Economic History
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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 Add to cartThe 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
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Balance of Power: Central Banks and the Fate of Democracies
$25.00 Read moreCentral banks now stand between societies and collapse, but are they still democratic?
Two decades of financial crises have dramatically expanded central banks’ powers. In 2008, and then again in 202- Author: Monnet, Éric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0226834131
- Language: English
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The New World Economy: A Beginner’s Guide
$18.00 Add to cartWhat is blockchain? What is Bitcoin? How can central banks be instrumental in guiding a nation’s economy? What are the underlying causes of trade deficits? Do trade wars actually help the domestic eco… [more below]
- Author: Epping, Randy Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0525563202
- Language: English
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Founding Finance: How Debt, Speculation, Foreclosures, Protests, and Crackdowns Made Us a Nation
$15.95 Read moreRecent movements such as the Tea Party and anti-tax “constitutional conservatism” lay claim to the finance and taxation ideas of America’s founders, but how much do we really know about the dramatic c
- Series: Discovering America
- Author: Hogeland, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: February 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0292757530
- Language: English
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River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
$27.00 Read moreWinner of the SHEAR Book Prize
“Few books have captured the lived experience of slavery as powerfully.”
Honorable Mention, Avery O. Craven Award
–Ari Kelman, Times Literary Supplement “[One] of the mos- Author: Johnson, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 13 2017
- ISBN10: 0674975383
- Language: English
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How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy
$24.00 Read moreThe United States has two separate banking systems today–one serving the well-to-do and another exploiting everyone else. How the Other Half Banks contributes to the growing conversation on American
- Author: Baradaran, Mehrsa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 12 2018
- ISBN10: 0674983963
- Language: English
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Signals: The 27 Trends Defining the Future of the Global Economy
$35.00 Read moreDiscover the trends shaping our world, and explore the data underlying them, in this fascinating, visual journey.
In Signals, Visual Capitalist founder and editor-in-chief Jeff Desjardins and his team
- Author: Desjardins, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1119853176
- Language: English
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Pre-Industrial Societies: Anatomy of the Pre-Modern World
$25.00 Read moreEminent historian Patricia Crone defines the common features of a wide range of pre-industrial societies, from locations as seemingly disparate as the Mongol Empire and pre-Columbian America, to cultu… [more below]
- Author: Crone, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 11 2015
- ISBN10: 1780747411
- Language: English
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There’s No Free Lunch: 250 Economic Truths
$24.00 Read moreThe best way to defend the cause of human flourishing against this current onslaught of dangerous economic thinking is to relearn time-tested economic truths.
The verdict is in: Free enterprise has l- Author: Bahnsen, David L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1637580142
- Language: English
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What Was Neoliberalism?: Studies in the Most Recent Phase of Capitalism, 1973-2008
$22.95 Read moreEminent scholar-activist Neil Davidson’s brilliance is on full display in this posthumous work, a timely and prescient introduction to the neoliberal era.
While it is widely agreed that neoliberalism a
- Author: Davidson, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1642599158
- Language: English
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Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue: Tax Follies and Wisdom Through the Ages
$19.95 Add to cart- Author: Keen, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0691234027
- Language: English
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Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy
$28.00 Read more“This book’s great service is that it challenges us to consider the ways in which our institutions and systems, and the assumptions, positions and divisions that undergird them, leave us ill prepared … [more below]
- Author: Tooze, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0593297555
- Language: English
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Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
$18.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2021 Lionel Gelber Prize: A provocative look at how today’s trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers
“The authors weave a com- Author: Klein, Matthew C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 300261446
- Language: English
