Economic History
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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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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 Read moreForeign 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
$37.99 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
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The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Modern European Thought
$23.00 Add to cartCapitalism has never been a subject for economists alone. Philosophers, politicians, poets and social scientists have debated the cultural, moral, and political effects of capitalism for centuries, an… [more below]
- Author: Muller, Jerry Z.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 487
- Publish Date: November 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0385721668
- Language: English
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The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform
$38.00 Add to cartThe first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history
“Almost every page contains an eye-opening detail. . . . The Great Transformation evokes the multiple paths,- Author: Westad, Odd Arne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0300267088
- Language: English
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Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream
$25.00 Add to cartThe clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American Dream, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist behind The New York Times’s “The Morning” newsletter.… [more below]
- Author: Leonhardt, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0812983335
- Language: English
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The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century
$46.67 Read moreA panoramic global history of the nineteenth century
A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transiti- Series: America in the World #20
- Author: Osterhammel, J?rgen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1192
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0691169802
- Language: English
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Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America
$18.95 Add to cartAs Henry Hudson sailed up the broad river that would one day bear his name, he grew concerned that his Dutch patrons would be disappointed in his failure to find the fabled route to the Orient. What b… [more below]
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0393340023
- Language: English
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Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
$18.95 Read moreThe epic history of the “iron men in wooden boats” who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales. “To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme,” Herman Melville proclaimed,… [more below]
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393331571
- Language: English
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Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
$24.00 Add to cartHow can one European capital be responsible for most of the West’s intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century?
Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architect- Author: Cockett, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0300279361
- Language: English
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The Economics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
$27.99 Add to cart- Series: DK Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0593844114
- Language: English
