Economic History
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Nothing Down for the 2000s: Dynamic New Wealth Strategies in Real Estate
$19.99 Add to cartWith more than a million copies in print, Robert Allen’s Nothing Down for the ’90s has probably helped more people achieve success in real estate than any book in history. Countless numbers of his rea… [more below]
- Author: Allen, Robert G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 22 2010
- ISBN10: 1451624255
- Language: English
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Paper Soldiers: How the Weaponization of the Dollar Changed the World Order
$30.00 Read more“Incisive debut treatise… Mohsin brings to the proceedings a reporter’s eye for story” — Publisher’s Weekly
From Bloomberg News reporter Saleha Mohsin, the untold story of how one of America’s most- Author: Mohsin, Saleha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0593539117
- Language: English
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Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises
$60.00 Add to cartRay Dalio, the legendary investor and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Principles–whose books have sold more than five million copies worldwide–shares his unique template for how debt crises … [more below]
- Series: Principles
- Author: Dalio, Ray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1668009293
- Language: English
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The Genesis Book: The Story of the People and Projects That Inspired Bitcoin
$29.00 Add to cartBitcoin did not appear out of nowhere. For decades prior to Satoshi Nakamoto’s invention, a diverse group of computer scientists, privacy activists, and heterodox economists tried to create a digital … [more below]
- Author: Van Wirdum, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 358
- Publish Date: January 03 2024
- ISBN10: 9798989132621
- Language: English
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World: 10th Anniversary Edition
$21.00 Add to cartThe 10th anniversary edition, with new chapters on the crash, Chimerica, and cryptocurrency
“[An] excellent, just in time guide to the history of finance and financial crisis.” —The Washington Post
“F- Author: Ferguson, Niall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0143116177
- Language: English
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Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History
$27.95 Add to cartA sweeping germ’s-eye view of history from human origins to global pandemics
Plagues upon the Earth is a monumental history of humans and their germs. Weaving together a grand narrative of global hist- Series: Princeton Economic History of the Western World
- Author: Harper, Kyle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0691230595
- Language: English
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The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
$27.00 Add to cart“Masterful . . . [A] painstakingly researched, astonishingly erudite study…Tooze has added his name to the roll call of top-class scholars of Nazism.” —Financial Times
An extraordinary mythology has… [more below]- Author: Tooze, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: March 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0143113208
- Language: English
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Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
$25.00 Add to cartA major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union–showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to its demise
“A deeply informed account of how the Soviet Union fell apart.”–Rodric Braithwaite, Fin- Author: Zubok, Vladislav M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0300268173
- Language: English
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Capital and Ideology
$39.95 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller
The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary
An NPR Best Book of the Year- Author: Piketty, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1104
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0674980824
- Language: English
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Talking to My Daughter About the Economy
$14.00 Add to cartA Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
In Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance minister and the author of the international bestseller Ad- Author: Varoufakis, Yanis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 21, 2019
- ISBN10: 0374538492
- Language: English
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Updated and Expanded
$34.99 Add to cartThe classic work on debt, now is a special tenth anniversary edition with a new introduction by Thomas Piketty
Before there was money, there was debt.
Every economics textbook says the same thing: Mon… [more below]- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 161219933X
- Language: English
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The Power of Money: How Governments and Banks Create Money and Help Us All Prosper
$30.00 Read moreWALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER
Money permeates our everyday lives–it literally makes the economic world go round–and yet confusion and controversy about money abound. In The Power of Money, economis- Author: Sheard, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 09, 2023
- ISBN10: 1637743157
- Language: English
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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger – Second Edition with a New Chapter by
$19.95 Add to cartIn April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in
- Author: Levinson, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0691170819
- Language: English
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The Capitalist Manifesto
$24.99 Read moreMarx and Engels were right when they observed in the Communist Manifesto that free markets had in a short time created greater prosperity and more technological innovation than all previous generation
- Author: Norberg, Johan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 1838957901
- Language: English
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The Wealth of Nations
$22.00 Add to cartAdam Smith’s masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capitali
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Smith, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1184
- Publish Date: November 14 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783369
- Language: English
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The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism
$32.00 Read moreHow Chile became home to the world’s most radical free-market experiment–and what its downfall suggests about the fate of neoliberalism around the globe
In The Chile Project, Sebastian Edwards tells- Author: Edwards, Sebastian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 069120862X
- Language: English
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The Barcode: How a Team Created One of the World’s Most Ubiquitous Technologies
$20.00 Add to cartTen billion or more times each day, electronic scanners read data encoded in black-and-white codes-barcodes-printed on or affixed to physical goods. The Barcode is the memoir from the team who helped
- Author: McEnroe, Paul V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
$35.00 Read moreAn instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from one of the world’s leading economists, offering a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever, but left us unsatisfie… [more below]
- Author: DeLong, J. Bradford
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 465019595
- Language: English
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Free to Obey: How the Nazis Invented Modern Management
$17.00 Add to cartWhat if the rules of modern capitalism were written during the Third Reich?
Reinhard Hn (1904-2000) was a commander of the SS, one of Nazi Germany’s most brilliant legal minds, and an archetype of t
- Author: Chapoutot, Johann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 1609458044
- Language: English
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Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System–And Themselves
$23.00 Add to cartBrand New for 2018: an updated edition featuring a new afterword to mark the 10th anniversary of the financial crisis
The brilliantly reported New York Times bestseller that goes behind the scenes of … [more below]- Author: Sorkin, Andrew Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0143118242
- Language: English
