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Lending to the Borrower from Hell: Debt, Taxes, and Default in the Age of Philip II by Mauricio Drelichman 9780691151496
RRP: £42.00£33.44Why do lenders time and again loan money to sovereign borrowers who promptly go bankrupt? When can this type of lending work? As the United States and many European nations struggle with mountains of debt, historical precedents can offer valuable... -
The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal by Noel Maurer 9780691147383
RRP: £38.00£30.41On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened for business, forever changing the face of global trade and military power, as well as the role of the United States on the world stage. The Canal's creation is often seen as an example of U.S... -
Inflation Targeting: Lessons from the International Experience by Ben S. Bernanke 9780691086897
RRP: £42.00£33.04How should governments and central banks use monetary policy to create a healthy economy? Traditionally, policymakers have used such strategies as controlling the growth of the money supply or pegging the exchange rate to a stable currency. In recent... -
The Korean Economy: From a Miraculous Past to a Sustainable Future by Barry Eichengreen 9780674417182
RRP: £41.95£34.00South Korea has been held out as an economic miracle-as a country that successfully completed the transition from underdeveloped to developed country status-and as an example of how a middle-income country can continue to move up the technology ladder... -
The Age of Equality: The Twentieth Century in Economic Perspective by Richard Pomfret 9780674062177
RRP: £35.95£28.96In 1900 the global average life expectancy at birth was thirty-one years. By 2000 it was sixty-six. Yet, alongside unprecedented improvements in longevity and material well-being, the twentieth century also saw the rise of fascism and communism and a... -
A Culture of Credit: Embedding Trust and Transparency in American Business by Rowena Olegario 9780674023406
RRP: £50.95£40.56In the growing and dynamic economy of nineteenth-century America, businesses sold vast quantities of goods to one another, mostly on credit. This book explains how business people solved the problem of whom to trust--how they determined who was deserving... -
Lost Decades: The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery by Menzie D. Chinn 9780393344103
RRP: £20.00£16.62The U.S. economy lost the first decade of the twenty-first century to an ill-conceived boom and subsequent bust. It is in danger of losing another decade to the stagnation of an incomplete recovery. How did this happen? Read this lucid explanation of the... -
Debt: Ethics, the Environment, and the Economy by Merry Wiesner-Hanks 9780253009265
RRP: £66.00£56.93From personal finance and consumer spending to ballooning national expenditures on warfare and social welfare, debt is fundamental to the dynamics of global capitalism. The contributors to this volume explore the concept of indebtedness in its various... -
Faith in Markets: Christian Capitalism in the Early American Republic by Joseph P. Slaughter 9780231191111
RRP: £30.00£23.29In the first half of the nineteenth century, the United States saw both a series of Protestant religious revivals and the dramatic expansion of the marketplace. Although today conservative Protestantism is associated with laissez-faire capitalism, many... -
Threatening Property: Race, Class, and Campaigns to Legislate Jim Crow Neighborhoods by Elizabeth A. Herbin-Triant 9780231189705
RRP: £88.00£68.75White supremacists determined what African Americans could do and where they could go in the Jim Crow South, but they were less successful in deciding where black people could live because different groups of white supremacists did not agree on the... -
The Demand for Health: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation by Michael Grossman 9780231179003
RRP: £55.00£42.91A seminal work in health economics, Michael Grossman's The Demand for Health introduced a new theoretical model for determining the health status of the population when first published in 1972. His work uniquely synthesized economic and public health... -
The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets by Kara Newman 9780231156714
RRP: £16.99£13.65One morning while reading Barron's, Kara Newman took note of a casual bit of advice offered by famed commodities trader Jim Rogers. "Buy breakfast," he told investors, referring to the increasing value of pork belly and frozen orange juice futures. The... -
The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets by Kara Newman 9780231156707
RRP: £22.00£17.36One morning while reading Barron's, Kara Newman took note of a casual bit of advice offered by famed commodities trader Jim Rogers. "Buy breakfast," he told investors, referring to the increasing value of pork belly and frozen orange juice futures. The... -
The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire by Steven Bryan 9780231152525
RRP: £68.00£52.77By the end of the nineteenth century, the world was ready to adopt the gold standard out of concerns of national power, prestige, and anti-English competition. Yet although the gold standard allowed countries to enact a virtual single world currency, the... -
The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China by Madeleine Zelin 9780231135962
RRP: £81.00£69.15At the periphery of the Chinese empire, a group of innovative entrepreneurs built companies that dominated the Chinese salt trade and created thousands of jobs in the Sichuan region. From its dramatic expansion in the early nineteenth century to its... -
Trade and Commerce: Canada's Economic Constitution by Malcolm Lavoie 9780228016465
RRP: £39.00£34.12In recent decades, the economic framework of Canada's Constitution has been a subject largely neglected by judges, scholars, and commentators. Trade and Commerce fills this gap by bringing to light a lost understanding of how the Constitution structures... -
Manufacturing Catastrophe: Massachusetts and the Making of Global Capitalism, 1813 to the Present by Shaun S. Nichols 9780197665329
RRP: £19.99£17.13American economic history has traditionally been told as a narrative of industrialization and affluence collapsing into globalization and industrial decay. Offering a reappraisal of this pattern, Manufacturing Catastrophe traces the successive rise and... -
Capitalists in Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe by Richard Lachmann 9780195075687
£73.57Richard Lachmann's work offers a new explanation for the origins of nation-states and capitalist markets in early modern Europe. Comparing regions and cities within and across England, France, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands from the twelfth to the... -
Crisis, Mircales & Beyond: Negotiated Adaptation of the Danish Welfare State by Professor Erik Albaek 9788772888248
RRP: £20.95£12.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788772888248Author Professor Erik AlbaekFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press -
