Economic History category: 3271 books
Hall of Mirrors
The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses-and Misuses-of History
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The two great financial crises of the past century are the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession, which began in 2008. Both occurred against the backdrop of sharp credit booms, dubious banking practices, and a fragile and unstable global financial system. When markets went into cardiac...
False Economy
A Surprising Economic History of the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
A "provocative...persuasive" (The New York Times) book that examines countries' economic destinies.
In False Economy, Alan Beattie weaves together the economic choices, political choices, economic history, and human stories, that determine whether governments and countries remain...
Growing Public: Volume 1, The Story
Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2004
Growing Public examines the question of whether social policies that redistribute income impose constraints on economic growth. Taxes and transfers have been debated for centuries, but only now can we get a clear view of the whole evolution of social spending. What kept prospering nations from using...
An Extraordinary Time
The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
The decades after World War II were a golden age across much of the world. It was a time of economic miracles, an era when steady jobs were easy to find and families could see their living standards improving year after year. And then, around 1973, the good times vanished. The world economy slumped...
The Great Recession
The burst of the property bubble and the excesses of speculation
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Understand the Great Recession in no time! Find out everything you need to know about this key moment in contemporary economic history with this practical and accessible guide.
The burst of the property bubble in the USA in 2008 saw millions of families evicted from their homes and soon led...
by Robert C. Allen
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Why are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, the income differences were small, but they have grown dramatically since Columbus reached America. Since then, the interplay between geography, globalization, technological change, and economic policy has determined the wealth and poverty of nations....
Calculating the Value of the Union
Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
While slavery is often at the heart of debates over the causes of the Civil War, historians are not agreed on precisely what aspect of slavery--with its various social, economic, political, cultural, and moral ramifications--gave rise to the sectional rift. In Calculating the Value of the Union, James...
WRONG
Nine Economic Policy Disasters and What We Can Learn from Them
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
In recent years, the world has been rocked by major economic crises, most notably the devastating collapse of Lehman Brothers, the largest bankruptcy in American history, which triggered the breathtakingly destructive sub-prime disaster. What sparks these vast economic calamities? Why do our economic...
JFK and the Reagan Revolution
A Secret History of American Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
The fascinating, suppressed history of how JFK pioneered supply-side economics.
John F. Kennedy was the first president since the 1920s to slash tax rates across-the-board, becoming one of the earliest supply-siders. Sadly, today’s Democrats have ignored JFK’s tax-cut legacy and have opted...
The History of the European Monetary Union
Comparing Strategies amidst Prospects for Integration and National Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
The financial and economic crisis that hit Europe in 2009 brought out the precariousness of the monetary union, accentuating the economic disequilibrium among European nations and strengthening Euro-skepticism.
The crisis served as a catalyst for long-standing and unresolved problems: the creation...
Monetary Policy Rule in Theory and Practice
Facing the Internal vs External Stability Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
This new volume sheds new light on current monetary issues, in particular the debate on monetary policy making, by blending theoretical economic analysis, history of economics, and historical case studies.
A discretionary monetary policy refers to cases in which the central bank is free to...
by Allan H. Meltzer
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Allan H. Meltzer’s critically acclaimed history of the Federal Reserve is the most ambitious, most intensive, and most revealing investigation of the subject ever conducted. Its first volume, published to widespread critical acclaim in 2003, spanned the period from the institution’s founding in...
by Allan H. Meltzer
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Allan H. Meltzer’s critically acclaimed history of the Federal Reserve is the most ambitious, most intensive, and most revealing investigation of the subject ever conducted. Its first volume, published to widespread critical acclaim in 2003, spanned the period from the institution’s founding in...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Originally published in 1991, this is the first book in English to chart the history of economic thought in Sweden. Concentrating on the major figures of Davidson,Wicksell, Cassel, and Heckscher, and on the members of the Stockholm School, it discusses Swedish contributions to both the neo-classical...