Economic History category: 3271 books
Why Nations Fail
The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?
Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what...
It's Better Than It Looks
Reasons for Optimism in an Age of Fear
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
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 the worst years in recent memory. We're facing a series of deeply troubling, even existential problems: fascism, terrorism, environmental...
The Man Who Knew
The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
The definitive biography of the most important economic statesman of our time
Sebastian Mallaby's magisterial biography of Alan Greenspan, the product of over five years of research based on untrammeled access to his subject and his closest professional and personal intimates, brings into vivid...
Conquest, Tribute and Trade
How the Quest for Precious Metals Gave Birth to Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
This new edition of Conquest, Tribute and Trade: How the Quest for Precious Metals Gave Birth to Globalization (2016) has been revised to improve the clarity of the text, maps and end-notes. The book itself attempts to explain the birth of globalization in a new way and address three interrelated...
Debtors' Prison
The Politics of Austerity Versus Possibility
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
One of our foremost economic thinkers challenges a cherished tenet of today’s financial orthodoxy: that spending less, refusing to forgive debt, and shrinking government—“austerity”—is the solution to a persisting economic crisis like ours or Europe’s, now in its fifth year.
Since...
Bourgeois Equality
How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
There’s little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in the concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the bourgeoisie. The poorest of humanity, McCloskey shows, will soon...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Innovation and finance are in a symbiotic and twin-track relationship: a well-functioning financial system spurs innovation by identifying and funding stimulating entrepreneurial activities which trigger economic growth. Innovations also open up profitable opportunities for the financial system. These...
Lochner v. New York
Economic Regulation on Trial
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 1998
Lochner v. New York (1905), which pitted a conservative activist judiciary against a reform-minded legislature, remains one of the most important and most frequently cited cases in Supreme Court history. In this concise and readable guide, Paul Kens shows us why the case remains such an important...
by Hasse Ekstedt
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
The financial crash of 2008 showed the fragility of the financial system. A key question which surfaced in the aftermath of the global crisis was why economists were unable to predict this crash. This new volume argues that this failure can be attributed, at least in part, to the poor and inconsistent...
by Xiaochuan Zhou
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
This book is part of a series which makes available to English-speaking audiences the work of the individual Chinese economists who were the architects of China’s economic reform. The series provides an inside view of China’s economic reform, revealing the thinking of the reformers themselves,...
The Knowledge We Have Lost in Information
The History of Information in Modern Economics
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Information is a central concept in economics, and The Knowledge We Have Lost in Information explores its treatment in modern economics. The study of information, far from offering enlightenment, resulted in all matter of confusion for economists and the public. Philip Mirowski and Edward Nik-Khah...
Europe's Orphan
The Future of the Euro and the Politics of Debt - New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Originally conceived as part of a unifying vision for Europe, the euro is now viewed as a millstone around the neck of a continent crippled by vast debts, sluggish economies, and growing populist dissent. In Europe's Orphan, leading economic commentator Martin Sandbu presents a compelling defense...
by P. A. Brown, Editor, R. H. Tawney
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
This edition features a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index
CONTENTS (abridged list)
SECTION I THE EARLY ENGLISH MANOR AND BOROUGH
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SECTION VI FINANCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
Act abolishing Tenure by Knight Service, etc., 1660
Navigation Act, 1660
Proposals for Free Exportation...
Creditworthy
A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
The first consumer credit bureaus appeared in the 1870s and quickly amassed huge archives of deeply personal information. Today, the three leading credit bureaus are among the most powerful institutions in modern life—yet we know almost nothing about them. Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion are multi-billion-dollar...