European Economic History: From Mercantilism to Maastricht & Beyond by E. Damsgaard Hansen 9788763000178
RRP: £45.00£37.02Spanning 500 years, this tale of the economic history of Western Europe seeks to unearth the roots of present day problems.Book InformationISBN 9788763000178Author E. Damsgaard HansenFormat HardbackPage Count 529Imprint Copenhagen Business School... -
Global Financial Crisis: Policies & Implications by John P. Gallagher 9781614703174
RRP: £141.99£94.06This book presents current research in the study of the global financial crisis. Topics discussed include banking and financial infrastructure continuity; increasing IMF resources and the role of Congress; analysis and policy implication of the global... -
After the Financial Crisis: Analyses of Key Policy Responses & Economic Recovery by Edgar I. Bair 9781629485935
RRP: £69.99£46.28Five years ago, a financial crisis unlike any in generations rocked Wall Street, turning a recession that was already hammering Main Street into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. In the months before President Obama took office, the... -
Financial Crisis: Issues in Business, Finance & Global Economics by Barbara L. Campos 9781612092812
RRP: £115.99£76.78This book examines the financial crisis and the effect it has had in the global business, finance and economic sectors. Topics discussed include the causes of the financial crisis; the elements needed for the management of a business corporation crisis;... -
Australia's Second Chance: What our history tells us about our future by George Megalogenis 9780143783640
RRP: £16.99£15.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143783640Author George MegalogenisFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House... -
Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by Brad de Long 9781399803427
RRP: £20.00£15.47From one of the world's leading economists, a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever, yet left us unsatisfied.Before 1870, humanity lived in dire poverty, with a slow crawl of invention offset by a growing population. Then came a... -
A Short History of Ethics and Economics: The Greeks by James E. Alvey 9781847202017
£95.21Arising from a disenchantment with mainstream economics - a dissatisfaction that is widespread today - A Short History of Ethics and Economics sketches the emergence and decline of the ethical tradition of economics and the crisis of modern economics. In... -
The Founding Texts of Economics: Reading Smith’s Wealth of Nations, Marx’s Capital and Keynes’s General Theory by Philippe Gilles 9781032648972
RRP: £135.00£117.28Smith’s Wealth of Nations, Marx’s Capital, and Keynes’s General Theory are three paradigmatic texts which are foundational to any study of economics or political economy. Although they have long been abundantly quoted and commented on, these “Great... -
The Economic Consequences of U.S. Mobilization for the Second World War by Alexander J. Field 9780300276718
RRP: £23.00£22.13A reminder that war is not always, or even generally, good for long-term growth Many believe that despite its destructive character, war ultimately boosts long-term economic growth. For the United States this view is often supported by appeal to the... -
Trade with Communist Countries by Alec Nove 9781032152622
RRP: £28.99£25.09First published in 1960 Trade with Communist Countries presents an important research report for the first time covering the essential facts and drawing conclusions on East/West trading possibilities. Two authors combine to ensure an authoritative... -
Women and Family Property by Beatrice Moring 9781032597607
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book examines property legislation and the actual position of women in receiving, holding and passing on family property as daughters, wives and as widows throughout history.Traditionally the prevailing view has been that women have been... -
Treatise on Political Economy by Antoine Louis Claude Destutt De Tracy 9780865978133
RRP: £10.95£8.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865978133Author Antoine Louis Claude Destutt De TracyFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 470g -
Economic Point of View: An Essay in the History of Economic Thought by Israel M. Kirzner 9780865977334
RRP: £19.95£16.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865977334Author Israel M. KirznerFormat HardbackPage Count 239Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 562g -
Revolutions: Altering the World Money: Tom Paine - Two, Three, Many Revolutions by Ken Coates 9780851247687
RRP: £7.00£6.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851247687Author Ken CoatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books -
Economics as if God Matters: Over a Century of Papal Teaching Addressed to the Economic Order by Rupert J. Ederer 9780810877986
£79.58In this revised and expanded edition of Economics as if God Matters, Rupert J. Ederer brings forward to the present his classic assessment of how papal social teachings address economic questions from the end of the 19th century. Noting how "economic... -
Chinese Money in Global Context: Historic Junctures Between 600 BCE and 2012 by Niv Horesh 9780804787192
RRP: £70.00£60.71Chinese Money in Global Context: Historic Junctures Between 600 BCE and 2012 offers a groundbreaking interpretation of the Chinese monetary system, charting its evolution by examining key moments in history and placing them in international perspective. ... -
Industry and Underdevelopment: The Industrialization of Mexico, 1890-1940 by Stephen H. Haber 9780804725866
RRP: £21.99£19.19The recent economic troubles of Mexico should have surprised no one, for the Mexican economy is an unhealthy one whose basic problems extend back to the nineteenth century - that is the major theme of this study of the formative years of... -
Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters by Walter A. Friedman 9780691169194
RRP: £20.00£15.89The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic forecasters, pioneers who sought to use the tools of science to predict the future, with the aim of profiting from their forecasts. This book chronicles the lives and... -
Why Australia Prospered: The Shifting Sources of Economic Growth by Ian W. McLean 9780691154671
RRP: £42.00£33.04This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement, and how the nation has sustained an enviable level of income to the present. Why Australia Prospered... -
Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets by Leah Platt Boustan 9780691150871
RRP: £35.00£27.74From 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... -
Heaven's Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy by George J. Borjas 9780691088969
RRP: £50.00£39.12The U.S. took in more than a million immigrants per year in the late 1990s, more than at any other time in history. For humanitarian and many other reasons, this may be good news. But as George Borjas shows in Heaven's Door, it's decidedly mixed news for...