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  • Capital in the Nineteenth Century

    by Robert E. Gallman, Paul W. Rhode ...
    Series series National Bureau of Economic Research Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Development
    Gives permanence and context to Gallman’s influential economic research on growth theory.When we think about history, we often think about people, events, ideas, and revolutions, but what about the numbers? What do the data tell us about what was, what is, and how things changed over time? Economist Robert E. Gallman (1926–98) gathered extensive data on US capital stock and created a legacy that ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of American Economic History Volume 1

    by Edited by Louis P. Cain, Edited by Price V. Fishback, Edited by Paul W. Rhode ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    American economic history describes the transition of a handful of struggling settlements on the Atlantic seaboard into the nation with the most successful economy in the world today. As the economy has developed, so have the methods used by economic historians to analyze the process. Interest in economic history has sharply increased in recent years among the public, policy-makers, and in the ... Read more

    $199.19 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of American Economic History Volume 2

    by Edited by Louis P. Cain, Edited by Price V. Fishback, Edited by Paul W. Rhode ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    American economic history describes the transition of a handful of struggling settlements on the Atlantic seaboard into the nation with the most successful economy in the world today. As the economy has developed, so have the methods used by economic historians to analyze the process. Interest in economic history has sharply increased in recent years among the public, policy-makers, and in the ... Read more

    $181.19 CAD

  • Economic Evolution and Revolution in Historical Time

    Edited by Paul W. Rhode, Joshua L. Rosenbloom, David F. Weiman ...
    This book challenges the static, ahistorical models on which Economics continues to rely. These models presume that markets operate on a "frictionless" plane where abstract forces play out independent of their institutional and spatial contexts, and of the influences of the past. In reality, at any point in time exogenous factors are themselves outcomes of complex historical processes. They are ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

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  • Unequal Gains

    American Growth and Inequality since 1700

    by Peter H. Lindert, Jeffrey G. Williamson ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    A book that rewrites the history of American prosperity and inequalityUnequal Gains offers a radically new understanding of the economic evolution of the United States, providing a complete picture of the uneven progress of America from colonial times to today.While other economic historians base their accounts on American wealth, Peter Lindert and Jeffrey Williamson focus instead on income—and ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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  • The Land of Too Much

    American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty

    by Monica Prasad ...
    The Land of Too Much presents a simple but powerful hypothesis that addresses three questions: Why does the United States have more poverty than any other developed country? Why did it experience an attack on state intervention starting in the 1980s, known today as the neoliberal revolution? And why did it recently suffer the greatest economic meltdown in seventy-five years?Although the United ... Read more

    $58.99 CAD

  • The Government-Citizen Disconnect

    by Suzanne Mettler ...
    Americans’ relationship to the federal government is paradoxical. Polls show that public opinion regarding the government has plummeted to all-time lows, with only one in five saying they trust the government or believe that it operates in their interest. Yet, at the same time, more Americans than ever benefit from some form of government social provision. Political scientist Suzanne Mettler calls ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • WHEN WALL STREET MET MAIN STREET

    by Julia C. Ott ...
    The financial crisis of 2008 made Americans keenly aware of the impact Wall Street has on the economic well-being of the nation and its citizenry. Ott shows how the government, corporations, and financial institutions transformed stock investment from an elite to a mass practice at the beginning of the twentieth century. ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • The Divided Welfare State

    The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States

    by Jacob S. Hacker ...
    The Divided Welfare State is the first comprehensive political analysis of America's system of public and private social benefits. Everyone knows that the American welfare state is less expensive and extensive, later to develop and slower to grow, than comparable programs abroad. American social spending is as high as spending in many European nations. What is distinctive is that so many social ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • The Fight for Fair Housing

    Causes, Consequences, and Future Implications of the 1968 Federal Fair Housing Act

    Edited by Gregory D. Squires ...
    The federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 was passed in a time of turmoil, conflict, and often conflagration in cities across the nation. It took the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to finally secure its passage. The Kerner Commission warned in 1968 that "to continue present policies is to make permanent the division of our country into two societies; one largely Negro and poor, located in ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • At the Boundaries of Homeownership

    Credit, Discrimination, and the American State

    by Chloe N. Thurston ...
    In the United States, homeownership is synonymous with economic security and middle-class status. It has played this role in American life for almost a century, and as a result, homeownership's centrality to Americans' economic lives has come to seem natural and inevitable. But this state of affairs did not develop spontaneously or inexorably. On the contrary, it was the product of federal ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Color of Law

    A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

    by Richard Rothstein ...
    New York Times Bestseller • Notable Book of the Year • Editors' Choice SelectionOne of Bill Gates’ “Amazing Books” of the YearOne of Publishers Weekly’s 10 Best Books of the YearLonglisted for the National Book Award for NonfictionAn NPR Best Book of the YearWinner of the Hillman Prize for NonfictionGold Winner • California Book Award (Nonfiction)Finalist • Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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