Economic History
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A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961-2021
$45.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author, the fascinating story of U.S. economic policy from Kennedy to Biden–filled with lessons for today
In this book, Alan Blinder, one of the world’s most influ- Author: Blinder, Alan S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0691238383
- Language: English
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Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization
$32.50 Read moreA leading economic historian presents a new history of financial crises, showing how some led to greater globalization while others kept nations apart
“[A] fascinating book.”–Martin Wolf, Financial T- Author: James, Harold
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0300263392
- Language: English
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
$22.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A deeply engaging history of how European settlements in the post-Colombian Americas shaped the world–from the highly acclaimed author of 1491. – “Fascinating…Lively…A convi
- Author: Mann, Charles C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: July 24, 2012
- ISBN10: 0307278247
- Language: English
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No Free Lunch: Six Economic Lies You’ve Been Taught And Probably Believe
$16.99 Add to cart“A welcome addition to the literature striving to eradicate one of the greatest social ills humanity faces-basic economic illiteracy.” –Peter J. Boettke, University Professor of Economics and Philoso
- Author: Fuller, Caleb S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: October 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1956267123
- Language: English
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Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021
$17.00 Add to cartA chronicle of recent events that have shaken the world, from the author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century
“What makes this manifesto noteworthy is that it comes from . . . an economist who gaine- Author: Piketty, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0300268122
- Language: English
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The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the World Economy
$18.95 Read more‘The emerging rock-star of Europe’s anti-austerity uprising.’
‘A spirited book.’
Daily Telegraph
New Yorker In this remarkable and provocative book, Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece,- Series: Economic Controversies
- Author: Varoufakis, Yanis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 15, 2015
- ISBN10: 178360610X
- Language: English
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Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
$18.99 Add to cartNobel laureate Richard 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,
- Author: Thaler, Richard H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 14 2016
- ISBN10: 039335279X
- Language: English
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The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy
$19.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller from business journalist Christopher Leonard infiltrates one of America’s most mysterious institutions–the Federal Reserve–to show how its policies spearheaded by Chair
- Author: Leonard, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982166649
- Language: English
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Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle
$19.99 Add to cartThe authors of The Genius of Israel tells us what the world can learn from Israel’s meteoric economic success. Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel — a countr
- Author: Senor, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 07, 2011
- ISBN10: 0446541478
- Language: English
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
$18.99 Add to cartThe real story of the crash began in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn’t shine and the SEC doesn’t dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent im… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0393338827
- Language: English
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The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment Over 2,000 Years
$35.00 Add to cart“[A] tour de force of global history…Bosma has turned the humble sugar crystal into a mighty prism for understanding aspects of global history and the world in which we live.”–Los Angeles Review of
- Author: Bosma, Ulbe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0674279395
- Language: English
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The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest
$30.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2023 Hayek Book Prize
Longlisted for the 2022 Financial Times Business
Book of the Year AwardA comprehensive and profoundly relevant history of interest from one of the world’s leading f
- Author: Chancellor, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 0802160069
- Language: English
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A Little History of Economics
$15.00 Read moreA lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and through the ideas of great thinkers in the field
“A whistle-stop introduction to the great- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Kishtainy, Niall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 27 2018
- ISBN10: 030023452X
- Language: English
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These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs–And Wrecks–America
$30.00 Add to cartA Wall Street Journal Bestseller
Pulitzer Prize—-winning and New York Times bestselling financial journalist Gretchen Morgenson and financial policy analyst Joshua Rosner investigate the insidious w- Author: Morgenson, Gretchen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 25, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982191287
- Language: English
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
$35.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD
“A provocative read…There are few tomes that coherently map such broad economic histories as well as Mr. Dalio’s. Perhaps more unusuall- Series: Principles
- Author: Dalio, Ray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 30, 2021
- ISBN10: 1982160276
- Language: English
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The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind
$25.00 Add to cartThe surprising story of how declining marriage rates are driving many of the country’s biggest economic problems.
In The Two-Parent Privilege, Melissa S. Kearney makes a provocative, data-driven case- Author: Kearney, Melissa S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 0226817784
- Language: English
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When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firm
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR – ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST’s 50 NOTABLE WORKS OF NONFICTION
An explosive, deeply reported expos? of McKinsey & Company, the inte- Author: Bogdanich, Walt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0593081870
- Language: English
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Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality
$41.58 Add to cartFrom the Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times bestselling coauthor of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, candid reflections on the economist’s craft
When economist Angus Deato- Author: Deaton, Angus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0691247625
- Language: English
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Updated and Expanded
$26.99 Add to cartThe groundbreaking international best-seller that turns everything you think about money, debt, and society on its head–from the “brilliant, deeply original political thinker” David Graeber (Rebecca … [more below]
- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1612194192
- Language: English
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Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
$32.50 Add to cart“The most important book to read about the AI boom” (Wired): The “gripping” (New Yorker) true story of the first time machines came for human jobs–and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, th
- Author: Merchant, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0316487740
- Language: English
