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The Myth of the Rational Market
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 13.99?Do we really need yet another book about the financial crisis? Yes, we do?because this one is different?.A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the mess we?re in.? ?Paul Krugman, New York Times Book Review ?Fox makes business history thrilling.? ? St. Louis Post-Dispatch A lively history of ideas, The Myth of... more...
A Cultural History of Finance
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 130.00The world of finance is again undergoing crisis and transformation. This book provides a new perspective on finance through the prism of popular and formal culture and examines fascination and repulsion toward money, the role of governments and individuals in financial crises and how the Crisis of 2008, like others since 1720, repeat the same patterns... more...
Conversations on Growth, Stability and Trade
Edward Elgar Publishing 2002; US$ 40.00This volume provides a comprehensive survey of the major economic issues that have helped shape the modern world. It includes discussions of contemporary research findings in macroeconomics and scrutinizes some of the most important debates in economic history. more...
The Great Wave
Oxford University Press, USA 1997; US$ 22.99David Hackett Fischer, one of our most prominent historians, has garnered a reputation for making history come alive--even stories as familiar as Paul Revere's ride, or as complicated as the assimilation of British culture in North America. Now, in The Great Wave, Fischer has done it again, marshaling an astonishing array of historical facts in... more...
Distinguished Women Economists
ABC-CLIO 2003; US$ 108.00Women are vital members of the economics profession, yet they have traditionally received scant recognition for their work. This volume provides information on 51 remarkable women in the profession. They come from all areas of economics-academia, the business world, public policy-and include those who are currently active as well as 19th-century pioneers... more...
A Farewell to Alms
Princeton University Press 2008; US$ 24.95Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor? Why did the Industrial Revolution--and the unprecedented economic growth that came with it--occur in eighteenth-century England, and not at some other time, or in some other place? Why didn't industrialization make the whole world rich--and why did it make large parts of the world even poorer?... more...
Grand Pursuit
Simon & Schuster 2011; US$ 18.00In a sweeping narrative, the author of the megabestseller A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through modern history with the men and women who changed the lives of every single person on the planet. It?s the epic story of the making of modern economics, and of how economics rescued mankind from squalor and deprivation by placing its material... more...
Capital Ideas
Wiley 2012; US$ 19.95Capital Ideas traces the origins of modern Wall Street, from the pioneering work of early scholars and the development of new theories in risk, valuation, and investment returns, to the actual implementation of these theories in the real world of investment management. Bernstein brings to life a variety of brilliant academics who have contributed... more...
India in the World Economy
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 24.00This enthralling book offers a new approach to Indian economic history, placing trade and mercantile activity in the region within a global framework. more...
The Roman Market Economy
Princeton University Press 2012; US$ 35.00The quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial Revolution. The Roman Market Economy uses the tools of modern economics to show how trade, markets, and the Pax Romana were critical to ancient Rome's prosperity. Peter... more...









