Economic History

What Are The Grand Dynamics That Drive The Accumulation And Distribution Of Capital? Questions About The Long-term Evolution Of Inequality, The Concentratio...

A riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest political journalists of our generation American democracy is beset by a sense of cri...

Historian Edward Baptist Reveals How The Expansion Of Slavery In The First Eight Decades After American Independence Drove The Evolution And Modernization O...

It's Difficult Today To Imagine How America Survived The Great Depression--only Through The Stories Of The Common People Who Struggled During That Era Can W...

This Volume Recounts The Timeless Story Of Our Obsession With Gold. Mixing Myth, Legend, And Historical Fact, The Author Looks At The People, Places, And Ev...

How climate change ushered in the collapse of one of history’s mighty empires\In 1644, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity...

Review\"This exercise of historical assessment from a central participant is one that more policymakers should probably try. It allows readers to make judgm...

A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street’s most storied investment bank Wall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billio...

THE ESSENTIAL GALBRAITH includes key selections from the most important works of John Kenneth Galbraith, one of the most distinguished writers of our time -...

A Uniquely Personal Yet Deeply Informed Exploration Of The Hidden History Of Class In American Life From The Decks Of The Mayflower Straight Through To Dona...

We are living in the most reckless financial environment in recent history. Arcane credit derivative bets are now well into the tens of trillions. Accordin...

Global trade is of vital interest to citizens as well as policymakers, yet it is widely misunderstood. This compact exposition of the market forces underly...

Americans Have Disabled The Government's Ability To Solve Even Basic Problems, Making Us Vulnerable To The Most Dangerous Demagogue Ever To Pretend To The W...

Niall Ferguson Follows The Money To Tell The Human Story Behind The Evolution Of Finance, From Its Origins In Ancient Mesopotamia To The Latest Upheavals. T...

The real story of the crash began in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine and the SEC doesn't dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real es...

The Author Examines The Development Of Economics From Ancient Greece To The Modern Welfare State, Arguing That Its History Cannot Be Understood Apart From T...

In this much-anticipated book, a leading economist argues that many key problems of the American economy are due not to the flaws of capitalism or the inev...

It Has Been Fifty Years Since Japan Admitted Defeat And Accepted The Terms Of The Potsdam Declaration Following World War Ii. At The Time, Japan Was In Sham...

In Third Wave Capitalism, John Ehrenreich Documents The Emergence Of A New Stage In The History Of American Capitalism. Just As The Industrial Capitalism Of...

Since Alexis De Tocqueville, Restlessness Has Been Accepted As A Signature American Trait. Our Willingness To Move, Take Risks, And Adapt To Change Have Pro...

Jefferson's Warning And The Financial Aristocracy -- Other People's Oligarchs -- Wall Street Rising : 1980 -- Greed Is Good : The Takeover -- The Best Deal ...

This Surprising Narrative Goes Back More Than Twenty Years To Reveal, In Rich, Anecdotal Detail, How Wall Street, The Mortgage Industry, And The Government ...

In December 2008, the world watched as master financier Bernard L. Madoff was taken away from his posh Manhattan apartment in handcuffs, accused of swindli...

Amity Shlaes, author of The Forgotten Man, delivers a brilliant and provocative reexamination of America’s thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge, and the d...

Michael Lewis. Business Week Best Business BooksCategories: Business & Money InvestingBonds

Windfall: Viola MacMillan and Her Notorious Mining ScandalCategories: History WorldWomen in History

Partha Dasgupta's Very Short Introduction To Economics Is An Up-to-date, Intelligible Introduction To How Economics Uncovers And Explains The Processes That...

The New York Times Bestselling Author Of The Rational Optimist And Genome Returns With A Fascinating, Brilliant Argument For Evolution That Definitively Dis...

collected Here, The Massey Lectures From Legendary Novelist Margaret Atwood Investigate The Highly Topical Subject Of Debt. She Doesn’t Talk About High Fi...

wall Street Is The Stuff Of Legend And A Source Of Nightmares, A Force So Powerful In American Society—and, Indeed, In World Economics And Culture—that It...

the Great Inflation In The 1960s And 1970s, Notes Award-winning Columnist Robert J. Samuelson, Played A Crucial Role In Transforming American Politics, Ec...

In Killing the Planet: How A Financial Cartel Doomed Mankind, best-selling authors Rodney Howard-Browne and Paul L. Williams investigate the true motives an...

Introduction: It Didn't Have To Be This Way -- Pt. 1. Warnings Ignored -- Ch. 1. A Science Of Human Action -- Ch. 2. Looking At Today And Dreading Tomorrow ...

Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting...

Exiles In Indian Country Weaves Together The Biographies Of Three Men Who Cast Their Fortunes With The Western Fur Trade In The First Quarter Of The Ninetee...

Winner Of The 2009 Warwick Prize For Writing Only A Crisis - Actual Or Perceived - Produces Real Change. When That Crisis Occurs, The Actions That Are Taken...

'A classic' - Simon Kuper, Financial TimesThe five laws that confirm our worst fears: stupid people can and do rule the world.Since time immemorial, a powe...

The crisis exposed the contradiction of globalization itself: as economies have become more interconnected, regulators and governments have failed to keep ...

Something is profoundly wrong with the way we think about how we should live today. In Ill Fares The Land, Tony Judt, one of our leading historians and th...

Tim Harford. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 253-262) And Index.Categories: Business & Money Marketing & SalesConsumer Behavior

In his most widely appealing book yet, one of today's leading authors of popular anthropology looks at the intriguing history and peculiar nature of money...

By Charles Mackay ; With A Foreword By Andrew Tobias. Originally Published As: Memoirs Of Extraordinary Popular Delusions. London : R. Bentley, 1841. Includ...

Using A Wealth Of Examples Of Evolutionary Innovations, Vermeij Argues That Evolution And Economics Are One. Powerful Consumers And Producers Exercise Dispr...

Genesis. First Principles -- Patriotism And Profit -- The Acts Of The Founders -- Building With Other People's Money -- Golden Spike -- A Railroad Life: H.k...

By Ludwig Von Mises. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government Political ScienceHis...

Is Civilization Teetering On The Edge Of A Cliff? Or Are We Just Climbing Higher Than Ever? Most People Who Read The News Would Tell You That 2017 Is One Of...

This Introduction To Economics Explains And Enlarges Upon The Ten Most Important Principles. Students And Instructors Can Use The Internet To Explore And Ex...

Our Newest Nobel Prize-winning Economist Shows How Today's Crisis Parallels The Events That Caused The Great Depression And Explains What It Will Take To Av...