Economic History
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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 Read moreIn 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 Read moreThe 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
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Trillion Dollar Triage: How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic—And Prevented Economic Disaster
$30.00 Read moreThe inside story, told with “insight, perspective, and stellar reporting,” of how an unassuming civil servant created trillions of dollars from thin air, combatted a public health crisis, and saved th
- Author: Timiraos, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0316272817
- Language: English
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How Economics Explains the World: A Short History of Humanity
$26.00 Add to cart“If you read just one book about economics, make it Andrew Leigh’s clear, insightful, and remarkable (and short) work.” –Claudia Goldin, recipient of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics and Henry Lee P
- Author: Leigh, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0063383780
- Language: English
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Doux Commerce? Reflexiones Sobre La Despolitizaci?n Economic?sta Liberal
$18.00 Add to cartEn esta obra de Alexandra Mart?nez C?nchica se halla expuesta, de manera sistem?tica e hist?ricamente fundada, una muy necesaria revisi?n pol?tica del liberalismo.
La mirada conservadora cl?sica de Ham… [more below]
- Author: Mart?nez C?nchica, Alejandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: August 29 2024
- ISBN10: 9798894806327
- Language: Spanish
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Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money
$40.00 Add to cartA unique illustrated exploration of the development of finance that combines data from every part of the world and covers five thousand years of history
From the emergence of money in the ancient wor- Author: Wojcik, Dariusz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0300253052
- Language: English
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Money and Promises: Seven Deals That Changed the World
$29.95 Read moreWhere did modern banking come from–and how does this history help us understand financial crises?
In the twelfth century, Pisa was a thriving metropolis, a powerhouse of global trade, and a city that- Author: Zannoni, Paolo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0231217137
- Language: English
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Tulipomania: The Story of the World’s Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused
$19.00 Add to cartA vivid narration of the history of the tulip, from its origins on the barren, windswept steppes of central Asia to its place of honor in the lush imperial gardens of Constantinople, to its starring m… [more below]
- Author: Dash, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 30 2001
- ISBN10: 060980765X
- Language: English
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How to Think Like an Economist: Great Economists Who Shaped the World and What They Can Teach Us
$24.00 Read moreCapturing the essence of history’s most influential economists in enjoyable and illuminating biographical sketches, this book shows how the great economic thinkers are still relevant today.
We live in- Series: How to Think
- Author: Mochrie, Robbie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 139940864X
- Language: English
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How to Make Money: An Ancient Guide to Wealth Management
$17.95 Add to cartAn enriching collection of classical writings about how ancient Romans made–and thought about–money
Ancient Romans liked money. But how did they make a living and sometimes even become rich? The Rom- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Grillo, Luca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0691239126
- Language: English
