Economic History

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...

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...

Sociologist Stephen Klineberg Presents Fascinating And Groundbreaking Research That Shows How The City Of Houston Has Emerged As A Microcosm For America’s...

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...

This nineteenth-century study of crowd psychology and mass mania includes accounts of classic swindles, schemes, and scams on a grand scale. The Mississippi...

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...

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...

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...

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

Timely, compelling, and certain to be controversial--a deeply researched study that reveals how companies and policy makers are hindering innovation-led gr...

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...

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...

A New York Times bestsellerAmerica’s unique prosperity is based on its creation of a middle class. In the twentieth century, that middle class provided the...

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...

Albro Martin. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Business & Money EconomicsEconomic History HistoryUnited States Engineer...

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

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

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...

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

This startlingly original and highly readable volume adds a new richness and depth to an element of U.S. history that is all too often taken for granted. In...

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...

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

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

The greatest accomplishment of Western civilization is arguably the achievement of individual liberty through limits on the power of the state. In the war...

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 ...

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...

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...

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

Brewing Battles is the comprehensive story of the American brewing industry and its leading figures, from its colonial beginnings to the present. Although t...

Large scale problems require large scale solutions.Authored by the Dominant ClassCategories: Business & Money EconomicsEconomic History Politics &a...

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...

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...

'The Industrial Revolution marks the most fundamental transformation of human life the history of the world recorded in written documents'In no nation was t...