Economic History category: 3271 books
Shock of Gray
The Aging of the World's Population and How it Pits Young Against Old, Child Against Parent, Worker Against Boss, Company Against Rival, and Nation Against Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
The *New* Y**ork T**imes bestselling author of China,*** Inc***. reports on** the astounding economic and political ramifications of an aging world.
The world’s population is rapidly aging—by the year 2030, one billion people will be sixty-five or older. As the ratio of the old to the young...
Crisis
One Central Bank Governor & the Global Financial Collapse
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
An authoritative insider's perspective, this book penned by the governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand chronicles the global financial and economic meltdown. A well-researched and dynamic firsthand account, it captures the drama of the events—from the overheated markets of 2007 through the...
by F. A. Hayek
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
The Pure Theory of Capital, F. A. Hayek’s long-overlooked, little-understood volume, was his most detailed work in economic theory. Originally published in 1941 when fashionable economic thought had shifted to John Maynard Keynes, Hayek’s manifesto of capital theory is now available again for...
The Demographic Cliff
How to Survive and Prosper During the Great Deflation of 2014-2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Bestselling author and financial guru Harry Dent shows why we’re facing a “great deflation” after five years of desperate stimulus — and what to do about it now
Throughout his long career as an economic forecaster, Harry Dent has relied on a not-so-secret weapon: demographics. Studying...
by Tom Garvin
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
The 1950s was a decade of international economic recovery in the United States and most of Western Europe after the disasters of World War II. There was just one exception. The Irish economy actually contracted in those years, and over four hundred thousand people, out of a population of fewer than...
The Speculation Economy
How Finance Triumphed Over Industry
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2008
American companies once focused exclusively on providing the best products and services. But today, most corporations are obsessed with maximizing their stock prices, resulting in short-term thinking and the kind of cook-the-books corruption seen in the Enron and WorldCom scandals. How did this happen?...
by Julia C. Ott
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
The financial crisis of 2008 made Americans keenly aware of the impact Wall Street has on the economic well-being of the nation and its citizenry. Ott shows how the government, corporations, and financial institutions transformed stock investment from an elite to a mass practice at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Has Wal-Mart Found Its Soul?
A New Introduction to the National Bestseller The Wal-Mart Effect: A Penguin eSp ecial
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
The behind-the-scenes report on how Wal-Mart has become arguably the most powerful force for environmental change anywhere.
In his national bestseller The Wal-Mart Effect, award-winning journalist Charles Fishman penetrated the store’s once impenetrable wall of secrecy to chart Wal-Mart’s...
Inglorious Revolution
Political Institutions, Sovereign Debt, and Financial Underdevelopment in Imperial Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Nineteenth-century Brazil’s constitutional monarchy credibly committed to repay sovereign debt, borrowing repeatedly in international and domestic capital markets without default. Yet it failed to lay the institutional foundations that private financial markets needed to thrive. This study shows why...
American Default
The Untold Story of FDR, the Supreme Court, and the Battle over Gold
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
The untold story of how FDR did the unthinkable to save the American economy
The American economy is strong in large part because nobody believes that America would ever default on its debt. Yet in 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt did just that, when in a bid to pull the country out of depression,...
Capitalism
Money, Morals and Markets
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Capitalism has lifted millions out of poverty. Under its guiding hand, living standards throughout the Western world have been transformed. Further afield, the trail blazed by Japan is being followed by other emerging market countries across the globe, creating prosperity on a breathtaking scale....
by Paul Heyne
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
What makes economies work—or not work? This concise overview of the field’s great thinkers offers a wealth of information.
Paul Heyne, one of the nation’s best-selling economists, provides an accessible overview of the discipline of economics. Economic knowledge, he contends, is not complete...
Clash of Extremes
The Economic Origins of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Clash of Extremes takes on the reigning orthodoxy that the American Civil War was waged over high moral principles. Marc Egnal contends that economics, more than any other factor, moved the country to war in 1861.
Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary sources, Egnal shows that between...
The Great Deformation
The Corruption of Capitalism in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
A New York Times bestseller
The Great Deformation is a searing look at Washington's craven response to the recent myriad of financial crises and fiscal cliffs. It counters conventional wisdom with an eighty-year revisionist history of how the American state-especially the Federal Reserve-has...