Economic History category: 3271 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
This book focuses on urbanization as an attendant consequence of industrialization and sheds light on urban problems such as housing shortages and poverty of jobless people, and the housing and social policies implemented by central and local governments to deal with these problems. Through this book,...
Chinese History and Literature
New Ways to Examine China's Past
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Chinese History and Literature: New Ways to Examine China's Past collects important studies on Chinese history and literature studies conducted by the academics at East China Normal University (ECNU) in recent years. The book covers topics including the study of Chinese Economic History, 'Jiangnan...
In an Uncertain World
Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2003
Robert Rubin was sworn in as the seventieth U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in January 1995 in a brisk ceremony attended only by his wife and a few colleagues. As soon as the ceremony was over, he began an emergency meeting with President Bill Clinton on the financial crisis in Mexico. This was not...
Crashed
How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
**WINNER OF THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018
ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR
A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOK
"An intelligent explanation of the mechanisms that produced the crisis and the response to it...One of the great strengths of Tooze's...
The Long Divergence
How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2012
In the year 1000, the economy of the Middle East was at least as advanced as that of Europe. But by 1800, the region had fallen dramatically behind--in living standards, technology, and economic institutions. In short, the Middle East had failed to modernize economically as the West surged ahead....
New Ideas from Dead Economists
An Introduction to Modern Economic Thought
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2007
**"If you read only one economics book this year, read this one.”—Larry Summers, Secretary of the Treasury for President Clinton, Director of the National Economic Council for President Obama
A must-read for students of economics, New Ideas from Dead Economists offers an entertaining...
The Forgotten Depression
1921: The Crash That Cured Itself
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
James Grant’s story of America’s last governmentally untreated depression: A bible for conservative economists, this “carefully researched history…makes difficult economic concepts easy to understand, and it deftly mixes major events with interesting vignettes” (The Wall Street Journal).
In...
Chicagonomics
The Evolution of Chicago Free Market Economics
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Chicagonomics explores the history and development of classical liberalism as taught and explored at the University of Chicago. Ebenstein's tenth book in the history of economic and political thought, it deals specifically in the area of classical liberalism, examining the ideas of Friedrich Hayek...
Death of Money: The Preppers Guide to Economic Collapse, the Loss of Paper Wealth, and What to Do When Money Dies
Survival Family Basics - Preppers Survival Handbook Series
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
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The threat of economic collapse is real and growing every day. The complexity and interconnected nature of the global...
by Emma Rothschild
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
A benchmark in the history of economics and of political ideas, Rothschild shows us the origins of laissez-faire economic thought and its relation to political conseratism in an unquiet world.
by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
How one of the greatest economic expansions in history sowed the seeds of its own collapse.
With his best-selling Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz showed how a misplaced faith in free-market ideology led to many of the recent problems suffered by the developing nations....
Crisis Economics
A Crash Course in the Future of Finance
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
This myth shattering book reveals the methods Nouriel Roubini used to foretell the current crisis before other economists saw it coming and shows how those methods can help us make sense of the present and prepare for the future.
Renowned economist Nouriel Roubini electrified his profession...
The Second Bank of the United States
“Central” banker in an era of nation-building, 1816–1836
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
The year 2016 marks the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Second Bank of the United States (1816-1836). This book is an economic history of an early central bank, the Second Bank of the United States (1816-36). After US President Andrew Jackson vetoed the re-chartering of the Bank in 1832,...
Book Review: The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John M. Keynes
A turning point in economic history
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes was first published in 1936, and had a lasting impact on both economic...