Economic History category: 3271 books
Bitter Harvest
Antecedents and Consequences of Property Reforms in Postsocialist Poland
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Bitter Harvest, a historical ethnographic study, examines the property changes prompted by the early post-socialist neoliberal reforms designed to build capitalism in Poland. Historically, the book traces the halting but steady emergence of privatization and liberalization, even under socialism, and...
The Programme of the NSDAP
The National Socialist German Worker's Party and Its General Conceptions.
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
The Programme of the N.S.D.A.P. This book by Gottfried Feder was first published in May 1932 at the direct request of Adolf Hitler, for the coming Reichstag elections, and outlines the official National Socialist position on economic and social policy. The opening chapter describes the rise of the...
The First Serious Optimist
A. C. Pigou and the Birth of Welfare Economics
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
A groundbreaking intellectual biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential economists
The First Serious Optimist is an intellectual biography of the British economist A. C. Pigou (1877–1959), a founder of welfare economics and one of the twentieth century's most important...
The Price of Prosperity
Why Rich Nations Fail and How to Renew Them
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
In this bold history and manifesto, a former White House director of economic policy exposes the economic, political, and cultural cracks that wealthy nations face and makes the case for transforming those same vulnerabilities into sources of strength—and the foundation of a national renewal.
America...
by Sean Wilentz
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
One of our most eminent historians reminds us of the commanding role party politics has played in America’s enduring struggle against economic inequality.
“There are two keys to unlocking the secrets of American politics and American political history.” So begins The Politicians &...
Bad Samaritans
The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
"Lucid, deeply informed, and enlivened with striking illustrations." -Noam Chomsky
One economist has called Ha-Joon Chang "the most exciting thinker our profession has turned out in the past fifteen years." With Bad Samaritans, this provocative scholar bursts into the debate...
The New New Deal
The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
In a riveting account based on new documents and interviews with more than 400 sources on both sides of the aisle, award-winning reporter Michael Grunwald reveals the vivid story behind President Obama’s $800 billion stimulus bill, one of the most important and least understood pieces of legislation...
Postcapitalism
A Guide to Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
We know that our world is undergoing seismic change—but how can we emerge from the crisis a fairer, more equal society?
Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone profound changes—economic cycles that veer from boom to bust—from which it has always emerged transformed...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Intra-Asian trade is a major theme of recent writing on Asian economic history. From the second half of the nineteenth century, intra-Asian trade flows linked Asia into an integrated economic system, with reciprocal benefits for all participants. But although this was a network from which all gained,...
Borrow
The American Way of Debt
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
In this lively history of consumer debt in America, economic historian Louis Hyman demonstrates that today’s problems are not as new as we think.
Borrow examines how the rise of consumer borrowing—virtually unknown before the twentieth century—has altered our culture and economy. Starting...
The Invisible Hook
The Hidden Economics of Pirates
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Pack your cutlass and blunderbuss--it's time to go a-pirating! The Invisible Hook takes readers inside the wily world of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century pirates. With swashbuckling irreverence and devilish wit, Peter Leeson uncovers the hidden economics behind pirates' notorious, entertaining,...
Pop!
Why Bubbles Are Great For The Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Bubbles—from hot stocks in the 1920s to hot stocks in the 1990s—are much-lamented features of contemporary economic life. Time and again, American investors, seduced by the lures of quick money, new technologies, and excessive optimism, have shown a tendency to get carried away. Time and again,...
The Institutional Revolution
Measurement and the Economic Emergence of the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Few events in the history of humanity rival the Industrial Revolution. Following its onset in eighteenth-century Britain, sweeping changes in agriculture, manufacturing, transportation, and technology began to gain unstoppable momentum throughout Europe, North America, and eventually much of the world—with...
The Hegemony of Growth
The OECD and the Making of the Economic Growth Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
In modern society, economic growth is considered to be the primary goal pursued through policymaking. But when and how did this perception become widely adopted among social scientists, politicians and the general public? Focusing on the OECD, one of the least understood international organisations,...