Economic History category: 3271 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
This thoroughly researched and clearly written compendium of available statistical information on China provides reliable information, careful explanations, useful guides to further research, and a full bibliography. An exhaustive compilation of national and provincial statistics on mainland China...
The End of the Economic Miracle
Appearance and Reality in Economic Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Originally published in 1971, this report presents Dr Jánossy’s attempt to demonstrate that all post-war economic ‘miracles’ lasted only until production levels reached the levels they should have done had there been no war and concludes that economic development is extremely consistent. Jánossy...
Jump-Starting America
How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
The untold story of how America once created the most successful economy the world has ever seen and how we can do it again.
The American economy glitters on the outside, but the reality is quite different. Job opportunities and economic growth are increasingly concentrated in a few crowded...
Free Lunch
How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill)
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2007
The bestselling author of Perfectly Legal returns with a powerful new exposé
How does a strong and growing economy lend itself to job uncertainty, debt, bankruptcy, and economic fear for a vast number of Americans? Free Lunch provides answers to this great economic mystery of our time, revealing...
Seven Bad Ideas
How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
A bold indictment of some of our most accepted mainstream economic theories—why they’re wrong, and how they’ve been harming America and the world.
Budget deficits are bad. A strong dollar is good. Controlling inflation is paramount. Pay reflects greater worker skills. A deregulated free...
The Land of Enterprise
A Business History of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
This groundbreaking account of the development of American business from the colonial period to the present explains that the history of the United States can best be understood not as a search for freedom—but as a search for wealth and prosperity.
The Land of Enterprise charts the development...
Balance
The Economics of Great Powers from Ancient Rome to Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
In this groundbreaking book, two economists explain why economic imbalances cause civil collapse—and why America could be next.
From the Ming Dynasty to Ottoman Turkey to Imperial Spain, the Great Powers of the world emerged as the greatest economic, political, and military forces of their...
by Robert H. Frank
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Who was the greater economist--Adam Smith or Charles Darwin? The question seems absurd. Darwin, after all, was a naturalist, not an economist. But Robert Frank, New York Times economics columnist and best-selling author of The Economic Naturalist, predicts that within the next century Darwin will...
The Rise and Fall of American Growth
The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television transformed households and workplaces. But has that era of unprecedented growth come to...
Global Inequality
A New Approach for the Age of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Winner of the Bruno Kreisky Prize, Karl Renner Institut A Financial Times Best Economics Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of the Year A Livemint Best Book of the Year One of the world’s leading economists of inequality, Branko Milanovic presents a bold new account of the dynamics that drive...
Capitalism in America
A History
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
**From the legendary former Fed Chairman and the acclaimed Economist writer and historian, the full, epic story of America's evolution from a small patchwork of threadbare colonies to the most powerful engine of wealth and innovation the world has ever seen.
Shortlisted for the 2018 Financial...
The History of the Standard Oil Company
Briefer Version
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Muckrakers — a term coined in 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt — referred to American journalists, novelists and critics who, in the early 20th century, attempted to expose corruption in politics and the abuses of big business. One publication spearheading these exposés was McClures Magazine,...
by Professor Peter Tschmuck
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
The music industry is one of the most dynamic and fascinating business sectors today. Its business model has had to adapt and react to changing technologies that have impacted at every level from distribution to artist management. The Economics of Music provides a concise and rigorous presentation...
The Life and Political Economy of Lauchlin Currie
New Dealer, Presidential Advisor, and Development Economist
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 1990
Lauchlin Currie’s contribution to monetary theory and policies during the New Deal and in the postwar period when he became one of the most important economic advisors to several presidents of Colombia is the subject of this biography. Currie was a major economic advisor to president Franklin D....