Economic History category: 3271 books
Herbert Hoover in the White House
The Ordeal of the Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
“A deft, filled-out portrait of the thirty-first president…by far the best, most readable study of Herbert Hoover’s presidency to date” (Publishers Weekly) that draws on rare and intimate sources to show he was temperamentally unsuited for the job.
Herbert Clark Hoover was the thirty-first...
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy
or, How Capitalism Works--and How It Fails
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
In Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance minister and the author of the international bestseller Adults in the Room, pens a series of letters to his young daughter, educating her about the business, politics, and corruption of world economics.
Yanis...
The Founders and Finance
How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
In 1776 the U.S. owed huge sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens but, lacking the power to tax, had no means to repay them. This is the first book to tell the story of how foreign-born financial specialists—the immigrant founders Hamilton and Gallatin—solved the fiscal crisis and set the nation on a path to long-term economic prosperity.
American Empire
The Rise of a Global Power, the Democratic Revolution at Home, 1945-2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
A compelling look at the movements and developments that propelled America to world dominance
In this landmark work, acclaimed historian Joshua Freeman has created an epic portrait of a nation both galvanized by change and driven by conflict. Beginning in 1945, the economic juggernaut awakened...
Past Due
The End of Easy Money and the Renewal of the American Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
How Main Street was hit by—and might recover from—the financial crisis, by The New York Times's national economics correspondent
When the financial crisis struck in 2008, Main Street felt the blow just as hard as Wall Street. The New York Times national economics correspondent Peter S....
Rediscovering Growth
After the Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2013
The difficult economic climate in Europe and the United States since the financial crisis is set to continue as the New Normal, despite frantic efforts to stimulate growth. The long phase of expansion that lasted from the 1980s until 2008 was driven by easy money, cheap imports and confidence –...
Zero-Sum Future
American Power in an Age of Anxiety
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
With a new foreword on the revolutions in the Arab world and the euro crisis, one of the world’s most influential commentators on international affairs offers a stark warning about a gathering global political crisis.
From one of the world’s most influential commentators on international...
by Charles P. Kindleberger
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Originally published in 1987 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Marshall Plan, this fascinating collection of essays, from an eminent ‘insider’ to the Marshall Plan, combines economics, politics and history to provide authoritative and personal insights into the creation of one of the...
by John Kenneth Galbraith
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
In his memoirs, John Kenneth Galbraith recalls amusingly, even brilliantly, the important and low moments in his life, the men and women he met who were great, only interesting, entertaining or even absurd.
Galbraith studied agriculture in his native Canada and agricultural economics at UC-Berkeley....
The Son Also Rises
Surnames and the History of Social Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2014
How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does it influence our children? More than we wish to believe. While it has been argued that rigid class structures have eroded in favor of greater social equality, The Son Also Rises proves that movement on the social...
Elsewhere, U.S.A.
How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms, and Economic Anxiety
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Over the past three decades, our daily lives have changed slowly but dramatically. Boundaries between leisure and work, public space and private space, and home and office have blurred and become permeable. In Elsewhere, U.S.A., acclaimed sociologist Dalton Conley connects our day-to-day experiences...
by Richard Voorhees
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
What jobs did people have before the 20th century? "A word lover's feast, "The World's Oldest Professions" answers that question is sumptuous detail. The word “profession” comes from the verb “to profess,” from the idea that for a person to go into business, to attract customers...
Anti-Pluralism
The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
The Great Recession, institutional dysfunction, a growing divide between urban and rural prospects, and failed efforts to effectively address immigration have paved the way for a populist backlash that disrupts the postwar bargain between political elites and citizens. Whether today’s populism represents...
Between Monopoly and Free Trade
The English East India Company, 1600–1757
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
The English East India Company was one of the most powerful and enduring organizations in history. Between Monopoly and Free Trade locates the source of that success in the innovative policy by which the Company's Court of Directors granted employees the right to pursue their own commercial interests...