Economic History

Looks At The Causes And Impact Of The Great Famines In Nineteenth Century IrelandCategories: Science & Math Nature & Ecology EnvironmentNatural Disa...

Brand New for 2018: an updated edition featuring a new afterword to mark the 10th anniversary of the financial crisisThe brilliantly reported New York Time...

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

Now in paperback: David Graeber’s “fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely” (Financial Times) histor...

from The Winner Of The First Lannan Prize For Cultural Freedom, A Bitingly Funny, Kaleidoscopic Vision Of The First World Through The Eyes Of The Third ed...

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...

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

Originally written by Campbell in the '40s-- in his pre-Bill Moyers days -- and famous as George Lucas' inspiration for "Star Wars," this book will likewise...

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

Introduction : Treading On Enchanted Ground -- Baltimore Looks West -- The Vast Machinery -- Network -- Default -- Riding The Rails -- The Soulless Corporat...

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...

Provides a sound theoretical and practical foundation for understanding the global economy in an era of shifting borders, restructuring economies, and reg...

There were dozens of books about Watergate, but only All the President's Men gave readers the full story, with all the drama and nuance and exclusive repor...

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...

Since its publication,Security Analysis by Graham and Dodd has been the investment bible and has sold more than 750,000 copies. Now the fifth edition of th...

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...

designed To Give Students An Exceptional Grounding In The Discipline, human Geography Is A Comprehensive And Engaging Introduction To The History, Philoso...

Since the 2008 financial crisis, the price of gold has skyrocketed from around $800 an ounce in August of that year to a peak of about $1700 an ounce. Fortu...

Who makes most money from the demand for cappuccinos early in the morning at Waterloo Station? Why is it impossible to get a foot on the property ladder? Ho...

'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...

21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership -Workbook (REV 07) by Maxwell, John C [Paperback (2007)]Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Governme...

The pivotal and troubling role of progressive-era economics in the shaping of modern American liberalism In Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

An eminent expert on Japanese culture draws on unparalleled access to Sony's archives and executives to craft a revelatory portrait of the passions and loy...

An insider’s view of the U.S. government’s response to the 2007–2009 global financial crisis, as recounted by the people who made the key decisions I...

From Civil Rights To Ferguson, Franchise Reveals The Untold History Of How Fast Food Became One Of The Greatest Generators Of Black Wealth In America. Often...