Economic History
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Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy
$35.00 Read moreONE OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL’S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2024
How inflation and deflation fears shape American democracy.
Many foundational moments in American economic history–the establishment of paper mon
- Author: Binder, Carola
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0226833097
- Language: English
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These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs — And Wrecks — America
$20.99 Add to cartA Wall Street Journal Bestseller
Pulitzer Prize—-winning and New York Times bestselling financial journalist Gretchen Morgenson and financial policy analyst Joshua Rosner investigate the insidious w- Author: Morgenson, Gretchen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1982191295
- Language: English
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How Economics Works
$25.00 Add to cartDiscover everything you need to know about Economics.
What is Economics? Why do consumers borrow and save? How do economic systems work? Money and investing can be daunting. This book covers all of t- Series: DK How Stuff Works
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 074409853X
- Language: English
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All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis
$19.00 Add to cartHailed as “the best business book of 2010” (Huffington Post), this New York Times bestseller about the 2008 financial crisis brings the devastation of the Great Recession to life.
As soon as the fina- Author: McLean, Bethany
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 30 2011
- ISBN10: 159184438X
- Language: English
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The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment Over 2,000 Years
$21.95 Add to cart“An extraordinary achievement.” –David Edgerton, Literary Review
“A remarkably researched, comprehensive, and indispensable book for everyone who wishes to understand how sugar and the sugar industry- Author: Bosma, Ulbe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0674299086
- Language: English
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Peak Human: What We Can Learn from History’s Greatest Civilizations
$35.99 Add to cartAll golden ages are marked by periods of spectacular cultural flourishing, scientific exploration, technological achievement and economic growth; yet no two are the same. Their beliefs, societies and … [more below]
- Author: Norberg, Johan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1838957294
- Language: English
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Golden State: The Making of California
$32.50 Add to cart“Superb. Hiltzik makes a compelling case that California is the heartbeat of our nation.”–Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of Silent Spring Revolution
From Pulitzer Prize winner Mic
- Author: Hiltzik, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 035853934X
- Language: English
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Cathedrals of Industry: Exploring the Factories and Infrastructure That Made America
$65.00 Add to cart“This book . . . documents better than any economic historian could some of the enormous changes our economy and our society have been going through.”
–From the foreword by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nob
- Author: Horowitz, Michael L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0789214989
- Language: English
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Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom /]Cby Grace Blakeley
$19.99 Add to cartIn the vein of The Shock Doctrine and Evil Geniuses, this timely and “galvanizing” (Naomi Klein, New York Times bestselling author) manifesto illustrates how corporate and political power brokers have… [more below]
- Author: Blakeley, Grace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1982180862
- Language: English
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Mellon vs. Churchill: The Untold Story of Treasury Titans at War
$32.00 Add to cartThe never-before-told story of the epic battle of wills between Andrew Mellon and Winston Churchill, as they debated the repayment of the enormous sums loaned by America to Great Britain during World … [more below]
- Author: Eicher, Jill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1639366423
- Language: English
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India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today
$25.00 Add to cartA provocative new account of how India moved relentlessly from its hope-filled founding in 1947 to the dramatic economic and democratic breakdowns of today.
When Indian leaders first took control of t
- Author: Mody, Ashoka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1503642011
- Language: English
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The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times
$29.95 Add to cartThe Long Twentieth Century traces the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Arrighi argues that capitalism has unfolded as a succession of “long centuri… [more below]
- Author: Arrighi, Giovanni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1844673049
- Language: English
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A Little History of Economics
$15.00 Add to cartAn accessible account of the history of economics through the ideas of great thinkers
Economics explains the world. For example, the fact that you’re holding this book in your hands puts you in a spe- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Kishtainy, Niall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0300283245
- Language: English
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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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