Economic History
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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
$13.90 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
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The Invention of Infinite Growth: How Economists Came to Believe a Dangerous Delusion
$32.50 Add to cartA history of how the pursuit of growth has kept us from creating a more sustainable and just world.
Most economists believe that growth is the surest path to better lives. This has proven to be one o- Author: Jones, Christopher F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 022672204X
- Language: English
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The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
$24.00 Add to cartOne of the twentieth century’s most important pieces of social and economic theory, highlighting the rise and reality of capitalism as it shaped our world
A limited Beacon Classics edition In this cla- Series: Beacon Classics
- Author: Polanyi, Karl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0807018821
- Language: English
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Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance
$34.99 Add to cartA bold, concise history of Western economic interventions in Africa, by the former director of the Centre of African Studies at the University of Cambridge
For centuries, Westerners have tried to “fi
- Author: Everill, Bronwen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1620979756
- Language: English
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The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History
$32.00 Read moreAn eye-opening history of taxation showing that battles over taxes have always really been battles over democracy itself
Americans have always fought over the meaning of freedom and equality. What is- Author: Williamson, Vanessa S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1541606116
- Language: English
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Violent Saviors: The West’s Conquest of the Rest
$34.00 Add to cartA celebrated economist argues that economic development is not really development unless everyone has the right to consent to their own progress
For centuries, the developed Western world has exploit- Author: Easterly, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1541675754
- Language: English
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Inflation
$19.95 Add to cartFrom an award-winning professor of economics, an accessible and comprehensive introduction to what causes, and what can address, increases in the cost of living.
Anyone who has balked at the price of- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Olney, Martha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0262553155
- Language: English
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The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind
$20.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 022684160X
- Language: English
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The Land Trap: A New History of the World’s Oldest Asset
$32.00 Add to cartHow the world’s oldest asset secretly shapes our modern economy
In The Land Trap, Mike Bird–The Economist‘s Wall Street editor–pulls back the curtain on how this ancient asset exerts outsize influen- Author: Bird, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0593719719
- Language: English
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The Hamilton Scheme: An Epic Tale of Money and Power in the American Founding
$22.00 Add to cart“William Hogeland is the best guide I have found to understanding how we today are, for good and evil, children of Alexander.” –J. Bradford DeLong, professor of economics at the University of Califor
- Author: Hogeland, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1250390362
- Language: English
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Capitalism: A Global History
$49.00 Add to cartA landmark event years in the making, a brilliant global narrative that unravels the defining story of the past thousand years of human history
No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisive- Author: Beckert, Sven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1344
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0735220832
- Language: English
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How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations
$35.00 Add to cartHow 1,000 years of global history show why technological and economic progress is often followed by stagnation and even collapse
In How Progress Ends, Carl Benedikt Frey challenges the conventional be- Author: Frey, Carl Benedikt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0691233071
- Language: English
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The World Under Capitalism: Observations on Economics, Politics, History, and Culture
$35.00 Add to cartBranko Milanovic is best known as one of the world’s leading experts on global inequality. But he is also an unusually wide-ranging and penetrating commentator on subjects across economics and beyond,… [more below]
- Author: Milanovic, Branko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1509567763
- Language: English
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The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity
$30.00 Add to cartTim Wu explores how today’s dominant platforms manipulate attention, extract wealth, and deepen inequality–urging us to recognize their influence and reclaim control to create a balanced economy that… [more below]
- Author: Wu, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0593321243
- Language: English
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The History of Money: A Story of Humanity, with a Foreword by Michael Lewis
$32.99 Add to cartIn this fresh, eye-opening global history, economist David McWilliams charts the relationship between humans and money–from clay tablets in Mesopotamia to cryptocurrency in Silicon Valley.
The story- Author: McWilliams, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1250408180
- Language: English
