Economic History category: 3271 books
The End of the Asian Century
War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World's Most Dynamic Region
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
An urgently needed “risk map” of the many dangers that could derail Asia’s growth and stability
Since Marco Polo, the West has waited for the “Asian Century.” Today, the world believes that Century has arrived. Yet from China’s slumping economy to war clouds over the South China...
by Mike Berry
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
This book revisits John Kenneth Galbraith's classic text The Affluent Society in the context of the background to, and causes of, the global economic crisis that erupted in 2008. Each chapter takes a major theme of Galbraith's book, distils his arguments, and then discusses to what extent they cast...
A Glance in the Rear View Mirror
Neoliberal Ideology From its Origins to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
As the financial crisis continues to shake the economy it has begun to expose cracks in the ideology long used to justify neoliberal policies. This informed and accessible primer drives a wedge into these cracks, allowing the non-expert to understand the flaws in the economic philosophy of the 1%.
by Daniel Cohen, Susan Emanuel
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
How violence, rather than peace, has historically accompanied prosperity; and why emerging nations seem poised to repeat the tragic history of the industrialized world.
by Walter Scheidel, Sitta von Reden
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The Ancient Economy introduces readers to the nature of economic life in the ancient world, and provides a valuable guide to scholarly debates on the subject. The book describes and examines the economic processes and fluctuations of the ancient world, and shows how these relate to political and social...
Boom and Bust Banking
The Causes and Cures of the Great Recession
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Exploring the forceful renewal of the boom-and-bust cycle after several decades of economic stability, this book is a research-based review of the factors that caused the 2008 recession. It offers cutting-edge diagnoses of the recession and prescriptions on how to boost the economy from leading economists. The...
Time for a Visible Hand
Lessons from the 2008 World Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2010
The financial crisis, which originated in developed country financial markets, quickly spread to developing countries. Governments and central banksthough taking many and costly measures were powerless to stop the global economic meltdown, as economies across the globe went into recession. The depth...
Land of the Fee
Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
The loans ordinary Americans take out to purchase homes and attend college often leave them in a sea of debt. As Devin Fergus explains in Land of the Fee, a not-insignificant portion of that debt comes in the form of predatory hidden fees attached to everyday transactions. Beginning in the 1980s,...
by Jean Pisani-Ferry
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The euro's life, while only slightly more than a decade long, has been riddled by a series of challenges and crises. The eruption of the Greek crisis in 2010 took European policymakers by surprise and forced them to design responses to a quickly deteriorating situation. Even though Europe has final...
Social Innovation
New Forms of Organisation in Knowledge–Based Societies
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
'Social innovation’ can be simply defined as the new ideas and initiatives that make it possible to meet our society’s challenges in areas such as the environment, education, employment, culture, health and economic development. It is currently becoming increasingly important as a central concept...
Bought and Paid For
The Hidden Relationship Between Wall Street and Washington
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
A top reporter exposes the deep ties between the Obama administration and the big banks that are bankrupting our country.
As the recession continues, President Obama has chastised the "fat cats" who feast off government bailout money while unemployment remains high and smaller businesses struggle.
But...
The Little Big Number
How GDP Came to Rule the World and What to Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
In one lifetime, GDP, or Gross Domestic Product, has ballooned from a narrow economic tool into a global article of faith. As The Little Big Number demonstrates, this spells trouble. While economies and cultures measure their performance by it, GDP only measures output. It ignores central facts such...
Classical Macroeconomics
Some Modern Variations and Distortions
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2003
John Maynard Keynes failed to correctly interpret classic economic concepts, and dismissed the classical explanations and conclusions as being irrelevant to the world in which we live. The trauma of the Great Depression and Keynes's changed definition of economic concepts, aided by Eugen B�hm-Bawerk, have made it difficult for modern economists to
A Theory of Capitalist Regulation
The US Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Michel Aglietta’s path-breaking book is the first attempt at a rigorous historical theory of the whole development of US capitalism, from the Civil War to the Carter presidency. A major document of the “Regulation School” of heterodox economics, it was received as the boldest book in its field...