Economic History
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Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato
$26.95 Add to cartPotatoes are the world’s fourth most important food crop, yet they were unknown to most of humanity before 1500. Feeding the People traces the global journey of this popular foodstuff from the Andes t… [more below]
- Author: Earle, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: June 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1108484069
- Language: English
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Fulfillment: America in the Shadow of Amazon
$18.00 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
“A grounded and expansive examination of the American economic divide . . . It takes a skillful journalist to weave data and anecdotes together so effective- Author: Macgillis, Alec
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1250829275
- Language: English
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The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World
$19.95 Add to cartHow silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters today
This is the story of silver’s transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and h- Author: Silber, William L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0691208697
- Language: English
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Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit
$29.95 Add to cartWhy stable banking systems are so rare
Why are banking systems unstable in so many countries–but not in others? The United States has had twelve systemic banking crises since 1840, while Canada has h- Series: Princeton Economic History of the Western World #50
- Author: Calomiris, Charles W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: August 04 2015
- ISBN10: 0691168350
- Language: English
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The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History
$35.99 Add to cartDavid Hackett Fischer, one of our most prominent historians, has garnered a reputation for making history come alive–even stories as familiar as Paul Revere’s ride, or as complicated as the assimilat… [more below]
- Author: Fischer, David Hackett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: November 11 1999
- ISBN10: 019512121X
- Language: English
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On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System
$21.99 Add to cartFormer Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson — who was at the very epicenter of the crashing financial markets — provides a startling, first- person account of what really happened during this time… [more below]
- Author: Paulson, Henry M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1455551902
- Language: English
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El Fin (Y Regreso) de la Confusión: Doscientos Años de Errores Interesados Que Han Impedido El Desarrollo de México
$24.95 Add to cartDoscientos años de errores interesados que han impedido el desarrollo de México
El fin de la confusión se publicó en 2014. La idea era explicar por qué las reformas estructurales de 2013 nos permi
- Author: Schettino, Macario
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 607569398X
- Language: Spanish
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Default: The Landmark Court Battle Over Argentina’s $100 Billion Debt Restructuring
$29.95 Read moreThe dramatic inside story of the most important case in the history of sovereign debt law
Unlike individuals or corporations that become insolvent, nations do not have access to bankruptcy protection f
- Author: Makoff, Gregory
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1647123976
- Language: English
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Gdp: A Brief But Affectionate History – Revised and Expanded Edition
$16.95 Add to cartHow GDP came to rule our lives-and why it needs to change
Why did the size of the U.S. economy increase by 3 percent on one day in mid-2013-or Ghana’s balloon by 60 percent overnight in 2010? Why did- Author: Coyle, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 22 2015
- ISBN10: 0691169853
- Language: English
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The Rise of the Creative Class
$21.99 Add to cartWorld-renowned urbanist Richard Florida’s bestselling classic on the transformation of our cities in the twenty-first century — now updated with a new preface
In his modern classic The Rise of the Cre… [more below]- Author: Florida, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1541617746
- Language: English
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Manipulating the World Economy: The Rise of Modern Monetary Theory & the Inevitable Fall of Classical Economics – Is there an Alternative?
$125.00 Add to cartThe economic theories that dominated the field during the 20th century have failed us and empowered government to believe they can manipulate the business cycle. Every economic theory presented post-M
- Author: Armstrong, Martin A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 24 2021
- ISBN10: 1662914466
- Language: English
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Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the Us Working Class
$19.95 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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The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations
$19.95 Add to cartHayek Book Prize Finalist
“Sweeping, authoritative and–for the times–strikingly upbe
An Economist Best Book of the Year
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year
A Financial Times Summer Reading Favorite- Author: Aghion, Philippe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 067429209X
- Language: English
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Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
$17.99 Add to cartIcelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a pinata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack at it. T… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 0393343448
- Language: English
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Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
$23.00 Add to cartGeorge Louis Beer Prize Winner
“A groundbreaking contribution…Intellectual history at its best.”
Wallace K. Ferguson Prize Finalist
A Marginal Revolution Book of the Year
–Stephen Wertheim, Foreign Af- Author: Slobodian, Quinn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0674244842
- Language: English
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VC: An American History
$22.00 Add to cart“An incisive history of the venture-capital industry.”
“An excellent and original economic history of venture capital.”
—New Yorker
–Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution “A detailed, fact-filled account o- Author: Nicholas, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0674248260
- Language: English
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Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
$30.00 Add to cartLonglisted for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction
In the vein of The Shock Doctrine and Evil Geniuses, this timely manifesto from an acclaimed jo
A Next Big Idea Book Club Must-Read for March 2024- Author: Blakeley, Grace
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1982180854
- Language: English
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Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises
$60.00 Add to cartRay Dalio, the legendary investor and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Principles–whose books have sold more than five million copies worldwide–shares his unique template for how debt crises … [more below]
- Series: Principles
- Author: Dalio, Ray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1668009293
- Language: English
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The Genesis Book: The Story of the People and Projects That Inspired Bitcoin
$29.00 Add to cartBitcoin did not appear out of nowhere. For decades prior to Satoshi Nakamoto’s invention, a diverse group of computer scientists, privacy activists, and heterodox economists tried to create a digital … [more below]
- Author: Van Wirdum, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 358
- Publish Date: January 03 2024
- ISBN10: 9798989132621
- Language: English
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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
