Economic History
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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 Add to cartAn 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 Read more“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
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The Economic Consequences of the Peace
$18.00 Add to cartOne of the most important economic documents of the 20th century
John Maynard Keynes, at the time a rising young economist, abruptly resigned his position as adviser to the British delegation negotiat- Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin
- Author: Keynes, John Maynard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0140188053
- Language: English
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Wyoming: The Paradox of Plenty
$20.00 Add to cart“Our children and grandchildren leave to find a job and build their future elsewhere.”
In commodity dependent regions of the United States, it’s a common complaint. Whether the commodity is agricultura
- Author: Freudenthal, David D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: December 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1733489703
- Language: English
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The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America
$20.00 Add to cartRevealing a history that is deep, broad, and infuriating, The Black Tax casts a bold light on the racist practices long hidden in the shadows of America’s tax regimes.
American taxation is unfair, an- Author: Kahrl, Andrew W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: July 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0226840182
- Language: English
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Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth, and Power
$35.00 Add to cartIn a book that “sets a new standard in economic history” (Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist), acclaimed economic historian Victoria Bateman tells the story of how women made the world ri… [more below]
- Author: Bateman, Victoria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 154160606X
- Language: English
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C?3mo Funciona La Econom?-A (How Economics Works)
$27.99 Add to cartDescubre todo lo que necesitas saber sobre econom?a.
Qu? es la econom?a? Por qu? los consumidores ahorramos dinero o lo pedimos prestado? Qu? tipos de sistemas econ?micos existen? Entender todo lo r
- Series: DK How Stuff Works
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0593969758
- Language: Spanish
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The Economics Book
$21.99 Add to cartExplore the key milestones in the field of economics broken down clearly and simply with The Economics Book.
Learn about economics in this overview guide to the subject, which is brilliant for novices
- Series: DK Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0593847083
- Language: English
