Economic History category: 3271 books
Russia's 'Age of Silver' (Routledge Revivals)
Precious-Metal Production and Economic Growth in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
First published in 1989, Russia’s ‘Age of Silver’ represents a major contribution to the history of the international economy during the eighteenth century, challenging old prejudices and establishing the importance of Russian precious-metal production.
Ian Blanchard examines the nature...
A History of Economic Science in Japan
The Internationalization of Economics in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Japanese economists began publishing scientific papers in renowned journals including Econometrica in the 1950s and had made their significant contributions to the sophistication of general equilibrium analysis by intensive use of a variety of mathematical instruments. They had contributed significantly...
A Brief History of Political Economy
Tales of Marx, Keynes and Hayek
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Investigating the ideological dimension and exploring the continued impact of Marx, Keynes and Hayek, the authors demonstrate how these three economic narratives became entangled over time and under increasing complexity, overlapping and competing with each other. The book reflects on the meaning of...
by Arthur Ray
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1990
Throughout much of the nineteenth century the Hudson's Bay Company had a virtual monopoly on the core area of the fur trade in Canada. Its products were the object of intense competition among merchants on two continents – in Leipzig, New York, London, Winnipeg, St Louis, and Montreal. But in 1870...
The Money Doctor in the Andes
U.S. Advisors, Investors, and Economic Reform in Latin America from World War I to the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 1989
The Money Doctor in the Andes is an account of the technical assistance missions to five Andean republics—Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia, and Peru—undertaken by Princeton University economist Edwin Walter Kemmerer during the 1920s. Drake demonstrates that in each case the Kemmerer mission recommended...
Austrian Economics
The Next Generation
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
Austrian Economics: The Next Generation brings together emerging and established scholars to explore the insights that can be gleaned from applying Austrian economics to a range of different topics. Spanning a variety of related disciplines, from history to politics to public policy, this collection...
The Secret History of the American Empire
The Truth About Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and How to Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2007
From the author of the "New York Times" bestseller "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" comes an expos of international corruption. Perkins suggests how Americans can work to create a more peaceful and stable world for future generations.
How Capitalism Saved America
The Untold History of Our Country, from the Pilgrims to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2004
Whether it’s Michael Moore or the New York Times, Hollywood or academia, a growing segment in America is waging a war on capitalism. We hear that greedy plutocrats exploit the American public; that capitalism harms consumers, the working class, and the environment; that the government needs to rein...
Hoodwinked
An Economic Hit Man Reveals Why the Global Economy IMPLODED -- and How to Fix It
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
John Perkins has seen the signs of today's economic meltdown before. The subprime mortgage fiascos, the banking industry collapse, the rising tide of unemployment, the shuttering of small businesses across the landscape are all too familiar symptoms of a far greater disease. In his former life as...
by Ben S. Bernanke
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Few periods in history compare to the Great Depression. Stock market crashes, bread lines, bank runs, and wild currency speculation were worldwide phenomena--all occurring with war looming in the background. This period has provided economists with a marvelous laboratory for studying the links between...
by Katrine Marcal
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
A funny, clever, and thought-provoking examination of the myth of the "economic man" and its impact on the global economy
How do you get your dinner? That is the basic question of economics. When economist and philosopher Adam Smith proclaimed that all our actions were motivated by...
Money
The Unauthorized Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
From ancient currency to Adam Smith, from the gold standard to shadow banking and the Great Recession: a sweeping historical epic that traces the development and evolution of one of humankind’s greatest inventions.
What is money, and how does it work? In this tour de force of political, cultural...
Power and Plenty
Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2009
International trade has shaped the modern world, yet until now no single book has been available for both economists and general readers that traces the history of the international economy from its earliest beginnings to the present day. Power and Plenty fills this gap, providing the first full account...
The Chosen Few
How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2012
In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Mesopotamia. By 1492 the Jewish people had become a small group of literate urbanites specializing in crafts, trade, moneylending, and medicine in hundreds of places across the Old World, from Seville...