Economic History category: 3271 books
Summary: Winner-Take-All Politics - Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson
How Washington Made the Rich Richer - and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Complete summary of Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson's book: "Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer - and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class".This summary of the ideas from Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson's book "Winner-Take-All Politics" argues that American politics are to...
Everything for Everyone
The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
The origins of the next radical economy is rooted in a tradition that has empowered people for centuries and is now making a comeback.
A new feudalism is on the rise. While monopolistic corporations feed their spoils to the rich, more and more of us are expected to live gig to gig. But, as...
The Escape Artists
How Obama's Team Fumbled the Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
FACING THE WORST ECONOMY SINCE THE 1930S, PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA HIRED A CRACK TEAM OF ESCAPE ARTISTS: financial wizards who had pulled off numerous white-knuckle getaways during the Clinton era and who were ready to do it all over again. Three years later, with the economy still in a rut, it’s...
White House Burning
The Founding Fathers, Our National Debt, and Why It Matters to You
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
America is mired in debt—more than $30,000 for every man, woman, and child. Bitter fighting over deficits, taxes, and spending bedevils Washington, D.C., even as partisan gridlock has brought the government to the brink of default. Yet the more politicians on both sides of the aisle rant and the...
Economic Compendium
10.000 Quotes On Business and Economics
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
Professional, comprehensive, useful, interesting book containing thoughts of great economists, business theorists, Nobel prize winners, and great business people, active entrepreneurs. Great literature for businessman, economists, students, journalists, and zillious researchers.
by Jane Jacobs, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1983
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1983
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
According to Jane Jacobs the healthiest economic regions are those which have strong and innovative import-replacing cities of their own. The...
by Adam Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
Adam Smith’s masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capitalism. Written in clear and incisive prose, The Wealth of Nations articulates the concepts indispensable...
The Political Economy of Pipelines
A Century of Comparative Institutional Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
With global demand for energy poised to increase by more than half in the next three decades, the supply of safe, reliable, and reasonably priced gas and oil will continue to be of fundamental importance to modern economies. Central to this supply are the pipelines that transport this energy. And...
by Richard H. Thaler
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
Get ready to change the way you think about economics.**
Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans—predictable, error-prone individuals. Misbehaving is...
by Random House
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Tobacco and sugar have made the history, the character, and the economy of Cuba. In this entertaining book, packed with fascinating lore, scholarship in its most humane form, and the flavor of Fernando Ortiz’s exceedingly civilized and humorous personality, the two important crops are seen from...
by Judith Stein
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Plutocrats
The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year
Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize
There has always been some gap between rich and poor in this country, but recently what it means to be rich has changed dramatically. Forget the 1 percent—Plutocrats proves that it is the wealthiest 0.1 percent...
Why Minsky Matters
An Introduction to the Work of a Maverick Economist
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Perhaps no economist was more vindicated by the global financial crisis than Hyman P. Minsky (1919–96). Although a handful of economists raised alarms as early as 2000, Minsky's warnings began a half-century earlier, with writings that set out a compelling theory of financial instability. Yet even...
Founder of Modern Economics: Paul A. Samuelson
Volume 1: Becoming Samuelson, 1915-1948
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017
Paul Samuelson was at the heart of a revolution in economics. He was "the foremost academic economist of the 20th century," according to the New York Times, and the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Economics. His work transformed the field of economics and helped give it the theoretical...