Economic History category: 3271 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Many important economic and political debates today refer to the nature and the role of the State: should governments intervene in the economy and interfere with the operation of markets? In which occasions, and how? In order to better understand these questions and the controversies they have raised,...
by Keith Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
To understand business and its political, cultural, and economic context, it helps to view it historically, yet most business histories look no further back than the nineteenth century. The full sweep of business history actually begins much earlier, with the initial cities of Mesopotamia. In the...
The Pox of Liberty
How the Constitution Left Americans Rich, Free, and Prone to Infection
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
The United States is among the wealthiest nations in the world. But that wealth hasn't translated to a higher life expectancy, an area where the United States still ranks thirty-eighth—behind Cuba, Chile, Costa Rica, and Greece, among many others. Some fault the absence of universal health care...
Landlords and Tenants in Britain, 1440-1660
Tawney's Agrarian Problem Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
This volume revisits a classic book by a famous historian: R.H. Tawney's Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century (1912). Tawney's Agrarian Problem surveyed landlord-tenant relations in England between 1440 and 1660, the period of emergent capitalism and rapidly changing property relations that stands...
by Mervyn King
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
“Mervyn King may well have written the most important book to come out of the financial crisis. Agree or disagree, King’s visionary ideas deserve the attention of everyone from economics students to heads of state.” —Lawrence H. Summers
Something is wrong with our banking system. We...
What Would the Great Economists Do?
How Twelve Brilliant Minds Would Solve Today's Biggest Problems
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
A Newsweek "Best 50 Books of the Year (So Far)" Pick
"What Would the Great Economists Do? comes at the right time: a highly accessible and acute guide to thinking and learning from the men and woman whose work can inform and ultimately aid us in understanding the great national...
Billionaires' Ball
Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
The concentration of wealth today in such a small number of hands inevitably created a dynamic that led to freewheeling financial speculation—a dynamic that produced similarly disastrous results in the last great age of inequality, in the 1920s. Such concentrated economic power reverberates throughout...
Summary of The Rise and Fall of American Growth
by Robert J. Gordon | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Summary of The Rise and Fall of American Growth by Robert J. Gordon | Includes Analysis Preview: The Rise and Fall of American Growth is an analysis of American growth from 1870 to the present. It focuses especially on the unprecedented “special century” of 1870-1970....
States of Credit
Size, Power, and the Development of European Polities
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
States of Credit provides the first comprehensive look at the joint development of representative assemblies and public borrowing in Europe during the medieval and early modern eras. In this pioneering book, David Stasavage argues that unique advances in political representation allowed certain European...
The Commanding Heights
The Battle for the World Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2002
The Commanding Heights is about the most powerful political and economic force in the world today -- the epic struggle between government and the marketplace that has, over the last twenty years, turned the world upside down and dramatically transformed our lives. Now, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author...
The Formation of the Economic Thought of Karl Marx
1843 to Capital
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
A clear and compact guide to Marx’s road to Das Kapital
Ernest Mandel traces the development of Marx’s economic ideas from the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts to the completion of the Grundrisse. In a series of crystalline chapters, he provides an overview of subjects central to...
The Chicago School
How the University of Chicago Assembled the Thinkers Who Revolutionized Economics and Business
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
When Richard Nixon said We are all Keynesians now” in 1971, few could have predicted that the next three decades would result in a complete transformation of the global economic landscape. The transformation was led by a small, relatively obscure group within the University of Chicago’s business...
Escape from Empire
The Developing World's Journey through Heaven and Hell
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
A provocative view of economic growth in the Third World argues that the countries that have achieved steady economic growth—including future economic superpowers India and China—have done so because they have resisted the American ideology of free markets.
The American government has been...
The Terrible 10
A Century of Economic Folly
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The U.S. economy made impressive gains in the 20th century, but this progress makes it easy to forget a harsh reality: Americans were the victims of disastrous government policies that cost trillions of dollars in wasted resources, created mass unemployment, and kept millions of people in poverty...