703
- Language: English
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Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
$19.99 Add to cart“Lucid, deeply informed, and enlivened with striking illustrations.” -Noam Chomsky
One economist has called Ha-Joon Chang “the most exciting thinker our profession has turned out in the past fifteen- Author: Chang, Ha-Joon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 02 2009
- ISBN10: 1596915986
- Language: English
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The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility
$22.95 Add to cartA surprising look at how ancestry still determines social outcomes
How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does it influence our children? More than we wis- Series: Princeton Economic History of the Western World #49
- Author: Clark, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 25 2015
- ISBN10: 0691168377
- Language: English
