Economic History category: 3271 books
Days of Slaughter
Inside the Fall of Freddie Mac and Why It Could Happen Again
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
In September 2008, beset by mounting losses on high-risk mortgages and mortgage securities, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation teetered on the brink of insolvency. Fearing that confidence in the housing market would collapse completely if Freddie Mac and its competitor Fannie Mae failed, the...
by Daniel E. Saros
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The Progressive Era was among the most volatile times for the economy and labor in American History. Daniel E. Saros explores the institutional and economic conditions of this time, revealing new insight into the regulated nature of industry and the conditions of labor. Using the steel industry as...
Economics
An Awkward Corner
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Originally published in 1966, this book has enduring validity. In analysing the economic situation of the late 1960s Joan Robinson discusses the contradictions which arise from the need to readjust the organisation of society to the fantastic capacity for producing material wealth that capital accumulation...
Developmental Macroeconomics
New Developmentalism as a Growth Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Developmental Macroeconomics: Access to Demand, the Exchange Rate and Growth offers a new approach to development economics and macroeconomics. It is a Keynesian-structuralist approach to economics applied to middle income countries that emphasizes the strategic role of demand in creating investment...
by Richard Jolly
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2012
Ending austerity is not enough. Be Outraged,an outspoken challenge to current orthodoxy, shows how economic recovery in the UK and Europe can be combined with measures for fuller employment, gender equity, better care, reduced inequality and international action for transforming the financial sector...
The Gods that Failed
How Blind Faith in Markets Has Cost Us Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
Over the past three decades, governments have ceded economic control to a new elite of free-market operatives and their colleagues in national and international institutions like the IMF, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization. They promised economic stability but have delivered chaos. Their...
The Corporate Financiers
Williams, Modigliani, Miller, Coase, Williamson, Alchian, Demsetz, Jensen, Meckling
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
The Corporate Financiers is the fifth book in a series of discussions about the great minds in the history and theory of finance. While the series addresses the contributions of scholars in our understanding of modern finance, this volume presents the ways in which a corporation creates value.
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Classical Economics and Modern Theory
Studies in Long-Period Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2005
In this thought-provoking book, well known economists Kurz and Salvadori cover original findings and new vistas on old problems. They cover:
alternative interpretations of classical economists
new growth theory
the relationship between Sraffian theory and Von Neumann
the treatment of capital...
Consumption Takes Time
Implications for Economic Theory
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2001
Standard economic theory of consumer behaviour considers consumers' preferences, their incomes and commodity prices to be the determinants of consumption. However, consumption takes time and no consumer has more - or less - than 168 hours per week. This simple fact is almost invisible in standard theory, and takes the centre stage in this book. Whe
The Vietnamese Economy
Awakening the Dormant Dragon
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2002
This book, written by economists of Vietnamese origin, is an extremely comprehensive collection on economic issues facing Vietnam. The spectrum of topics covered includes macroeconomics, microeconomics, international trade, agriculture, education, communication, institutional reforms, income distribution and poverty measurement.Themes include:* the
by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2001
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and authors of China Wakescomes this insightful and comprehensive look at Asia on the rise.
The recent economic crisis in Asia heaped devastation upon millions. Yet Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn argue that it was the best thing that could have...
by P. J. O'Rourke
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
The #1 New York Times–bestselling political humorist reads Adam Smith’s classic economic treatise—so you don’t have to.
Recognized almost instantly on its publication in 1776 as the fundamental work of economics, The Wealth of Nations was also recognized as really long. The original edition...
Competition in the Promised Land
Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
From 1940 to 1970, nearly four million black migrants left the American rural South to settle in the industrial cities of the North and West. Competition in the Promised Land provides a comprehensive account of the long-lasting effects of the influx of black workers on labor markets and urban space...
Condensed Capitalism
Campbell Soup and the Pursuit of Cheap Production in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Corporations often move factories to areas where production costs, notably labor, taxes, and regulations, are sharply lower than in the original company hometowns. Not every company, however, followed this trend. One of America's most iconic firms, the Campbell Soup Company, was one such exception:...