Economic History

In This Classic About Economics, Freedom, And The Relationship Between The Two, Milton And Rose Friedman Explain How Our Freedom Has Been Eroded And Our Pro...

Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in gover...

A Business Week, New York Times Business, and USA Today Bestseller "Ambitious and readable . . . an engaging introduction to the oddsmakers, whom Bernstein...

The #1 New York Times bestseller: a brilliant account—character-rich and darkly humorous—of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff. The Barnes &am...

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

The New York Times bestseller: A masterful account of today’s money culture, showing how the underpricing of risk leads to catastrophe. When it comes to...

A product of more than five years of research, Mallaby's magisterial biography of Alan Greenspan brings into focus the mysterious point where politics and t...

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

From The Legendary Former Fed Chairman And The Acclaimed Economist Writer And Historian, The Full, Epic Story Of America's Evolution From A Small Patchwork ...

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...

The World Is In Flux. Disruptive Technologies, Ideas, And Politicians Are Challenging Business Models, Norms, And Political Conventions Everywhere. How We, ...

Adam Smith wrote that man has an intrinsic "propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another." But how did trade evolve to the point where we...

Will there ever be another investing book like this? It's unlikely. University of Berkshire Hathaway is a remarkable retelling of the lessons, wisdom, and ...

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...

An internationally renowned palliative care physician offers guidance on living with a terminal illness. Based on research funded by the Soros Foundation an...

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...

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

From the author of the New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, a history of white male America and a scathing indictment of what it has c...

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

An Incendiary Examination Of Burnout In Millennials--the Cultural Shifts That Got Us Here, The Pressures That Sustain It, And The Need For Drastic ChangeCat...

The Former Chairman Of The Federal Reserve Documents His Rise From A Southern Youth To Ivy League Professorships Prior To The 2007 Housing Bubble Burst, Det...

Former Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson -- who was at the very epicenter of the crashing financial markets -- provides a startling, first- person acco...

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...

A Wall Street Journal Business Reporter Unveils The Story Of How Math Genius Tom Hayes, His Associates, And A Deeply Corrupt Banking System Ignited One Of T...

An accessible portrait of the Nazi war machine and its downfall traces the pivotal role of economics in every aspect of Nazi power, Hitler's views about the...

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

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...

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...

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...

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 Best-selling Author Of The Great Depression Ahead Explains How The Accelerating Retirement Of The Baby Boomer Generation Will Impact The Economy And How...

Having a good, stable job used to be the bedrock of the American Dream. Not anymore. In this richly detailed and eye-opening book, Rick Wartzman chronicle...

Revealing A History Of Mysterious Deaths, Shady Characters, And Moral And Political Tensions, Exposes The Inner Workings Of The Catholic Church To Trace How...

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...

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

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...

A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year * An Economist Book of the Year "A must-read for anyone wanting to better understand what has already happened h...

A sweeping, narrative history of Black wealth and the economic discrimination embedded in America’s financial system.The early 2020s will long be known as...

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

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...

In Late 2001, The Enron Corporation--a Darling Of The Financial World, A Company Whose Executives Were Friends Of Presidents And The Powerful--imploded Virt...

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

Japan To 1600 Surveys Japanese Historical Development From The First Evidence Of Human Habitation In The Archipelago To The Consolidation Of Political Power...

"A sweeping history that tracks the development of trade and industry across the world, from Ancient Rome to today. From the development of international tr...

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...

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

From Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, to Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes, to the top economic thought leaders of today, The Economics Book is the essential...

Capitalism has never been a subject for economists alone. Philosophers, politicians, poets and social scientists have debated the cultural, moral, and polit...