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  • Other People's Money

    How Banking Worked in the Early American Republic

    Serier serie How Things Worked
    How the contentious world of nineteenth-century banking shaped the United States.Pieces of paper that claimed to be good for two dollars upon redemption at a distant bank. Foreign coins that fluctuated in value from town to town. Stock certificates issued by turnpike or canal companies—worth something . . . or perhaps nothing. IOUs from farmers or tradesmen, passed around by people who could not ... Læs mere

    147,99 kr.

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  • An Empire of Wealth

    The Epic History of American Economic Power

    "Superb . . . the best one-volume economic history of the United States in a long time and, perhaps, ever." — NewsweekIn this illuminating history, John Steele Gordon tells the extraordinary story of the world's first economic superpower. He shows how the American economy became not only the world's largest, but also its most dynamic and innovative. Combining its English political inheritance with ... Læs mere

    107,11 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Alexander Hamilton on Finance, Credit, and Debt

    "A treasure trove for financial and public policy geeks . . . will also help lay readers go beyond the hit musical in understanding Hamilton's lasting significance." — Publishers WeeklyWhile serving as the first treasury secretary from 1789 to 1795, Alexander Hamilton engineered a financial revolution. He established the treasury debt market, the dollar, and a central bank, while strategically ... Læs mere

    94,11 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Money Men

    Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War Over the American Dollar

    af H. W. Brands ...
    Serier serie Enterprise
    An "insightful" (Publishers Weekly) history of the development of American capitalism and the men who made it great.Most Americans are familiar with the political history of the United States, but there is another history woven all through it, a largely forgotten history—the story of the money men. Acclaimed historian H. W. Brands brings them back to life: J. P. Morgan, who stabilized a foundering ... Læs mere

    117,99 kr.

  • Wall Street

    A History, Updated Edition

    Wall Street is an unending source of legend--and nightmares. It is a universal symbol of both the highest aspirations of economic prosperity and the basest impulses of greed and deception. Charles R. Geisst's Wall Street is at once a chronicle of the street itself--from the days when the wall was merely a defensive barricade built by Peter Stuyvesant--and an engaging economic history of the United ... Læs mere

    102,11 kr.

  • A Nation of Deadbeats

    An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters

    The story of America is a story of dreamers and defaulters. It is also a story of dramatic financial panics that defined the nation, created its political parties, and forced tens of thousands to escape their creditors to new towns in Texas, Florida, and California. As far back as 1792, these panics boiled down to one simple question: Would Americans pay their debts—or were we just a nation of ... Læs mere

    41,74 kr.

  • America's First Great Depression

    Economic Crisis and Political Disorder after the Panic of 1837

    For a while, it seemed impossible to lose money on real estate. But then the bubble burst. The financial sector was paralyzed and the economy contracted. State and federal governments struggled to pay their domestic and foreign creditors. Washington was incapable of decisive action. The country seethed with political and social unrest. In America's First Great Depression, Alasdair Roberts ... Læs mere

    137,74 kr.

  • Loan Sharks

    The Birth of Predatory Lending

    Predatory lending: A problem rooted in the past that continues today.Looking for an investment return that could exceed 500 percent annually; maybe even twice that much?Private, unregulated lending to high-risk borrowers is the answer, or at least it was in the United States for much of the period from the Civil War to the onset of the early decades of the twentieth century. Newspapers called the ... Læs mere

    168,99 kr.

  • Unsustainable

    UNSUSTAINABLE is packed with information that is vital to every taxpaying American. It reveals shocking information that has long been hidden from the public. It exposes how governments at every level hide the pay and exorbitant pensions they provide to themselves and use accounting trickery to keep taxpayers from knowing of the enormous costs and long-term liabilities. ... Læs mere

    46,18 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Speculation

    A History of the Fine Line between Gambling and Investing

    af Stuart Banner ...
    What is the difference between gambling and speculation? This difficult question has posed a legal problem throughout American history. Many have argued that periodic failures by regulators to differentiate between the two have been the proximate causes of catastrophic economic downturns, including the Great Depression and the 2008 global financial crisis. In Speculation, Stuart Banner provides a ... Læs mere

    164,99 kr.

  • A Republic No More

    Big Government and the Rise of American Political Corruption

    af Jay Cost ...
    After the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked, Well, Doctor, what have we got-a Republic or a Monarchy?” Franklin’s response: A Republic-if you can keep it.”This book argues: we couldn’t keep it.A true republic privileges the common interest above the special interests. To do this, our Constitution established an elaborate system of checks and balances that disperses power among ... Læs mere

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  • Debt's Dominion

    A History of Bankruptcy Law in America

    Bankruptcy in America, in stark contrast to its status in most other countries, typically signifies not a debtor's last gasp but an opportunity to catch one's breath and recoup. Why has the nation's legal system evolved to allow both corporate and individual debtors greater control over their fate than imaginable elsewhere? Masterfully probing the political dynamics behind this question, David ... Læs mere

    265,99 kr.