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As Time Goes By: From the Industrial Revolutions to the Information Revolution by Chris Freeman 9780199251056
RRP: $98.04$71.30How can we best understand the impact of revolutionary technologies on the business cycle, the economy, and society? Why is economics meaningless without history and without an understanding of institutional and technical change? Does the 'new economy'... -
Economics in Perspective: A Critical History by John Kenneth Galbraith 9780691171647
RRP: $28.38$22.39In Economics in Perspective, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith presents a compelling and accessible history of economic ideas, from Aristotle through the twentieth century. Examining theories of the past that have a continuing modern resonance,... -
Albert O. Hirschman: An Intellectual Biography by Michele Alacevich 9780231199834
RRP: $28.38$22.39Winner, 2023 Best Book Award, Italian Association for the History of Economic ThoughtOne of the most original social scientists of the twentieth century, Albert O. Hirschman led an uncommonly dramatic life. After fleeing Nazi Germany as a youth, he... -
Dynamics of Social Change and Perceptions of Threat by Ewald Frie 9783161566899
RRP: $90.82$47.74Why do things change at certain times and not at others? The contributions collected in this volume approach this question from the perspective of threat. Defined as the self-alerting which goes on within societies and social groups, threats open up... -
Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean by Peter James Hudson
RRP: $36.12$35.85From the end of the nineteenth century until the onset of the Great Depression, Wall Street embarked on a stunning, unprecedented, and often bloody period of international expansion in the Caribbean. A host of financial entities sought to control... -
Constructing Economic Science: The Invention of a Discipline 1850-1950 by Keith Tribe
RRP: $119.97$109.21An accessible account of the role of the modern university in the creation of economics During the late nineteenth century concerns about international commercial rivalry were often expressed in terms of national provision for training and education,... -
Between Depression and Disarmament: The International Armaments Business, 1919-1939 by Jonathan A. Grant
RRP: $39.98$29.48This business history analyzes the connections between private business, disarmament, and re-armament as they affected arms procurement and military technology transfers in Eastern Europe from 1919 to 1939. Rather than focusing on the negotiations or the... -
Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to the International by Marcello Musto 9781474273398
RRP: $38.69$34.40Following the break-up of the Soviet Union, Marx was regarded as a thinker doomed to oblivion about whom everything had already been said and written. However, the international economic crisis of 2008 favoured a return to his analysis of capitalism, and... -
Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade by Douglas A. Irwin
RRP: $45.15$35.78About two hundred years ago, largely as a result of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, free trade achieved an intellectual status unrivaled by any other doctrine in the field of economics. What accounts for the success of free trade against then prevailing... -
Unemployment and the Great Depression in Weimar Germany by Peter D. Stachura 9780333376461
RRP: $116.09$115.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333376461Author Peter D. StachuraFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 460g -
The Israeli Economy: A Story of Success and Costs by Joseph Zeira
RRP: $41.28$32.46An authoritative economic history of Israel from its founding to the presentIn 1922, there were ninety thousand Jews in Palestine, a small country in a poor and volatile region. Today, Israel has a population of nine million and is one of the richest... -
The Evolution of Money by David Orrell
RRP: $38.70$30.04The sharing economy's unique customer-to-company exchange is possible because of the way in which money has evolved. These transactions have not always been as fluid as they are today, and they are likely to become even more fluid. It is therefore... -
The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida
RRP: $23.21$16.40In his modern classic The Rise of the Creative Class, urbanist Richard Florida identifies the emergence of a new social class that is reshaping the twenty-first century's economy, geography, and workplace. This Creative Class is made up of... -
An Outline of the History of Economic Thought by Ernesto Screpanti 9780199279142
