Economic History category: 3271 books
Intellectual Capital
Forty Years of the Nobel Prize in Economics
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
There is arguably no award more recognized in the academic and professional worlds than the Nobel Prize. The public pays attention to the prizes in the fields of economics, literature, and peace because their recipients are identified with particular ideas, concepts, or actions that often resonate...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Great Recession
An Unbiased Analysis of the Biggest Economic Crisis Since the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
The truth behind the causes and effects of America's economic downturn.
The Complete Idiot's Guide® to the Financial Crisis explains the root causes and connects the events and issues with the problems that have confronted Americans over the course of more than a year, giving readers an unvarnished,...
by Hazel Henderson, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 1989
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
Hazel Henderson evaluates the need for a broader definition of economic development, one which measures progress and prosperity by social as...
Oblivion or Utopia
The Prospects for Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
Oblivion or Utopia: the Prospects for Africa explains that most of the problems on the continent stem from the fact that, although the continent may be politically independent, it is not economically independent. Efforts to reverse the continent's continuing underdevelopment have failed to date, including...
The Empire of the St. Lawrence
A Study in Commerce and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
Originally published in 1937 as "The Commercial Empire of the St. Lawrence, 1760-1850" and re-issued in its present form in 1956, Donald Creighton's study of the St. Lawrence became an essential text in Canadian history courses. This, his first book, helped establish Creighton as the foremost...
Makers and Takers
How Wall Street Destroyed Main Street
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Is Wall Street bad for Main Street America?
In looking at the forces that brought our current administration to power one thing is clear: much of the population believes that our economic system is rigged to enrich the privileged elites at the expense of hard-working Americans. This is a belief...
A Changing Wind
Commerce and Conflict in Civil War Atlanta
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
In 1845, Atlanta was the last stop at the end of a railroad line, the home of just twelve families and three general stores. By the 1860s, it was a thriving Confederate city, second only to Richmond in importance. A Changing Wind is the first history to explore the experiences of Atlanta’s civilians...
The Material Atlantic
Clothing, Commerce, and Colonization in the Atlantic World, 1650–1800
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
In this wide-ranging account, Robert DuPlessis examines globally sourced textiles that by dramatically altering consumer behaviour, helped create new economies and societies in the early modern world. This deeply researched history of cloth and clothing offers new insights into trade patterns, consumer...
Institutions and European Trade
Merchant Guilds, 1000–1800
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
What was the role of merchant guilds in the medieval and early modern economy? Does their wide prevalence and long survival mean they were efficient institutions that benefited the whole economy? Or did merchant guilds simply offer an effective way for the rich and powerful to increase their wealth,...
The Cotton Plantation Remembered
An Egyptian Family Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Cotton made the fortune of the Fuda family, Egyptian landed gentry with peasant origins, during the second part of the nineteenth century. This story, narrated and photographed by a family member who has researched and documented various aspects of her own history, goes well beyond the family photo...
by Jane Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
In this eye-opening work of economic theory, Jane Jacobs argues that it is cities—not nations—that are the drivers of wealth. Challenging centuries of economic orthodoxy, in Cities and the Wealth of Nations the beloved author contends that healthy cities are constantly evolving to replace imported...
The Law of Civilization and Decay
An Essay on History
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Before Oswald Spengler, Arnold Toynbee and other historians of cultural rise and fall, there was Brooks Adams. And while today there are ever more historians adding their theories as to why civilizations collapse through such factors as military invasion, over-taxation, or ecological shifts, most...
by Ratan Lal Basu
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
This collection of articles gives a broad idea about economic concepts of Kautliya's Arthasastra (circa 300 B. C.), Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Classical and Neoclassical Economists, Mahatma Gandhi, John Maynard Keynes and post Keynesian Economists
Can It Happen Again?
Essays on Instability and Finance
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
In the winter of 1933, the American financial and economic system collapsed. Since then economists, policy makers and financial analysts throughout the world have been haunted by the question of whether "It" can happen again. In 2008 "It" very nearly happened again as banks and...