Economic History category: 3271 books
The Fourth Revolution
The Global Race to Reinvent the State
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
From the bestselling authors of The Right Nation, a visionary argument that our current crisis in government is nothing less than the fourth radical transition in the history of the nation-state
Dysfunctional government: It’s become a cliché, and most of us are resigned to the fact that...
A Rabble of Dead Money
The Great Crash and the Global Depression: 19291939
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
The Great Crash of 1929 profoundly disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The breakneck growth of 1920s America--with its boom in automobiles, electricity, credit lines, radio, and movies--certainly presaged a serious recession by the decade's end, but...
Summary of Misbehaving
by Richard H. Thaler | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Summary of Misbehaving by Richard H. Thaler | Includes Analysis
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Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics is an introduction to behavioral economics and an account of Richard H. Thaler’s role in developing and popularizing the field.
The traditional...
The Predator State
How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
The cult of the free market has dominated economic policy-talk since the Reagan revolution of nearly thirty years ago. Tax cuts and small government, monetarism, balanced budgets, deregulation, and free trade are the core elements of this dogma, a dogma so successful that even many liberals accept...
The Growth Delusion
Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
A provocative critique of the pieties and fallacies of our obsession with economic growth
We live in a society in which a priesthood of economists, wielding impenetrable mathematical formulas, set the framework for public debate. Ultimately, it is the perceived health of the economy which determines...
Capitalism
Competition, Conflict, Crises
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Orthodox economics operates within a hypothesized world of perfect competition in which perfect consumers and firms act to bring about supposedly optimal outcomes. The discrepancies between this model and the reality it claims to address are then attributed to particular imperfections in reality itself....
Beating the Business Cycle
How to Predict and Profit From Turning Points in the Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2004
How can you make wise decisions about your company and your personal future when you have no idea where the economy is headed?
The answer is, you can’t. But you can learn how to accurately predict turns in the economy so that you can see the road ahead. And BEATING THE BUSINESS CYCLE shows you how.
In...
The Age of Selfishness
Ayn Rand, Morality, and the Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
“A sympathetic but deeply critical biography of [Ayn] Rand and the eventual role of libertarian philosophy in the recent financial crisis” (The New York Times Book Review).
Tracing the emergence of Ayn Rand’s philosophy of objectivism in the 1940s to her present-day influence, Darryl...
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
About national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" in W. Europe.
Freedom's Forge
How American Business Produced Victory in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SELECTED BY THE ECONOMIST AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
“A rambunctious book that is itself alive with the animal spirits of the marketplace.”—The Wall Street Journal
Freedom’s Forge reveals how two extraordinary American businessmen—General...
Utopia for Realists
How We Can Build the Ideal World
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of Europe's leading young thinkers shows how we can build an ideal world today.
"A more politically radical Malcolm Gladwell." --New York Times
After working all day at jobs we often dislike,...
by Steven Pressman
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
An introduction to the life, work and ideas of the people who have shaped the economic landscape from the sixteenth century to the present day. Now in a third edition, it considers how major economists might have viewed challenges such as the continuing economic slump, high unemployment and the sovereign...
The Great Boom 1950-2000
How a Generation of Americans Created the World's Most Prosperous Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
In The Great Boom, historian Robert Sobel tells the fascinating story of the last 50 years when American entrepreneurs, visionaries, and ordinary citizens transformed our depression and war-exhausted society into today's economic powerhouse.
As America's G.I.s returned home from World War II,...
Dynasties
Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World's Great Family Businesses
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2007
From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, a fascinating look at the crossroads of kin and coin
David S. Landes has earned a reputation as a brilliant writer and iconoclast among economic historians. In his latest acclaimed work, he takes a revealing...