RRP: $94.17$75.54This book provides a comprehensive overview of the development of economics from its beginnings, at the end of the Middle Ages, up to contemporary developments. It is strong on contemporary theory, providing extensive coverage of the twentieth century,... -
The Monetarists: The Making of the Chicago Monetary Tradition, 1927–1960 by George S. Tavlas 9780226823188
RRP: $51.60$44.62An essential origin story of modern society's most influential economic doctrine. The Chicago School of economic thought has been subject to endless generalizations-and mischaracterizations-in contemporary debate. What is often portrayed as a monolithic... -
Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War by Bray Hammond 9780691005539
RRP: $96.75$76.23This is a book about politics and banks and history. Yet politicians who read it will see that the author is not a politician, bankers who read it will see that he is not a banker, and historians that he is not an historian. Economists will see that he... -
Unfinished Business: The Unexplored Causes of the Financial Crisis and the Lessons Yet to be Learned by Tamim Bayoumi
RRP: $32.25$18.51A penetrating critique tracing how under-regulated trading between European and U.S. banks led to the 2008 financial crisis-with a prescription for preventing another meltdown There have been numerous books examining the 2008 financial crisis from... -
Unfinished Business: The Unexplored Causes of the Financial Crisis and the Lessons Yet to be Learned by Tamim Bayoumi 9780300238693
RRP: $20.63$20.33A penetrating critique tracing how under-regulated trading between European and U.S. banks led to the 2008 financial crisis-with a prescription for preventing another meltdown There have been numerous books examining the 2008 financial crisis from either... -
Misunderstanding Financial Crises: Why We Don't See Them Coming by Gary B. Gorton 9780199922901
RRP: $34.82$28.24Prior to the financial crisis of 2007-2008, economists thought that no such crisis could or would ever happen again in the United States, that financial events of such magnitude were a thing of the distant past. In fact, observers of that distant... -
Institutions and European Trade: Merchant Guilds, 1000-1800 by Sheilagh Ogilvie
RRP: $39.98$34.61What was the role of merchant guilds in the medieval and early modern economy? Does their wide prevalence and long survival mean they were efficient institutions that benefited the whole economy? Or did merchant guilds simply offer an effective way for... -
Sylloge Nummorum Sasanidarum Iran - A Late Sasanian Hoard from Orumiyeh by Daryoosh Abarzadeh 9783700179566
RRP: $153.51$114.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783700179566Author Daryoosh AbarzadehFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Austrian Academy of Sciences PressPublisher Austrian Academy of Sciences... -
Capital Rules: The Construction of Global Finance by Rawi Abdelal 9780674034556
RRP: $34.77$27.62Listen to a short interview with Rawi AbdelalHost: Chris Gondek Producer: Heron & Crane The rise of global financial markets in the last decades of the twentieth century was premised on one fundamental idea: that capital ought to flow across... -
The Japanese Economy by Takatoshi Ito
RRP: $135.45$116.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262538244Author Takatoshi ItoFormat HardbackPage Count 616Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 32mm -
The Poverty of Slavery: How Unfree Labor Pollutes the Economy by Robert E. Wright 9783319489674
RRP: $70.94$49.20This ground-breaking book adds an economic angle to a traditionally moral argument, demonstrating that slavery has never promoted economic growth or development, neither today nor in the past. While unfree labor may be lucrative for slaveholders, its... -
Tumultuous Times: Central Banking in an Era of Crisis by Masaaki Shirakawa
RRP: $45.15$43.74A rare insider's account of the inner workings of the Japanese economy, and the Bank of Japan's monetary policy, by a career central banker The Japanese economy, once the envy of the world for its dynamism and growth, lost its shine after a financial... -
The Austrian School: Market Order and Entrepreneurial Creativity by Jesus Huerta de Soto 9781847207685
$123.34The Austrian School forms a concise but comprehensive exposition of the main tenets of the modern Austrian School of Economics while also providing a detailed explanation of the differences between the Austrian and the neoclassical (including the Chicago... -
Show Me the Money: The Image of Finance, 1700 to the Present by Paul Crosthwaite 9780719096259
RRP: $32.25$23.63What does money really stand for? How can the abstractions of high finance be made visible? Show me the money documents how the financial world has been imagined in art, illustration, photography and other visual media over the last three centuries in... -
