Economic History category: 3271 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Hayek thought that all economic behavior (and by implication other human behavior) is based on fallible interpretations of what information is important and of its implications for the future. This epistemological idea animated not only his heterodox economic thought, but his ideal of the rule of...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
In addition to his groundbreaking contributions to pure economic theory, F. A. Hayek also closely examined the ways in which the knowledge of many individual market participants could culminate in an overall order of economic activity. His attempts to come to terms with the "knowledge problem"...
Right Here, Right Now
Politics and Leadership in the Age of Disruption
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
In this timely and insightful new book, Stephen J. Harper, Canada's 22nd Prime Minister, draws on a decade of experience as a G-7 leader to help leaders in business and government understand, adapt, and thrive in an age of unprecedented disruption.
The world is in flux. Disruptive technologies, ideas, and politicians are...
The Fight for $15
The Right Wage for a Working America
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
“Rolf shows that raising the minimum wage to $15 is both just and necessary, lest the American dream of middle class prosperity turn into a nightmare” (David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist).
Combining history, economics, and commonsense political wisdom, The Fight for...
by Matt Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
The definitive account of the tumultuous events that led to Ireland going broke in 2010
From the night the Irish government guaranteed the debts of Irish banks in September 2008 Ireland was on a one-way road to ruin.
In How Ireland Really Went Bust Matt Cooper, journalist, broadcaster...
Europe Didn't Work
Why We Left and How to Get the Best from Brexit
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
A timely and provocative account of why the euro has failed and why, as a result, the Union will unravel
Examining key economic indicators and assessing the situation across Europe, two British journalists assess why the euro has failed—and what will happen when the European Union completely...
Book Review: Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
Understand inequality in the modern world
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
It can be hard for busy professionals to find the time to read the latest books. Stay up to date in a fraction of the time with this concise guide.Thomas Piketty’s 2013 book Capital in the Twenty-First Century was an immediately bestseller in the UK and US, and has been widely praised by both economists...
Hayek's The Road to Serfdom
A Brief Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
The Road to Serfdom, F. A. Hayek’s 1944 warning against the dangers of government control, continues to influence politics more than seventy years after it was turned down by three American publishers and finally published by the University of Chicago Press. A classic work in political philosophy,...
The Fortunes of Liberalism
Essays on Austrian Economics and the Ideal of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
The Reagan and Thatcher "revolutions." The collapse of Eastern Europe dramatically captured in the tearing down of the Berlin Wall. F. A. Hayek, "grand old man of capitalism" and founder of the classical liberal, free-market revival which ignited and inspired these world events,...
Guerre, debiti e democrazia
Breve storia da Bismarck a oggi
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Dal Trattato di Versailles al Piano Marshall, la gestione del debito ha rappresentato da sempre uno dei motori fondamentali della politica europea. Sergio Romano, osservatore d'eccezione, ce ne mostra tutta la complessità nell'ultimo secolo e mezzo, evidenziando le interdipendenze tra i Paesi, l'importanza...
States and the Reemergence of Global Finance
From Bretton Woods to the 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Most accounts explain the postwar globalization of financial markets as a product of unstoppable technological and market forces. Drawing on extensive historical research, Eric Helleiner provides the first comprehensive political history of the phenomenon, one that details and explains the central...
The Great Money Binge
Spending Our Way to Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
According to George Melloan, the erosion of supply-side economic principles began shortly after Ronald Reagan left office, when his successor, George H.W. Bush, caved in to pressures from Congress and reneged on his campaign promise to not raise taxes. Bush, who once called supply-side “voodoo economics,”...
After the Fall
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
A fascinating up-to-date look at the roots of our financial crisis from the New York Times bestselling author Kevin Phillips Kevin Phillips’s Bad Money revealed the roots of the financial malignance that led to 2008’s devastating market meltdown, explaining how the financial sector hijacked the...
Greenspan's Fraud
How Two Decades of His Policies Have Undermined the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
For two decades Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has held reign over economic policy, outlasting three presidents. His long tenure has had a profound effect on global economics and on individuals. In this hard-hitting exposé, international bestselling author Ravi Batra takes sharp aim at Greenspan's...