Economic History category: 3271 books
The Half Has Never Been Told
Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A groundbreaking, must-read history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of slaves
Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution -- the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so...
The Mind and the Market
Capitalism in Western Thought
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Capitalism has never been a subject for economists alone. Philosophers, politicians, poets and social scientists have debated the cultural, moral, and political effects of capitalism for centuries, and their claims have been many and diverse. The Mind and the Market is a remarkable history of how...
by Roger E Backhouse
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2002
A very clear, reliable and readable history of economic thought from the ancient world to the present day. From Homer to Marx to John Stuart Mill, Backhouse shows how to keep your Keynsians from your post-Keynsians and New Keynsians. A core book.
Broken Bargain
Bankers, Bailouts, and the Struggle to Tame Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
A history of major financial crises—and how taxpayers have been left with the bill†‹
In the 1930s, battered and humbled by the Great Depression, the U.S. financial sector struck a grand bargain with the federal government. Bankers gained a safety net in exchange for certain curbs on their...
The Lords of Creation
The History of America's 1 Percent
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
A “stimulating” account of the capitalists who changed America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, setting the stage for the 1929 crash and Great Depression (Kirkus Reviews).
In the decades following the Civil War, America entered an era of unprecedented corporate expansion, with...
A Counterfeiter's Paradise
The Wicked Lives and Surprising Adventures of Three Early American Moneymakers
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
"This tale of counterfeiting is a treat for everyone...a delightful history lesson...Admirable and altogether charming."
-The Washington Post
As Ben Tarnoff reminds us in this entertaining narrative history, get-rich-quick schemes are as old as America itself. Indeed, the speculative...
Railroads Triumphant
The Growth, Rejection, and Rebirth of a Vital American Force
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 1992
In 1789, when the First Congress met in New York City, the members traveled to the capital just as Roman senators two thousand years earlier had journeyed to Rome, by horse, at a pace of some five miles an hour. Indeed, if sea travel had improved dramatically since Caesar's time, overland travel was...
The Price of Liberty
Paying for America's Wars
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
In a bracing work of history, a leading international finance expert reveals how our national security depends on our financial security
More than two centuries ago, America's first secretary of the treasury, Alexander Hamilton, identified the Revolutionary War debt as a threat to the nation's...
by Ross B. Emmett
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2009
Over the last twenty years, Ross B. Emmett has explored the work of Frank H. Knight, the philosopher of the Chicago School of economics. Knight occupies a paradoxical place in the history of Chicago economics: vital to the tradition’s teaching of price theory and the twentieth-century re-articulation...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
The second volume of The Cambridge History of Capitalism provides an authoritative reference on the spread and impact of capitalism across the world, and the varieties of responses to it. Employing a wide geographical coverage and strong comparative outlook, a team of leading scholars explore the...
by John H. Wood
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
This book examines the controlling influences that drive macroeconomic policies in the United States. It addresses the history of the interests, ideas, and practices of monetary and fiscal policies in the United States.
A Concise History of International Finance
From Babylon to Bernanke
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Ever since the financial crisis of 2008, doubts have been raised about the future of capitalism. In this broad-ranging survey of financial capitalism from antiquity to the present, Larry Neal reveals the ways in which the financial innovations throughout history have increased trade and prosperity...
Borrowed Time
Two Centuries of Booms, Busts, and Bailouts at Citi
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
The disturbing, untold story of one of the largest financial institutions in the world, Citigroup—one of the " too big to fail" banks—from its founding in 1812 to its role in the 2008 financial crisis, and the many disasters in between.
During the 2008 financial crisis, Citi was...
The International Aluminium Cartel
The Business and Politics of a Cooperative Industrial Institution (1886-1978)
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Aluminium was one of most cartelised industries in the international economic panorama of the 20th century. Born following the discovery of electrolytic smelting process in 1886, this industry, even in its infancy, established a cartel which characterised its history until nearly 1980. Managers of...