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Everybody Ought to Be Rich
Oxford University Press, USA 2013; US$ 21.99Today, consumer credit, employee stock options, and citizen investment in the stock market are taken for granted--fundamental facts of American economic life. But few people realize that they were first widely promoted by John Jakob Raskob (1879-1950), the innovative financier and self-made businessman who built the Empire State building, made millions... 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...
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...
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...
Global Economic History
OUP Oxford 2011; US$ 9.99Why are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, the income differences were small, but they have grown dramatically since Columbus reached America. Since then, the interplay between geography, globalization, technological change, and economic policy has determined the wealth and poverty of nations. The industrial revolution was Britain's... more...
Economics of Good and Evil
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 21.99Tomas Sedlacek has shaken the study of economics as few ever have. Named one of the "Young Guns" and one of the "five hot minds in economics" by the Yale Economic Review, he serves on the National Economic Council in Prague, where his provocative writing has achieved bestseller status. How has he done it? By arguing a simple, almost... more...
Front Page Economics
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 30.00In an age when pundits constantly decry overt political bias in the media, we have naturally become skeptical of the news. But the bluntness of such critiques masks the highly sophisticated ways in which the media frame important stories. In Front Page Economics , Gerald Suttles delves deep into the archives to examine coverage of two major economic... more...
English, Irish and Subversives Among the Dismal Scientists
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010; US$ 164.95This volume presents commissioned essays on important, but often neglected, Irish and English economists of the 18th and 19th centuries. Noticeable papers include Tom Sowell on Observations on Certain Verbal Disputes and Sam Hollanders extended essay on Samuel Bailey, which adds to his voluminous treatment of the great classical economists. This... more...
The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 18.95From the author of Day of Reckoning , the acclaimed critique of Ronald Reagan?s economic policy (?Every citizen should read it,? said The New York Times ): a persuasive, wide-ranging argument that economic growth provides far more than material benefits. In clear-cut prose, Benjamin M. Friedman examines the political and social histories of the large... more...