England's Cross of Gold: Keynes, Churchill, and the Governance of Economic Beliefs by James Ashley Morrison
RRP: $67.08$58.18In England's Cross of Gold, James Ashley Morrison challenges the conventional view that the UK's ruinous return to gold in 1925 was inevitable. Instead, he offers a new perspective on the struggles among elites in London to define and redefine the gold... -
First Responders: Inside the U.S. Strategy for Fighting the 2007-2009 Global Financial Crisis by Ben S. Bernanke
RRP: $35.48$30.82An insider's view of the U.S. government's response to the 2007-2009 global financial crisis, recounted by the people who made the key decisions In 2008, the world's financial system stood on the brink of disaster. The United States faced an... -
The Decline of Sterling: Managing the Retreat of an International Currency, 1945-1992 by Catherine R. Schenk 9781107612990
RRP: $58.04$47.45The demise of sterling as an international currency was widely predicted after 1945, but the process took thirty years to complete. Why was this demise so prolonged? Traditional explanations emphasize British efforts to prolong sterling's role because it... -
The Origins of Globalization: World Trade in the Making of the Global Economy, 1500-1800 by Pim de Zwart 9781108447133
RRP: $34.82$29.41For better or for worse, in recent times the rapid growth of international economic exchange has changed our lives. But when did this process of globalization begin, and what effects did it have on economies and societies? Pim de Zwart and Jan Luiten van... -
Cities of Commerce: The Institutional Foundations of International Trade in the Low Countries, 1250-1650 by Oscar Gelderblom 9780691168203
RRP: $36.12$28.12Cities of Commerce develops a model of institutional change in European commerce based on urban rivalry. Cities continuously competed with each other by adapting commercial, legal, and financial institutions to the evolving needs of merchants. Oscar... -
The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers by Robert L. Heilbroner 9780684862149
RRP: $28.38$17.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684862149Author Robert L. HeilbronerFormat PaperbackPage Count 365Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 338g -
Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United States by Jonathan Levy
RRP: $33.54$24.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812985184Author Jonathan LevyFormat PaperbackPage Count 944Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
The Material Atlantic: Clothing, Commerce, and Colonization in the Atlantic World, 1650-1800 by Robert S. DuPlessis 9781107105911
RRP: $39.98$35.05In this wide-ranging account, Robert DuPlessis examines globally sourced textiles that by dramatically altering consumer behaviour, helped create new economies and societies in the early modern world. This deeply researched history of cloth and clothing... -
Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America by Jonathan Levy
RRP: $27.03$22.29Until the early nineteenth century, "risk" was a specialized term: it was the commodity exchanged in a marine insurance contract. Freaks of Fortune tells the story of how the modern concept of risk emerged in the United States. Born on the high seas,... -
The Cambridge History of Capitalism: Volume 2: The Spread of Capitalism: From 1848 to the Present by Larry Neal
RRP: $43.85$37.13The second volume of The Cambridge History of Capitalism provides an authoritative reference on the spread and impact of capitalism across the world, and the varieties of responses to it. Employing a wide geographical coverage and strong comparative... -
Institutional Revolution: Measurement and the Economic Emergence of the Modern World by Douglas W. Allen 9780226014746
RRP: $34.83$33.93Few events in the history of humanity rival the Industrial Revolution. Following its onset in eighteenth-century Britain, sweeping changes in agriculture, manufacturing, transportation, and technology began to gain unstoppable momentum throughout Europe,... -
The Origins of Neoliberalism: Modeling the Economy from Jesus to Foucault by Dotan Leshem 9780231177771
RRP: $28.38$22.39Dotan Leshem recasts the history of the West from an economic perspective, bringing politics, philosophy, and the economy closer together and revealing the significant role of Christian theology in shaping economic and political thought. He begins with... -
The First Serious Optimist: A. C. Pigou and the Birth of Welfare Economics by Ian Kumekawa 9780691163482
RRP: $45.15$36.30A groundbreaking intellectual biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential economists The First Serious Optimist is an intellectual biography of the British economist A. C. Pigou (1877-1959), a founder of welfare economics and one of the...