Economic History
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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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Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream
$45.50 Read moreThe untold story of how America once created the most successful economy the world has ever seen and how we can do it again.
The American economy glitters on the outside, but the reality is quite dif- Author: Gruber, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1541762487
- 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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The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&l Industry
$24.95 Add to cartIn this expert insider’s account of the savings and loan debacle of the 1980s, William Black lays bare the strategies that corrupt CEOs and CFOs–in collusion with those who have regulatory oversight
- Author: Black, William K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 15, 2013
- ISBN10: 0292754183
- 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 Lost Bank: The Story of Washington Mutual – The Biggest Bank Failure in American History
$19.99 Add to cartAn award-winning reporter chronicles the calamitous story of Washington Mutual, the single-largest bank failure in American history, in this fast-paced, compelling, and gripping saga of greed and exce… [more below]
- Author: Grind, Kirsten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 16 2013
- ISBN10: 1451617933
- Language: English
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Essays on the Great Depression
$19.95 Add to cartFrom the Nobel Prize-winning economist and former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, a landmark book that provides vital lessons for understanding financial crises and their sometimes-catastrophic eco
- Author: Bernanke, Ben S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0691254133
- Language: English
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Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
$19.99 Add to cartA Fortune best nonfiction book of 2023
In a revelatory dispatch from the frontier of capitalist extremism, an acclaimed historian of ideas shows how free marketeers are realizing their ultimate goal:- Author: Slobodian, Quinn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1250871859
- 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
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The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis
$12.95 Add to cartBen Bernanke’s history of the Federal Reserve and its response to the 2008 financial crisis
In 2012, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, gave a series of lectures about the Federal Res- Author: Bernanke, Ben S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 22 2015
- ISBN10: 0691165572
- Language: English
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The History of the Standard Oil Company: Briefer Version
$16.95 Add to cartThis muckraking classic, which eventually led to regulation of the Standard Oil Company, was the inaugural work for crusading journalists whose mission was to expose corruption and abuse during the ea… [more below]
- Author: Tarbell, Ida M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 10 2003
- ISBN10: 0486428214
- Language: English
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Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato
$28.00 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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The Commanding Heights
$22.00 Add to cartThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Prize joins a leading expert on the global economy to present an incisive narrative of the risks and opportunities that are emerging as the balance of power sh… [more below]
- Author: Yergin, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 02 2002
- ISBN10: 068483569X
- 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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The Origin of Wealth: The Radical Remaking of Economics and What It Means for Business and Society
$28.00 Add to cartOver 6.4 billion people participate in a $36.5 trillion global economy, designed and overseen by no one. How did this marvel of self-organized complexity evolve? How is wealth created within this syst
- Author: Beinhocker, Eric D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 14 2007
- ISBN10: 1422121038
- Language: English
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Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy
$26.60 Read moreFrom the acclaimed authors of Capitalism without Capital, radical ideas for restoring prosperity in today’s intangible economy
The past two decades have witnessed sluggish economic growth, mounting in- Author: Haskel, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0691236038
- 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
$36.99 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
