Economic History
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Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance
$17.99 Add to cartFilled 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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Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World
$29.99 Read moreA 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 0063078309
- Language: English
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Capitalism in America: An Economic History of the United States
$21.00 Add to cartFrom 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
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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
$32.00 Add to cartUnknown to most modern-day investors and traders who cherish Reminiscences of a Stock Operator as one of the most important investment books ever written, the material first appeared in the 1920s as a… [more below]
- Series: Marketplace Book #175
- Author: Lef?vre, Edwin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 04 2004
- ISBN10: 471678767
- Language: English
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Free Market: The History of an Idea
$32.00 Read moreFrom a MacArthur “Genius,” an intellectual history of the free market, from ancient Rome to the twenty-first century
After two government bailouts of the US economy in less than twenty years, free mark
- Author: Soll, Jacob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 0465049702
- 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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Capitalism: A Short History
$20.95 Add to cartA comprehensive and concise history of capitalism from its origins to today
In this authoritative and accessible book, one of the world’s most renowned historians provides a concise and comprehensive- Author: Kocka, J?rgen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0691178224
- Language: English
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Economics Explained: Everything You Need to Know about How the Economy Works and Where It’s Going
$17.99 Add to cartIn its fourth edition, Economics Explained continues its announced purpose–to explain that mysterious thing called economics–with a new urgency.
It is announced in the first sentence of the introduc- Author: Heilbroner, Robert L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 05 1998
- ISBN10: 0684846411
- Language: English
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The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze
$21.99 Add to cartThe story of the idealists, technologists, and opportunists fighting to bring cryptocurrency to the masses.
In their short history, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have gone through booms, busts, a- Author: Shin, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1541763025
- Language: English
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Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
$21.99 Add to cart“What I am seeking here is a better understanding of the contradictions of capital, not of capitalism. I want to know how the economic engine of capitalism works the way it does, and why it might stut… [more below]
- Author: Harvey, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0190230851
- Language: English
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The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism
$21.00 Add to cartIs global capitalism on its last legs? Is the era of American leadership over? Has the West begun a decline into a new Dark Age? Does American civilization deserve to survive? These are the unnerving … [more below]
- Author: Bloom, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 607
- Publish Date: October 25 2011
- ISBN10: 1616144785
- Language: English
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
$16.99 Add to cartDistinguished British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) set off a series of movements that drastically altered the ways in which economists view the world. In his most important work, The Gene… [more below]
- Series: Great Minds
- Author: Keynes, John Maynard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 423
- Publish Date: May 01 1997
- ISBN10: 1573921394
- Language: English
