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Interpreting Classical Economics
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 160.00This book is the third volume of previously published essays from Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori, following "Understanding Classical Economics" (1998) and "Classical Economics and Modern Theory" (2003), both published by Routledge. This new collection can be read in isolation but perhaps more fruitfully in conjunction with the... more...
Virtue, Fortune, and Faith
University of Minnesota Press 2005; US$ 70.50A cultural history of financial markets from the early eighteenth century to the present day, Virtue, Fortune, and Faith offers a reading of the historical insecurities, debates, and controversies that were purged from nascent credit practices in order to produce the image of today's global financial sphere. Marieke de Goede questions assumptions... more...
Brewing Battles
Algora Publishing 2007; US$ 34.95Brewing Battles is the comprehensive story of the American brewing industry and its leading figures, from its colonial beginnings to the present. Although today s beer companies have their roots in pre-Prohibition business, historical developments since Repeal have affected industry at large, brewers, and the tastes and habits of beer-drinking consumers... more...
Studies in Applied Economics
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 250.00Léon Walras (1834-1910) was one of the key thinkers behind the development of marginal utility theory and his introduction of general equilibrium theory is one of the cornerstones of modern economic thought. Now, for the first time, his seminal work Études d'économie politique appliquée, first published in 1898, is available in English. This work... more...
Quantitative Economic History
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 150.00The essays in this book use the analytical tools and theoretical framework of economics to interpret quantitative historical evidence, offering new ways to approach historical issues and suggesting entirely new types of evidence outside conventional archives. Rosenbloom has gathered together seven essays from leading quantitative economic historians,... more...
Research in Economic History
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007; US$ 120.00A collection of original articles on aspects of economic history. more...
What Goes Up
Little, Brown and Company 2007; US$ 9.99The ups and downs, the schemes and scams, the IPOs and hostile takeovers, the egos, the brilliance, the greed, and the glory--this is the story of Wall Street told by the men and women who made it happen. For those who want to understand how Wall Street became what it is, who want to know how the biggest deals really happened, who wish they had been... more...
Running Out (2008)
Algora Publishing 2008; US$ 38.95The numbers speak for themselves. A disastrous worldwide trend over the last 100 years is illustrated in tables, graphs and analyses of natural resource reserves vs. production and consumption. The effects of world income distribution, objective limits to economic growth on a finite planet, the impossibility of providing full employment on a global... more...
The Foreclosure of America
Penguin Group Inc. 2009; US$ 16.00Now in paperback-an inside look at Countrywide Home Loans and the mortgage crisis, from a former mortgage lender executive. In July 2004, Adam Michaelson attended a high-level meeting at Countrywide Financial headquarters about a new loan product that would allow borrowers to pay less than their minimum monthly payment. The "finance jocks"... more...
Institutional Change and Economic Behaviour
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 125.00This book explores institutional change and economic behaviour by examining the transition process in the former socialist countries that joined the EU in 2004, looking at the growth occurring in China, offering a historical perspective on economic underdevelopment in the Middle East, and discussing the neo-classical paradigm. more...









