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  • Talking to My Daughter About the Economy

    or, How Capitalism Works--and How It Fails

    Translated by Yanis Varoufakis, Jacob Moe ...
    A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard SelectionIn Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance minister and the author of the international bestseller Adults in the Room, pens a series of letters to his young daughter, educating her about the business, politics, and corruption of world economics.Yanis Varoufakis has appeared before heads of nations, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • American Colossus

    by H. W. Brands ...
    From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War: a "first-rate" narrative history (The New York Times)that brilliantly portrays the emergence, in a remarkably short time, of a recognizably modern America.American Colossus captures the decades between the Civil War and the turn of the twentieth century, when a few breathtakingly wealthy ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Capital and Ideology

    Translated by Arthur Goldhammer ...
    A New York Times BestsellerAn NPR Best Book of the YearThe epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system.Thomas Piketty’s bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century galvanized global debate about inequality. In this audacious follow ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Out of the East

    Spices and the Medieval Imagination

    by Paul Freedman ...
    How medieval Europe’s infatuation with expensive, fragrant, exotic spices led to an era of colonial expansion and discovery: “A consummate delight.” —Marion Nestle, James Beard Award–winning author of Unsavory TruthThe demand for spices in medieval Europe was extravagant—and was reflected in the pursuit of fashion, the formation of taste, and the growth of luxury trade. It inspired geographical ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Leveler

    Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

    Series Book 114 - The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that it never dies peacefully. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • When McKinsey Comes to Town

    The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An explosive, deeply reported exposé of McKinsey & Company, the international consulting firm that advises corporations and governments, that highlights the often drastic impact of its work on employees and citizens around the world"Meticulously reported, and ultimately devastating, this is an important book." —Patrick Radden Keefe, New York Times bestselling author of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Splendid Exchange

    How Trade Shaped the World

    A Financial Times and Economist Best Book of the Year exploring world trade from Mesopotamia in 3,000 BC to modern globalization.How did trade evolve to the point where we don’t think twice about biting into an apple from the other side of the world?In A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein, bestselling author of The Birth of Plenty, traces the story of global commerce from its prehistoric ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Money for Nothing

    The Scientists, Fraudsters, and Corrupt Politicians Who Reinvented Money, Panicked a Nation, and Made the World Rich

    The sweeping story of the world’s first financial crisis: “an astounding episode from the early days of financial markets that to this day continues to intrigue and perplex historians . . . narrative history at its best, lively and fresh with new insights” (Liaquat Ahamed, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lords of Finance)A Financial Times Economics Book of the Year ● Longlisted for the Financial ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Color of Money

    Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

    “Read this book. It explains so much about the moment…Beautiful, heartbreaking work.”—Ta-Nehisi Coates“A deep accounting of how America got to a point where a median white family has 13 times more wealth than the median black family.”—The Atlantic“Extraordinary…Baradaran focuses on a part of the American story that’s often ignored: the way African Americans were locked out of the financial engines ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • American Slavery: History in an Hour

    by Kat Smutz ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.From the first slaves arriving in Jamestown in 1619, the cotton fields in the Southern States and shipbuilding in New England, to the slaves who laid down their lives in war so that Americans could be free, American Slavery in an Hour covers the breadth of the subject without sacrificing important historical and cultural details.An important ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers

    Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000

    by Paul Kennedy ...
    About national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" in W. Europe. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • How Markets Fail

    The Logic of Economic Calamities

    by John Cassidy ...
    Behind the alarming headlines about job losses, bank bailouts, and corporate greed is a little-known story of bad ideas. For fifty years or more, economists have been busy developing elegant theories of how markets work—how they facilitate innovation, wealth creation, and an efficient allocation of society's resources. But what about when markets don't work? What about when they lead to stock ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Great Transformation

    The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time

    by Karl Polanyi ...
    In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought about by the "great transformation" of the Industrial Revolution. His analysis explains not only the deficiencies of the self-regulating market, but the potentially dire social consequences of untempered market capitalism. New introductory material reveals the renewed ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Broken Heart of America

