Economic History
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Balance of Power: Central Banks and the Fate of Democracies
$25.00 Add to cartCentral 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 Read moreWhat 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
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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 Read moreUna 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 Read moreIn 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 Read moreThe 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
