Economic History
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As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West
$22.95 Add to cart“In this masterly book, [Alfani] offers an insightful long-run perspective and fascinating lessons for the future. A must-read!”–Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century
A sweepi- Author: Alfani, Guido
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 069122711X
- Language: English
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Retirement Income Source: The Ultimate Guide to Eternal Income
$19.99 Add to cartRetirement Income Source(R) is revolutionizing the way Americans and their advisors plan and save for retirement!
Since its launch in 2019, Retirement Income Source(R) has been shattering many of the m
- Author: Scranton, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 9798891880931
- Language: English
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Covid Wars: America’s Struggle Over Public Health and Personal Freedom
$18.50 Add to cartA sweeping, deeply researched chronicle of the COVID-19 pandemic, weaving together science, politics, and personal freedoms.
Ronald Gruner, with the precision of a historian and the curiosity of a citi
- Author: Gruner, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 394
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1737823160
- Language: English
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Empty Vessel: The Story of the Global Economy in One Barge
$29.00 Add to cartThe rise of globalization and financialization as seen from a barge–one Swedish barge, to be exact, built in 1979
“The many-headed hydra of neoliberalism has found its chronicler.” –Sven Beckert, au- Author: Kumekawa, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0593801474
- Language: English
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Unprecedented Assault: How Big Government Unleashed America’s Socialist Left
$32.00 Read moreIncluded in National Review‘s “Books of 2024” List
America is now reaping what the federal government has sown for decades and the Biden administration cultivated over the last four years: an unpreced
- Author: Young, Jt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 9798891381292
- Language: English
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Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray
$22.95 Add to cartFrom the workings of financial markets to our response to the ecological crisis, economic theory shapes the world. But where do these ideas come from?
Ricardo’s Dream tells the fascinating story of Da
- Author: Dyer, Nat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: December 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1529225507
- Language: English
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The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
$22.50 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0226836746
- Language: English
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Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI
$36.00 Add to cartA Financial Times Most Anticipated Book of 2025
A sweeping, dramatic history of capitalism as seen through the eyes of its fiercest critics.
At a time when artificial intelligence, climate change, and- Author: Cassidy, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 374601089
- Language: English
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The Revolutionary Self: Social Change and the Emergence of the Modern Individual, 1770-1800
$35.00 Add to cartThe eighteenth century was a time of cultural friction: individuals began to assert greater independence and there was a new emphasis on social equality. In this surprising history, Lynn Hunt examines
- Author: Hunt, Lynn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1324079037
- Language: English
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Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United States
$27.00 Add to cartA leading economic historian traces the evolution of American capitalism from the colonial era to the present–and argues that we’ve reached a turning point that will define the era ahead.
“A monument- Author: Levy, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 944
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0812985184
- Language: English
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Global Economic History
$12.99 Add to cartWhy are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, global income differences were small, but disparities have grown dramatically since Columbus reached America. In this Very Short Introduction, Rob… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #282
- Author: Allen, Robert C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0199596654
- Language: English
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Taxes Have Consequences: An Income Tax History of the United States
$28.00 Add to cartAs seen on Kudlow on the FOX Business Network!
The definitive history of the effect of the income tax on the economy. Ever since 1913, when the United States first imposed the income tax via constitut- Author: Laffer, Arthur B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1637585640
- Language: English
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Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
$22.00 Add to cartWinner of the Pulitzer Prize
“Erudite, entertaining macroeconomic history of the lead-up to the Great Depression as seen through the careers of the West’s principal bankers . . . Spellbinding, insight- Author: Ahamed, Liaquat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: December 29 2009
- ISBN10: 0143116800
- Language: English
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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
$26.00 Add to cart“Although Reminiscences…was first published some seventy years ago, its take on crowd psychology and market timing is a s timely as last summer’s frenzy on the foreign exchange markets.”
—Worth mag… [more below]- Series: Wiley Investment Classics #31
- Author: Lefèvre, Edwin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0471770884
- Language: English
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The Economic Government of the World: 1933-2023
$30.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 1024
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 125033828X
- Language: English
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Uncertainty and Enterprise: Venturing Beyond the Known
$34.95 Add to cart- Author: Bhid?, Amar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: December 06 2024
- ISBN10: 197688357
- Language: English
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Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery
$35.00 Add to cartAn eye-opening rethinking of nineteenth-century American history that reveals the interdependence of the Northern industrial economy and Southern slave labor.
The industrializing North and the agricu- Author: Rockman, Seth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0226723453
- Language: English
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Money: The Unauthorized Biography–From Coinage to Cryptocurrencies
$19.00 Add to cartWhat is money, and how does it work? In this tour de force of political, cultural, and economic history, Felix Martin challenges nothing less than our conventional understanding of one of humankind’s
- Author: Martin, Felix
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0345803558
- Language: English
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Defending Globalization: Facts and Myths about the Global Economy and Its Fundamental Humanity
$25.00 Add to cartThe COVID-19 pandemic, war in Ukraine, simmering US-China tensions, and rising global populism have led to globalization facing renewed attention-and criticism-from politicians and pundits across the
- Author: Lincicome, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 526
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1964524679
- Language: English
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Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank
$29.99 Add to cartIn the years immediately after the Civil War, tens of thousands of former slaves deposited millions of dollars into the Freedman’s Bank. African Americans envisioned this new bank as a launching pad f
- Author: Edwards, Justene Hill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1324073853
- Language: English
