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Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters by Walter A. Friedman 9780691169194
RRP: $25.80$20.50The 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: $54.18$42.62This 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: $45.15$35.78From 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: $64.50$50.46The 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... -
Kindred Strangers: The Uneasy Relationship between Politics and Business in America by David Vogel 9780691027463
RRP: $183.18$142.49Notwithstanding the myriad forms of government assistance to American business, the relationship of business to politics in the United States remains a highly antagonistic one, characterized by substantial mutual distrust. This adversarial relationship... -
Adam Smith Goes to Moscow: A Dialogue on Radical Reform by Walter Adams 9780691000534
RRP: $51.60$40.67Adam Smith Goes to Moscow is a captivating dialogue between the head of a hypothetical, formerly socialist East European country and a fervently market-minded American adviser. Their spirited give-and-take highlights the monumental political as well as... -
Thorstein Veblen and His Critics, 1891-1963: Conservative, Liberal, and Radical Perspectives by Rick Tilman 9780691633664
RRP: $188.34$146.45The influential economist and philosopher Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) was one of the most original and penetrating critics of American culture and institutions, and his work attracted and still attracts the attention of scholars from a wide range of... -
Consumer Expenditures: New Measures and Old Motives by Stanley Lebergott 9780691630960
RRP: $140.61$109.40Changing consumer choices have built microchip factories where cotton fields used to be and have doomed cities from New Bedford to Detroit, while the impact of these choices on jobs and tax revenues has stimulated the creation of models of consumer... -
Economy of the Chinese Mainland by Ta-Chung Liu 9780691624648
RRP: $135.45$106.76A picture of a relentless drive for industrialization at the expense of living standards is presented in this authoritative comparison of the economic development of China in the Communist and pre-Communist periods. The authors have made a quantitative... -
Pursuing Happiness: American Consumers in the Twentieth Century by Stanley Lebergott 9780691607580
RRP: $38.70$30.04Whether watching baseball or undergoing heart surgery, Americans have bought a variety of goods and services to achieve happiness. Here is a provocative look at what they have chosen to purchase. Stanley Lebergott maintains that the average consumer has... -
The Polish Economy: Crisis, Reform, and Transformation by Ben Slay 9780691607412
RRP: $45.15$35.78In 1989, Poland became the first Eastern Bloc country to shake off the dominance of its ruling Communist party. Although other post-Communist countries have since followed suit, Poland's experience has been unique in its move to Westernize. In this... -
Essays on the Intellectual History of Economics by Jacob Viner 9780691630656
RRP: $199.95$153.97Ranking among the most distinguished economists and scholars of his generation, Jacob Viner is best remembered for his work in international economics and in the history of economic thought. Mark Blaug, in his Great Economists Since Keynes (Cambridge,... -
Before the Computer: IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the Industry They Created, 1865-1956 by James W. Cortada 9780691600109
RRP: $74.82$58.28Before the Computer fully explores the data processing industry in the United States from its nineteenth-century inception down to the period when the computer became its primary tool. As James Cortada describes what was once called the "office... -
Walter Lippmann: Public Economist by Craufurd D. Goodwin 9780674368132
RRP: $46.38$37.87Walter Lippmann was the most distinguished American journalist and public philosopher of the twentieth century. But he was also something more: a public economist who helped millions of ordinary citizens make sense of the most devastating economic... -
The Engine of Enterprise: Credit in America by Rowena Olegario 9780674051140
RRP: $52.83$42.87American households, businesses, and governments have always used intensive amounts of credit. The Engine of Enterprise traces the story of credit from colonial times to the present, highlighting its productive role in building national prosperity... -
The Return to Keynes by Bradley W. Bateman 9780674035386
RRP: $78.63$62.81Keynesian economics, which proposed that the government could use monetary and fiscal policy to help the economy avoid the extremes of recession and inflation, held sway for thirty years after World War II. However, it was discredited after the... -
The Barbaric Counter Revolution: Cause and Cure by W. W. Rostow 9780292729667
RRP: $21.92$18.37In the 1980s, troubled Americans saw interest rates in the United States climb to an alltime high, unemployment grow to over 10 percent, the federal deficit reach near monumental proportions, and the world economy as a whole fall stagnant. Why did a... -
Why the Poor Get Richer and the Rich Slow Down: Essays in the Marshallian Long Period by W. W. Rostow 9780292729636
RRP: $38.69$31.66Bearing on fundamental issues of economic theory, history, and public policy, this volume elaborates and goes beyond themes enunciated in W. W. Rostow's previous works. The eight essays presented here are unified by the author's insistence that... -
Threatening Property: Race, Class, and Campaigns to Legislate Jim Crow Neighborhoods by Elizabeth A. Herbin-Triant 9780231189712
RRP: $38.70$30.04White 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... -
From Head Shops to Whole Foods: The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs by Joshua Davis 9780231171595
RRP: $25.80$20.50In the 1960s and '70s, a diverse range of storefronts-including head shops, African American bookstores, feminist businesses, and organic grocers-brought the work of the New Left, Black Power, feminism, environmentalism, and other movements into the... -
Impact of the Modern Corporation by Betty Bock 9780231059312