    St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States

    A searing and "magisterial" (Cornel West, New York Times–bestselling author of Democracy Matters) history of American racial exploitation and resistance, told through the turbulent past of the city of St. LouisFrom Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson shows in this searing book, the city exemplifies ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Complacent Class

    The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream

    by Tyler Cowen ...
    A Wall Street Journal and Washington Post Bestseller"Tyler Cowen's blog, Marginal Revolution, is the first thing I read every morning. And his brilliant new book, The Complacent Class, has been on my nightstand after I devoured it in one sitting. I am at round-the-clock Cowen saturation right now."--Malcolm GladwellSince Alexis de Tocqueville, restlessness has been accepted as a signature American ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Brazil on the Rise

    The Story of a Country Transformed

    by Larry Rohter ...
    In this hugely praised narrative, New York Times reporter Larry Rohter takes the reader on a lively trip through Brazil's history, culture, and booming economy. Going beyond the popular stereotypes of samba, supermodels, and soccer, he shows us a stunning and varied landscape--from breathtaking tropical beaches to the lush and dangerous Amazon rainforest--and how a complex and vibrant people defy ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A History of the United States in Five Crashes

    Stock Market Meltdowns That Defined a Nation

    by Scott Nations ...
    In this absorbing, smart, and accessible blend of economic and cultural history, Scott Nations, a longtime trader, financial engineer, and CNBC contributor, takes us on a journey through the five significant stock market crashes in the past century to reveal how they defined the United States todayThe Panic of 1907: When the Knickerbocker Trust Company failed, after a brazen attempt to manipulate ... Read more

    $14.49 USD

  • Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets

    by John McMillan ...
    Clear, insightful, and nondogmatic, this book gives us a new appreciation for one of our most ubiquitous institutions.From the wild swings of the stock market to the online auctions of eBay to the unexpected twists of the world's post-Communist economies, markets have suddenly become quite visible. We now have occasion to ask, "What makes these institutions work? How important are they? How can we ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Summary of Saving Capitalism

    by Robert B. Reich | Includes Analysis

    Summary of Saving Capitalism by Robert B. Reich | Includes AnalysisPreview:Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few by Robert B. Reich examines the intersection of economics and politics in order to make sense of income inequality and wealth disparity in the 21st century United States of America…PLEASE NOTE: This is key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book.Inside this ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with 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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kochland

    The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2019 * WINNER OF THE J ANTHONY LUKAS WORK-IN-PROGRESS AWARD * FINANCIAL TIMES’ BEST BOOKS OF 2019 * NPR FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019 * FINALIST FOR THE FINACIAL TIMES/MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF 2019 * KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOKS OF 2019 * SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOKS OF 2019**“Superb…Among the best books ever written about an American ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Summary of Putin Country

    by Anne Garrels | Includes Analysis

    Summary of Putin Country by Anne Garrels | Includes AnalysisPreview:Putin Country is an account of foreign correspondent Anne Garrels’s travels in, and study of, Chelyabinsk, Russia. Chelyabinsk is a region of south central Russia located at the southern end of the Ural mountain chain, on the border of Europe and Asia. Although cosmopolitan Moscow is familiar to European and Western observers, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Depression

    America 1929-1941

    One of the classic studies of the Great Depression, featuring a new introduction by the author with insights into the economic crises of 1929 and today.In the twenty-five years since its publication, critics and scholars have praised historian Robert McElvaine’s sweeping and authoritative history of the Great Depression as one of the best and most readable studies of the era. Combining clear-eyed ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Collective Courage

    A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice

    In Collective Courage, Jessica Gordon Nembhard chronicles African American cooperative business ownership and its place in the movements for Black civil rights and economic equality. Not since W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1907 Economic Co-operation Among Negro Americans has there been a full-length, nationwide study of African American cooperatives. Collective Courage extends that story into the twenty ... Read more

    $33.99 USD