Economic History
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Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World
$32.00 Read moreAn “incredibly timely” global history journeys from the Ukrainian steppe to the American prairie to show how grain built and toppled the world’s largest empires (Financial Times).
To understand the r- Author: Nelson, Scott Reynolds
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 22, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541646460
- Language: English
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The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society
$22.99 Add to cartIn this “lively and entertaining” history of ideas (Liaquat Ahamed, The New Yorker), New York Times editorial writer Binyamin Appelbaum tells the story of the people who sparked four decades of econom… [more below]
- Author: Appelbaum, Binyamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0316512346
- Language: English
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The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
$18.95 Add to cartA groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities in early America that “reminds us of the cold calculus at the intersection of slavery and capitalism” (Kirkus Reviews).
“Searing, revelatory, and vita… [more below]- Author: Berry, Daina Ramey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: December 26 2017
- ISBN10: 0807067148
- Language: English
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Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World
$19.99 Add to cartA San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller – An NPR Best Book of the Year
The New York Times‘s Global Economics Correspondent masterfully reveals how billionaires’ systematic plunder of the world–brazenly
- Author: Goodman, Peter S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0063078317
- Language: English
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The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class
$20.99 Read moreFollowing a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upwa… [more below]
- Author: Kotkin, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1641772840
- Language: English
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How Markets Fail: The Rise and Fall of Free Market Economics
$20.00 Add to cartIn How Markets Fail, veteran New Yorker staff writer John Cassidy offers a provocative take on the misguided economic thinking that produced the 2008 financial crisis–now with a new preface addressin
- Author: Cassidy, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1250781280
- Language: English
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Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism
$75.00 Add to cartThe unlikely story of how Americans canonized Adam Smith as the patron saint of free markets
Originally published in 1776, Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations was lauded by America’s founders as a land- Author: Liu, Glory M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 0691203814
- Language: English
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Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
$22.00 Add to cartFrom one of the nation’s preeminent experts on economic policy, a major reassessment of the foundations of modern economic thinking that explores the profound influence of an until-now unrecognized fo… [more below]
- Author: Friedman, Benjamin M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0593311094
- Language: English
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Wild Ride: A Short History of the Opening and Closing of the Chinese Economy
$16.99 Add to cartHow did China grow from an impoverished country to become the second largest economy in the world in just over four decades? And how did this economic miracle come to an end, as seems the case today? … [more below]
- Author: Stevenson-Yang, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 173942431X
- Language: English
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Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic
$25.00 Add to cartHow did past civilizations rise and fall? How rare is America’s experiment with a republic? With every crisis, is power being taken away from “the people” and transfered to the central government. Doe… [more below]
- Author: Federer, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: February 03 2011
- ISBN10: 0982710143
- Language: English
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Capitalism Without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy
$18.95 Add to cartEarly in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, and software, than i… [more below]
- Author: Haskel, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0691183295
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War
$27.95 Read moreHow America’s high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threat
In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previ- Series: Princeton Economic History of the Western World #70
- Author: Gordon, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: August 29 2017
- ISBN10: 0691175802
- Language: English
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The Great Crash 1929
$16.99 Add to cartJohn Kenneth Galbraith’s classic examination of the 1929 financial collapse.
Arguing that the 1929 stock market crash was precipitated by rampant speculation in the stock market, Galbraith notes that … [more below]
- Author: Galbraith, John Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0547248164
- Language: English
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Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics
$19.99 Add to cartAs the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore balance to economies gone awry. John Maynard Keynes, the mercurial Cambridge e… [more below]
- Author: Wapshott, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 10 2012
- ISBN10: 0393343634
- Language: English
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The Wealth of Nations: Books I-III
$17.00 Add to cartThe classic economic treatise that insipired Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century
The publication of The Wealth of Nations in 1776 coincided with America’s Declaration of Independence,
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Smith, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 570
- Publish Date: March 25 1982
- ISBN10: 0140432086
- Language: English
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The Pandemic Paradox: How the Covid Crisis Made Americans More Financially Secure
$58.33 Add to cartWhy most Americans’ finances improved during the worst economic contraction since the Great Depression–and the policy choices that made this possible
In March 2020, economic and social life across th- Author: Fulford, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0691245320
- Language: English
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A Declaration of Energy Independence: How Freedom from Foreign Oil Can Improve National Security, Our Economy, and the Environment
$27.95 Add to cartIf you’ve wondered about how America can break links between oil consumption, terrorism, and the war in Iraq, A Declaration of Energy Independence: How Freedom from Foreign Oil Can Improve National Se… [more below]
- Author: Hakes, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: July 20 2015
- ISBN10: 1119112516
- Language: English
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Boom and Bust
$21.95 Add to cart- Author: Quinn, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: October 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1108431658
- Language: English
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Guide to Investing in Gold & Silver: Protect Your Financial Future
$24.95 Add to cartMichael Maloney is widely recognized as a leading expert on monetary history, economics, economic cycles investing, and precious metals. He is CEO and founder of GoldSilver.com, one of the world’s lar… [more below]
- Author: Maloney, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1937832740
- Language: English
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Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
$21.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE
“An intelligent explanation of the mechanisms that prod
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018
ONE OF THE ECONOMIST’S BOOKS OF THE YEAR
A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS’ TOP BOOK- Author: Tooze, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 143110357
- Language: English