RRP: $64.50$50.98-- Alfred L. Bush, curator of Princeton Collections of Western Americana, Princeton UniversityBook InformationISBN 9780231059312Author Betty BockFormat PaperbackPage Count 547Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University Press -
China's Economy: Towards 2049 by Chenyi Yu 9789811592263
$142.34This book is a faithful record of China's economy that spans almost 70 years. Starting from 1949, it portrays in a panoramic picture how the economy has developed over these decades. From the initial restoration and retrenchment, to the great leap... -
Global Experience Industries by Jens Christensen 9788779344327
RRP: $51.60$44.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788779344327Author Jens ChristensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 454Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press -
Decline and Economic Ideals in Italy in the Early Modern Age by Gino Barbieri 9788822263018
RRP: $41.93$3.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788822263018Author Gino BarbieriFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Casa Editrice Leo S.OlschkiPublisher Casa Editrice Leo S.Olschki -
Karl Marx's 'Capital' and the Present - Four Essays by C. P. Chandrasekhar 9788193401569
RRP: $23.21$18.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788193401569Author C. P. ChandrasekharFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 314gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 146mm... -
Global Meltdown and Indian Economy by Anil Kumar Thakur 9788184503548
RRP: $66.44$9.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788184503548Author Anil Kumar ThakurFormat HardbackPage Count 364Imprint Deep & Deep PublicationsPublisher Deep & Deep Publications -
Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era by Thomas C. Leonard 9780691169590
RRP: $49.02$38.71In Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and reform agenda underwrote the Progressive Era dismantling of laissez-faire and the creation of the regulatory welfare state, which, they believed, would humanize... -
The German Ocean: Medieval Europe around the North Sea by Brian Ayers 9781904768494
RRP: $109.65$67.87The German Ocean examines archaeological and historical evidence for the development of economies and societies around the North Sea from the beginning of the twelfth century until the mid sixteenth century. It draws in material from Scandinavia to... -
An American Family Sampler, The Founding Generation, 1814-1908 by Don Mazzella 9781596870031
RRP: $34.77$20.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596870031Author Don MazzellaFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Milk and Cookies PressPublisher ibooks IncWeight(grams) 0g -
The Great Economic Train Wreck: When America Went Off the Rails by Kevin H Clark 9781599322810
RRP: $18.05$15.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599322810Author Kevin H ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Advantage Media GroupPublisher Advantage Media GroupWeight(grams) 381g -
The Essence of Capitalism: The Origins of Our Future by Humphrey McQueen 9781551642208
RRP: $24.50$20.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551642208Author Humphrey McQueenFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose Books -
Business and Community in Medieval England: The Cambridge Hundred Rolls Source Volume by Catherine Casson 9781529209730
RRP: $110.93$85.79One of the most important manuscripts surviving from thirteenth-century England, the corpus of documents known as the Hundred Rolls for Cambridge have been incomplete until the recent discovery of an additional roll. This invaluable volume replaces the... -
Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of the Fed by Jack Rasmus 9781498582841
RRP: $109.65$96.12The US in 1913 was one of the last major economies to establish an institution of a central bank. The book examines, however, the history and evolution of central banking in the US from the perspective of central banking functions-i.e. aggregator of... -
Merchants and Ministers: A History of Businesspeople and Clergy in the United States by Kevin Schmiesing 9781498539241
RRP: $135.45$118.33Two of the most influential forces in American history are business and religion. Merchants and Ministers weaves the two together in a history of the relationship between businesspeople and Christian clergy. From fur traders and missionaries who explored... -
James M. Buchanan and Liberal Political Economy: A Rational Reconstruction by Richard E. Wagner 9781498539067
RRP: $101.91$89.45James M. Buchanan and Liberal Political Economy: A Rational Reconstruction examines the contemporary meaning and significance of James M. Buchanan's body of work. The book uses Buchanan's past contributions to explore the present and future relevance of... -
The Development of Cities in Northern and Central Italy: During the Renaissance by Paul N. Balchin 9781032222790
RRP: $41.27$37.06Originally published in 2019, this book provides a comprehensive account of a formative historical period, uniquely describing Renaissance architecture as the physical manifestation of political and economic change. The book illustrates how shifts in... -
Faith in Markets: Christian Capitalism in the Early American Republic by Joseph P. Slaughter 9780231191104
RRP: $150.93$117.30In 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... -
Energy Infrastructures in the Eastern Bloc: Poland and the Construction of Transnational Electricity, Oil, and Gas Systems by Falk Flade 9783447109048
RRP: $79.98$77.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447109048Author Falk FladeFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 4800g -
American Rubber Workers & Organized Labor, 1900-1941 by Daniel Nelson 9780691633817
RRP: $158.67$124.52In 1900 the manufacture of rubber products in the United States was concentrated in several hundred small plants around New York and Boston that employed low-paid immigrant workers with no intervention from unions. By the mid-1930s, thanks to the... -
Federal Disaster Programs & Hurricane Katrina by Douglas D. Syzerhans 9781594548895
RRP: $154.79$102.40Federal disaster programs kind of sit there and gather moss after all the expenses of running the government agencies responsible for rendering assistance to the disaster victims are spent on staff salaries, computers, travel and all the accompaniments...