Economic History
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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000
$25.00 Add to cartAbout national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "… [more below]
- Author: Kennedy, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: January 15 1989
- ISBN10: 0679720197
- Language: English
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Permanent Distortion: How the Financial Markets Abandoned the Real Economy Forever
$30.00 Read moreA riveting exposé of a permanent financial dystopia, its causes, and real-world consequences It is abundantly clear that our world is divided into two very different economies. The real one, for the… [more below]
- Author: Prins, Nomi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1541789067
- Language: English
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The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
$21.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – An “outstanding new intellectual biography of John Maynard Keynes [that moves] swiftly along currents of lucidity and wit” (The New York Times), illuminating the world of t… [more below]
- Author: Carter, Zachary D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0525509054
- Language: English
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Principios Para Enfrentarse Al Nuevo Orden Mundial
$28.95 Add to cartUna gu?a pr?ctica para prepararse para el futuro a partir del estudio del pasado
Los tiempos que vienen ser?n radicalmente diferentes a los que hemos vivido hasta ahora, pero se parecer?n mucho a otras
- Author: Dalio, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: December 20 2022
- ISBN10: 6075693653
- Language: Spanish
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The Ordinary Business of Life: A History of Economics from the Ancient World to the Twenty-First Century – New Edition
$27.95 Add to cartThe classic history of economic thought through the ages–now fully updated and expanded
Hesiod defined the basic economic problem as one of scarce resources, a view still held by economists today. Di- Author: Backhouse, Roger E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0691252017
- Language: English
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The Age of Capital: 1848-1875
$19.00 Add to cartIn this book, Eric Hobsbawm chronicles the events and trends that led to the triumph of private enterprise and its exponents in the years between 1848 and 1875. Along with Hobsbawm’s other
volumes, th… [more below]- Series: History of the Modern World
- Author: Hobsbawm, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 26 1996
- ISBN10: 0679772545
- Language: English
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Kentucky’s Lost Bourbon Distilleries
$23.99 Read moreKentucky bourbon is world-renowned, and the distilling of this corn-based liquor has deep roots in almost every corner of the state. Hundreds of distilleries dotted the landscape, beginning with the e… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Scott, Berkeley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1467109908
- Language: English
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A Short History of Financial Euphoria
$17.00 Add to cartThe world-renowned economist offers “dourly irreverent analyses of financial debacle from the tulip craze of the seventeenth century to the recent plague of junk bonds.” —The Atlantic.
With incompara- Author: Galbraith, John Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0140238565
- Language: English
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Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – When did America give up on fairness? The author of Fantasyland tells the epic history of how America decided that big business gets whatever it wants, only the rich get ri… [more below]
- Author: Andersen, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 198480135X
- Language: English
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The Economy of Cities
$17.00 Add to cartIn this book, Jane Jacobs, building on the work of her debut, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, investigates the delicate way cities balance the interplay between the domestic production of… [more below]
- Author: Jacobs, Jane
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 12 1970
- ISBN10: 039470584X
- Language: English
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The Money Culture
$17.99 Add to cartThe 1980s was the most outrageous and turbulent era in the financial market since the crash of ’29, not only on Wall Street but around the world. Michael Lewis, as a trainee at Salomon Brothers in New… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 14 2011
- ISBN10: 0393338657
- Language: English
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Visible Hand: A Wealth of Notions on the Miracle of the Market
$27.99 Read more“Matthew Hennessey’s Visible Hand is a wise reminder that free markets are essential to human flourishing.” –Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal Columnist
“Econ 101 should always be this much fun.” –L- Author: Hennessey, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1641772379
- Language: English
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The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-The-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History
$18.00 Read moreIn 2006, hedge fund manager John Paulson realized something few others suspected–that the housing market and the value of subprime mortgages were grossly inflated and headed for a major fall. Paulson… [more below]
- Author: Zuckerman, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0385529945
- Language: English
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The American Dream Is Not Dead: (But Populism Could Kill It)
$15.95 Read morePopulists on both sides of the political aisle routinely announce that the American Dream is dead. According to them, the game has been rigged by elites, workers can’t get ahead, wages have been stag
- Series: New Threats to Freedom
- Author: Strain, Michael R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 159947557X
- Language: English
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Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside Youtube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination
$30.00 Read moreThe gripping inside story of YouTube, the company that upended media, culture, industry, and democracy–by a leading tech journalist
Across the world, people watch more than a billion hours of video o- Author: Bergen, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0593296346
- Language: English
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Babylon’s Banksters: The Alchemy of Deep Physics, High Finance and Ancient Religion
$28.95 Add to cartIn this latest installment of his remarkable series of books of alternative science and history, Joseph P. Farrell outlines the consistent pattern and strategy of bankers in ancient and modern times,
- Author: Farrell, Joseph P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: June 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1932595791
- Language: English
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Adventurers: The Improbable Rise of the East India Company: 1550-1650
$35.00 Read moreThe unlikely beginnings of the East India Company–from Tudor origins and rivalry with the superior Dutch–to laying the groundwork for future British expansion
The East India Company was the largest- Author: Howarth, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 030025072X
- Language: English
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The Coming of the Railway: A New Global History, 1750-1850
$35.00 Read moreThe first global history of the epic early days of the iron railway
Railways, in simple wooden or stone form, have existed since prehistory. But from the 1750s onward the introduction of iron rails l- Author: Gwyn, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 0300267894
- Language: English
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Crash Landing: The Inside Story of How the World’s Biggest Companies Survived an Economy on the Brink
$30.00 Read moreA kaleidoscopic account of the financial carnage of the pandemic, revealing the fear, grit, and gambles that drove the economy’s winners and losers–from a leading business reporter
“A true masterwork- Author: Hoffman, Liz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0593239016
- Language: English
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Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
$0.00 Read moreLonglisted for the Porchlight Business Book Awards
“A smart and accessible cultural history.”-Los Angeles Times “A fantastic examination of what became the mall … envision[ing] a more meaningful pu- Author: Lange, Alexandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1635576024
- Language: English
