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  • The Continental Dollar

    How the American Revolution Was Financed with Paper Money

    by Farley Grubb ...
    Series series Markets and Governments in Economic History
    An illuminating history of America’s original credit market.The Continental Dollar is a revelatory history of how the fledgling United States paid for its first war. Farley Grubb upends the common telling of this story, in which the United States printed cross-colony money, called Continentals, to serve as an early fiat currency—a currency that is not tied to a commodity like gold, but rather to a ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • German Immigration and Servitude in America, 1709-1920

    by Farley Grubb ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Economic History
    This book provides the most comprehensive history of German migration to North America for the period 1709 to 1920 than has been done before. Employing state-of-the-art methodological and statistical techniques, the book has two objectives. First he explores how the recruitment and shipping markets for immigrants were set up, determining what the voyage was like in terms of the health outcomes for ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • Geopolitical shifts, economic and financial fragmentation – Volume 1. The era of disruption

    by Bruno Cabrillac, Pierre Jaillet, Pascal Lamy, Sébastien Jean, Martial Foucault, Laurent Ferrara, Jamel Saadaoui, Alain Quinet, Dominique Plihon, Sylvie Matelly, Gilles Babinet, Matthieu Boussichas, André Lévy-Lang, Julien Pincet, Françoise Drumetz, Christian Pfister, Marc-Olivier Strauss-Kahn, Luiz Awazu Pereira Da Silva, Gaston Gelos, Costas Stephanou, Farley Grubb, Alain-Gérard Slama, Pierre Rondeau, Sarah Goldman, Maya Jandah ...
    Series series Revue d'économie financière
    Under the joint guidance of Bruno Cabrillac, Director of the Foundation for Studies and Research on International Development (FERDI) and former Deputy Director General of the Banque de France, and Pierre Jaillet, former Director General (Economics and International Relations) of the Banque de France, Advisor at the Jacques Delors Institute - Notre Europe, and associate researcher at IRIS, issue ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

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  • A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960

    by Milton Friedman, Anna Jacobson Schwartz ...
    Series series National Bureau of Economic Research Publications
    “Magisterial. . . . The direct and indirect influence of the Monetary History would be difficult to overstate.”—Ben S. Bernanke, Nobel Prize–winning economist and former chair of the U.S. Federal ReserveFrom Nobel Prize–winning economist Milton Friedman and his celebrated colleague Anna Jacobson Schwartz, one of the most important economics books of the twentieth century—the landmark work that ... Read more

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  • Economics: The User's Guide

    A Pelican Introduction

    by Ha-Joon Chang ...
    Series series Pelican Books
    What is economics?What can - and can't - it explain about the world?Why does it matter?Ha-Joon Chang teaches economics at Cambridge University, and writes a column for the Guardian. The Observer called his book 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism, which was a no.1 bestseller, 'a witty and timely debunking of some of the biggest myths surrounding the global economy.' He won the W... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Forgotten Depression

    1921: The Crash That Cured Itself

    by James Grant ...
    James Grant’s story of America’s last governmentally untreated depression: A bible for conservative economists, this “carefully researched history…makes difficult economic concepts easy to understand, and it deftly mixes major events with interesting vignettes” (The Wall Street Journal).In 1920–1921, Woodrow Wilson and Warren G. Harding met a deep economic slump by seeming to ignore it, ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • Economics for the Common Good

    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    by Jean Tirole ...
    From Nobel Prize–winning economist Jean Tirole, a bold new agenda for the role of economics in societyWhen Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics, he suddenly found himself being stopped in the street by complete strangers and asked to comment on issues of the day, no matter how distant from his own areas of research. His transformation from academic economist to public intellectual ... Read more

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  • Wall Street

    A History, Updated Edition

    by Charles R. Geisst ...
    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 ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Economics in Two Lessons

    Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly

    by John Quiggin ...
    A masterful introduction to the key ideas behind the successes—and failures—of free-market economicsSince 1946, Henry Hazlitt’s bestselling Economics in One Lesson has popularized the belief that economics can be boiled down to one simple lesson: market prices represent the true cost of everything. But one-lesson economics tells only half the story. It can explain why markets often work so well, ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

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  • A Nation of Deadbeats

    An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters

    by Scott Reynolds Nelson ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • Can Finance Save the World?

    Regaining Power over Money to Serve the Common Good

    by Bertrand Badré ...
    " A hugely important book [with] a compelling vision for ethical global finance that makes current political debates seem petty and thoughtless" (Lawrence H. Summers, former U.S. Treasury Secretary).According to Bertrand Badré, finance is neither inherently good nor bad. It's just a tool—the most powerful tool on earth. . In Can Finance Save the World?, he describes innovative approaches and ... Read more

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  • Loan Sharks

    The Birth of Predatory Lending

    by Charles R. Geisst ...
    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 ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD