Economic History
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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 Add to cartThe 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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Demand Transparency: Stop Wall Street Greed and Rising Taxes From Destroying Your Wealth
$36.00 Add to cartJason Mandel sheds light on how the big Wall Street firms manipulate circumstances to benefit themselves first, and their clients second. Mandel argues that investors must demand transparency and seek
- Author: Mandel, Jason G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1956914919
- 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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Tower of Basel: The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank That Runs the World
$21.99 Add to cartTower of Basel is the first investigative history of the world’s most secretive global financial institution. Based on extensive archival research in Switzerland, Britain, and the United States, and i… [more below]
- Author: LeBor, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 1610393813
- 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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Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America
$19.99 Add to cartFrom Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, the epic tale of the clash for supremacy between America’s railroad titans
In 1869, when the final spike was driven into the transcontinental railroad, few- Author: Hiltzik, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0358567122
- Language: English
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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
$24.95 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 Read moreWhen 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
$22.00 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
