Economic History category: 3271 books
A Just and Generous Nation
Abraham Lincoln and the Fight for American Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
In A Just and Generous Nation, the eminent historian Harold Holzer and the noted economist Norton Garfinkle present a groundbreaking new account of the beliefs that inspired our sixteenth president to go to war when the Southern states seceded from the Union. Rather than a commitment to eradicating...
by Ben S. Bernanke
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
**A New York Times Bestseller
“A fascinating account of the effort to save the world from another [Great Depression]. . . . Humanity should be grateful.”—Financial Times**
In 2006, Ben S. Bernanke was appointed chair of the Federal Reserve, the unexpected apex of a personal journey...
by Ben S. Bernanke
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2013
In 2012, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, gave a series of lectures about the Federal Reserve and the 2008 financial crisis, as part of a course at George Washington University on the role of the Federal Reserve in the economy. In this unusual event, Bernanke revealed important...
The Anatomy of Inequality
Its Social and Economic Origins- and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
“Virtually all human societies are marked by inequality, at a level that surpasses what could be expected from normal differences in individuals’ capabilities alone.”
So begins this new approach to the greatest social ill of our time, and nearly every other era. From a country with one...
Too Big to Fail
The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Brand New for 2018: an updated edition featuring a new afterword to mark the 10th anniversary of the financial crisis
The brilliantly reported New York Times bestseller that goes behind the scenes of the financial crisis on Wall Street and in Washington to give the definitive account of the...
Reckless Endangerment
How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011
One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year
The New York Times's Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist reveals how the financial meltdown emerged from the toxic interplay of Washington, Wall Street, and corrupt mortgage lenders
In Reckless...
by Thomas Piketty
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
The main driver of inequality—returns on capital that exceed the rate of economic growth—is again threatening to generate extreme discontent and undermine democratic values. Thomas Piketty’s findings in this ambitious, original, rigorous work will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality.
by Roger Lowenstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
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The roots of the mortgage bubble and the story of the Wall Street collapse-and the government's unprecedented response-from our most trusted business journalist.
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I.O.U.
Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
For most people, the reasons for the sudden collapse of our economy still remain obscure. I.O.U. is the story of how we came to experience such a complete financial disaster, starting with the magical proliferation of credit that led to an explosion of lending on the global and local landscapes of...
The Fix
How Countries Use Crises to Solve the World's Worst Problems
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
We all know the bad news. Our economies are stagnant. Wages are flat and income inequality keeps rising. The Middle East is burning and extremism is spreading. Frightened voters are embracing populist outsiders and angry nationalists. And no wonder: we are living in an age of unprecedented, irreversible...
Bad Money
The Inexcusable Failure of American Finance: An Update to Bad Money (A Penguin Group eSpecial from Penguin Books)
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
In his acclaimed book American Theocracy, Kevin Phillips warned of the perilous interaction of debt, financial recklessness, and the spiking cost (and growing scarcity) of oil- warnings that are proving to be frighteningly accurate. Now, in his most significant and timely book yet, Phillips takes...
The Soulful Science
What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters - Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
For many, Thomas Carlyle's put-down of economics as "the dismal science" rings true--especially in the aftermath of the crash of 2008. But Diane Coyle argues that economics today is more soulful than dismal, a more practical and human science than ever before. The Soulful Science describes...
by Juliet B. Schor, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
Juliet Schor critiques both the free-market and Keynesian paradigms of macroeconomics. She argues that in this day and age we need to construct...
by A. D. Thibeault
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
A full executive summary of The Real Crash: America's Coming Bankruptcy--How to Save Yourself and Your Country by Peter Schiff. This is not a chapter-by-chapter summary. Rather, the author takes an holistic approach, reorganizing and breaking down the content for easier understanding where necessary,...