Economic History
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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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Capitalism Without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy
$18.95 Add to cartEarly in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, and software, than i… [more below]
- Author: Haskel, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0691183295
- 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
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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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Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics
$19.99 Add to cartAs the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore balance to economies gone awry. John Maynard Keynes, the mercurial Cambridge e… [more below]
- Author: Wapshott, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 10 2012
- ISBN10: 0393343634
- Language: English
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The Wealth of Nations: Books I-III
$17.00 Add to cartThe classic economic treatise that insipired Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century
The publication of The Wealth of Nations in 1776 coincided with America’s Declaration of Independence,
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Smith, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 570
- Publish Date: March 25 1982
- ISBN10: 0140432086
- Language: English
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The Pandemic Paradox: How the Covid Crisis Made Americans More Financially Secure
$58.33 Read moreWhy most Americans’ finances improved during the worst economic contraction since the Great Depression–and the policy choices that made this possible
In March 2020, economic and social life across th- Author: Fulford, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0691245320
- 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
$23.00 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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American Flannel: How a Band of Entrepreneurs Are Bringing the Art and Business of Making Clothes Back Home
$29.00 Read more“I can confidently say this will be one of my favorite books of 2024.” –Stephen King, bestselling author (and onetime millworker)
“American Flannel is a wonderful book–surprising, entertaining, vivi- Author: Kurutz, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0593329619
- Language: English
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The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism Before Its Triumph
$22.95 Add to cartIn this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pur
- Series: Princeton Classics #2
- Author: Hirschman, Albert O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 06 2013
- ISBN10: 0691160252
- Language: English
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Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History
$18.99 Add to cart“A lively, enlightening introduction to monetary history…from monetarism’s most articulate apostle.”–Kirkus Reviews“The Oliver Stone of economics” (Chicago Tribune), Nobel Prize laureate Milton Fri… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Friedman, Milton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 31 1994
- ISBN10: 015661930X
- 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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Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
$23.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2019 * WINNER OF THE J ANTHONY LUKAS WORK-IN-PROGRESS AWARD * FINANCIAL TIMES’ BEST BOOKS OF 2019 * NPR FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019 * FINALIST FOR… [more below]
- Author: Leonard, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1476775397
- Language: English
