Economic History
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The Secret History of Gold: Myth, Money, Politics, and Power
$29.95 Add to cartRevealing the sweeping saga of the world’s oldest–and most treasured–currency, this is the first definitive history of gold.
The Secret History of Gold tells the sparkling, eye-opening, and definiti- Author: Frisby, Dominic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 9798897100996
- Language: English
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1873: The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World
$32.00 Add to cartNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by Literary Hub
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lords of Finance, a magnificent and timely reckoning with the first truly global financial calamity- Author: Ahamed, Liaquat
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1594204179
- Language: English
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The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest
$20.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2023 Hayek Book Prize
Longlisted for the 2022 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award
A comprehensive and profoundly relevant history of interest from one of the world’s leading
- Author: Chancellor, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0802161782
- Language: English
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The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know about How Capital Works
$34.95 Add to cartThe world’s leading Marxist geographer and economist guides general readers through major concepts in capitalism and Marx’s masterwork
For decades, David Harvey has been teaching Marx’s work, particul- Author: Harvey, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1836742118
- Language: English
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The Banker Who Made America: Thomas Willing and the Rise of the American Financial Aristocracy, 1731-1821
$35.00 Add to cartIf you haven�t followed the money, chances are you don�t know the real story of America and its Revolution. Nothing gives a clearer insight into this history than the life of early Ameri… [more below]
- Author: Vague, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1509569081
- Language: English
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The First Ghetto: Venice and the Origins of Modern Antisemitism
$34.00 Add to cartFrom an acclaimed historian, the definitive story of the Venetian Ghetto and the emergence of modern antisemitism.
In the early sixteenth century, amidst the ruins of war and mounting religious hatre- Author: Lee, Alexander
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1541608771
- Language: English
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Peak Human: What We Can Learn from History’s Greatest Civilizations
$23.99 Add to cart“Could a history book be more timely?” —The Economist
“Norberg is a prophet of anti-pessimism.” —The Guardian Golden ages are marked by periods of spectacular cultural flourishing, scientific explo- Author: Norberg, Johan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 180546387X
- Language: English
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Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York
$32.00 Add to cartHow the rise of Wall Street in the 1980s lured a generation of young upstarts to New York, unleashing a political and cultural transformation whose national repercussions are still felt today.
Yuppies- Author: Gottlieb, Dylan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 067424897X
- Language: English
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Against Money
$30.00 Add to cartA powerful deconstruction of humanity’s most influential invention, from the acclaimed economists J. W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev.
Money is everywhere in our daily lives. It lurks in the swipe of a card- Author: Mason, J. W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 07 2026
- ISBN10: 0226842533
- Language: English
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House of Fidelity: The Rise of the Johnson Dynasty and the Company That Changed American Investing
$32.50 Add to cartThe gripping, definitive account of the private family behind one of the most powerful financial institutions in the world.
When Edward C. Johnson 2d founded Fidelity in 1946, investing was a pursuit- Author: Baer, Justin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1538766957
- Language: English
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How to Get Rich in American History: 300 Years of Financial Advice That Worked (& Didn’t)
$32.00 Add to cartIn richly told stories and wild self-experiments, historian Joseph Moore tests history’s best and worst financial advice to find what worked, what didn’t, and why everyday people can still get ahead–
- Author: Moore Phd, Joseph S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 0063464586
- Language: English
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Beyond Steel: Pittsburgh and the Economics of Transformation
$27.95 Add to cartLearning from one Rust Belt city’s postindustrial transition
While Pittsburgh is sometimes held up as a successful example of urban reinvention in the era after heavy industry (think “eds and meds”),
- Author: Briem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1606355023
- Language: English
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The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World
$33.99 Add to cartToday, a vast majority of us live under the economic system called capitalism–it touches almost every aspect of our lives, and most people alive have never known another. Yet, a cursory look at the w
- Author: Jackson, Trevor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1324106875
- Language: English
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Recession: The Real Reasons Economies Shrink and What to Do about It
$30.00 Add to cartFrom a top economist, the real explanation for why recessions start, how long they last, and how to avoid them in the first place.
What causes a recession? Do recessions end on their own, or do they- Author: Goodspeed, Tyler Beck
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 1541704940
- Language: English
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Economics: The Economist Guide
$18.00 Add to cartThe definitive Economist guide to the world of economics
Economics. Sometime called the “dismal science”, it’s a discipline and topic that’s often seen as dull; mysterious at best. And yet it’s crucia- Author: Coggan, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 180522218X
- Language: English
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The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
$19.95 Add to cartHow only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world history
Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To- Series: Princeton Classics
- Author: Scheidel, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0691271844
- Language: English
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds: Vol.1-3
$20.40 Add to cartExtraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a study of crowd psychology by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay. The subjects of Mackay’s debunking include witchcraft, alchemy, crusades… [more below]
- Author: MacKay, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 404
- Publish Date: December 14 2020
- ISBN10: 8027338654
- Language: English
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Gimme a Crisis: In the Room with Global Banker Rick Waugh
$28.50 Add to cartBestselling author Howard Green profiles former Scotiabank CEO Rick Waugh and sketches an unprecedented and up-close picture of what it is like to run a global bank, often during financial chaos, whil… [more below]
- Author: Green, Howard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 103780144X
- Language: English
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Blood and Treasure: The Economics of Conflict from the Vikings to the Modern Era
$32.00 Add to cartA history of the economics of warfare from the Viking Age to our current era, revealing how armed conflict has influenced world power.
Wars are expensive, both in human terms and monetary ones. But wh- Author: Weldon, Duncan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 9798897100309
- Language: English
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The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years
$19.99 Add to cartIn this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs. Drawing
- Author: Amrith, Sunil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1324111275
- Language: English
