Economic History
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The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy
$30.00 Read moreThe Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year
The New York Times bestselling business journalist Christopher Leonard infiltrates one of America’s most mysterious institution
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER- Author: Leonard, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 11, 2022
- ISBN10: 1982166630
- 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 Fourth Industrial Revolution
$28.00 Add to cartWorld-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolution, which will funda… [more below]
- Author: Schwab, Klaus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1524758868
- Language: English
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The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It
$18.00 Add to cartWith the immediacy of today’s NASDAQ close and the timeless power of a Greek tragedy, The Quants is at once a masterpiece of explanatory journalism, a gripping tale of ambition and hubris, and an omin… [more below]
- Author: Patterson, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0307453383
- Language: English
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Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600–1900
$35.00 Add to cartCommerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern world
It was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial agents of European expa- Author: Bown, Stephen R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 07, 2010
- ISBN10: 0312616112
- Language: English
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Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
$35.00 Add to cartRichard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans–predictable, error-prone individuals. Misbehaving is his arresting, frequently hil
- Author: Thaler, Richard H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 11 2015
- ISBN10: 0393080943
- Language: English
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
$31.99 Add to cartWhen the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizarre feed… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0393072231
- 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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A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
$20.00 Add to cartA sweeping narrative history of world trade–from Sumer in 3000 BC to the firestorm over globalization today–that brilliantly explores trade’s colorful and contentious past and provides fresh insight
- Author: Bernstein, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0802144160
- 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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Economix: How Our Economy Works (and Doesn’t Work), in Words and Pictures
$23.99 Read moreEverybody’s talking about the economy, but how can we, the people, make sense of what Wall Street or Washington say they know? Read author Michael Goodwin and illustrator Dan E. Burr’s New York Times … [more below]
- Author: Goodwin, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0810988399
- 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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Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events
$21.95 Read moreFrom Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller, a groundbreaking account of how stories help drive economic events–and why financial panics can spread like ep
- Author: Shiller, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0691210268
- Language: English
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The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America’s Lost Promise of Economic Rights
$26.00 Add to cartAn urgent and galvanizing argument for an Economic Bill of Rights–and its potential to confer true freedom on all Americans.
Since the Founding, Americans have debated the true meaning of freedom. F- Author: Paul, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 12 2023
- ISBN10: 022679296X
- 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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India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today
$35.00 Add to cartA provocative new account of how India moved relentlessly from its hope-filled founding in 1947 to the dramatic economic and democratic breakdowns of today.
When Indian leaders first took control of t
- Author: Mody, Ashoka
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1503630056
- Language: English
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Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years’ War Over the American Dollar
$21.99 Add to cartMost Americans are familiar with the political history of the United States, but there is another history woven all through it, a largely forgotten history–the story of the money men. Acclaimed histo
- Series: Enterprise #0
- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0393330508
- Language: English
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Economics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartHere Partha Dasgupta, an internationally recognized authority in economics, presents readers with a solid introduction to its basic concepts, including efficiency, equity, sustainability, dynamic equi… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Dasgupta, Partha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 05 2007
- ISBN10: 0192853457
- Language: English
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Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises
$37.99 Add to cartIn the Eighth Edition of this classic text on the financial history of bubbles and crashes, Robert McCauley joins with Robert Aliber in building on Charles Kindleberger’s renowned work. McCauley draws
- Author: Aliber, Robert Z.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 425
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 303116007X
- 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
