Economic History
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Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
$19.99 Add to cart“Blending intellectual memoir, history, and economic and technological history, Varoufakis creates an intimate atmosphere that is a genuine pleasure to read … It’s hard to read this book and deny it… [more below]
- Author: Varoufakis, Yanis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1685891241
- Language: English
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Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
$19.99 Read moreLonglisted for the Porchlight Business Book Awards
“A smart and accessible cultural history.”-Los Angeles Times A portrait–by turns celebratory, skeptical, and surprisingly moving–of one of America- Author: Lange, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1639732055
- Language: English
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Capitalism and Freedom
$22.00 Add to cartOne of TIME magazine’s All-TIME 100 Best Nonfiction Books
One of Times Literary Supplement‘s 100 Most Influential Books Since the War
One of National Review‘s 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Centur… [more below]- Author: Friedman, Milton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 022673479X
- Language: English
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The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers
$22.00 Add to cartThe bestselling classic that examines the history of economic thought from Adam Smith to Karl Marx–“all the economic lore most general readers conceivably could want to know, served up with a flouris
- Author: Heilbroner, Robert L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 10, 1999
- ISBN10: 068486214X
- Language: English
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Broken Money: Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make it Better
$23.99 Add to cartA Comprehensive Overview of the Past, Present, and Future of Money
Broken Money explores the history of money through the lens of technology. Politics can affect things temporarily and locally, but tec
- Author: Alden, Lyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 538
- Publish Date: August 22, 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988666318
- Language: English
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The Undercover Economist, Revised and Updated Edition: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor – And Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car
$31.99 Add to cartWith over one million copies sold, The Undercover Economist has been hailed worldwide as a fantastic guide to the fundamental principles of economics. An economist’s version of The Way Things Work, th… [more below]
- Author: Harford, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0199926514
- Language: English
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The Wealth of Nations
$9.99 Read moreThe Wealth of Nations
It is symbolic that Adam Smith’s masterpiece of economic analysis, The Wealth of Nations, was first published in 1776, the same year as the Declaration of Independen
by Adam Smith- Author: Smith, Adam
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 1264
- Publish Date: March 04 2003
- ISBN10: 0553585975
- Language: English
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The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
$30.00 Add to cartA Financial Times Best Book of the Year
“A must-read, with key lessons for the future.”–Thomas Piketty A groundbreaking examination of austerity’s dark intellectual origins. For more than a centu- Author: Mattei, Clara E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 17 2022
- ISBN10: 022681839X
- Language: English
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The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
$21.00 Add to cart“Read this book. It explains so much about the moment…Beautiful, heartbreaking work.”
“A deep accounting of how America got to a point where a median white family has 13 times mor
–Ta-Nehisi Coates- Author: Baradaran, Mehrsa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 11, 2019
- ISBN10: 0674237471
- Language: English
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Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
$22.99 Add to cartAn instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from one of the world’s leading economists: this “magisterial history” offers a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than eve
- Author: DeLong, J. Bradford
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541604245
- Language: English
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The Economic Government of the World: 1933-2023
$45.00 Add to cartForeign Affairs Best Books of the Year (2023)
An epic history of the people and institutions that have built the global economy since the Great Depression. In this vivid landmark history, the distingu- Author: Daunton, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1024
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0374146411
- Language: English
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When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany
$18.99 Add to cartWhen Money Dies is the classic history of what happens when a nation’s currency depreciates beyond recovery.In 1923, with its currency effectively worthless (the exchange rate in December of that year
- Author: Fergusson, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 12, 2010
- ISBN10: 1586489941
- Language: English
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The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
$19.99 Add to cart“A delightful and fascinating book filled with insight and wit, which will make you think twice and cheer up.” — Steven Pinker
In a bold and provocative interpretation of economic history, Matt Ridley
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Ridley, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 07, 2011
- ISBN10: 0061452068
- Language: English
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California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric–And What It Means for America’s Power Grid
$29.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
A revelatory, urgent narrative with national implications, exploring the decline o
2022 Winner of the Golden Poppy Award for Nonfiction (California Independent Booksellers Alliance)- Author: Blunt, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 059333065X
- Language: English
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This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
$23.95 Add to cartA comprehensive look at international financial crises that puts more recent economic meltdowns into perspective
Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashin- Author: Reinhart, Carmen M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 07 2011
- ISBN10: 0691152640
- Language: English
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Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War
$32.95 Read moreA Financial Times Best Book of the Year.
A sweeping and original history of how economists across two centuries have thought about inequality, told through portraits of six key figures. “How do you se- Author: Milanovic, Branko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 674264142
- Language: English
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El Libro de la Econom?a (the Economics Book)
$27.99 Add to cartGrandes ideas, explicaciones sencillas
Con un lenguaje claro, El libro de la econom?a ofrece concisas explicaciones que desbrozan la jerga acad?mica, esquemas que hacen sencillas las teor?as m?s compl- Series: Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 16 2016
- ISBN10: 1465460187
- Language: Spanish
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
$66.58 Add to cartA New York Times #1 Bestseller
A Wall Street Journal #1 Bestseller
A USA Today Bestseller
A Sunday Times Bestseller
A Guardian Best Book of the 21st Century
Winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Busin- Author: Piketty, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: April 15 2014
- ISBN10: 067443000X
- Language: English
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
$24.00 Add to cartA New York Times #1 Bestseller
An Amazon #1 Bestseller
A Wall Street Journal #1 Bestseller
A USA Today Bestseller
A Sunday Times Bestseller
A Guardian Best Book of the 21st Century
Winner of the Financial T- Author: Piketty, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: August 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0674979850
- Language: English
