Economic History

Throughout the twentieth century, the U.S. government willingly deployed power, hard and soft, to protect American investments all around the globe...

Portugal is a state of southern Europe, with Lisbon, the nation''''s largest city, as its capital. The mainland is located in the extreme south-wes...

The Great Depression--1929 through 1939 when the United States and the world were economically crippled--is still not fully understood. There ar...

In March 1933, in one of his first acts as president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared a bank holiday throughout the United States. Considered...

Three Wasatch canyons - Mill Creek, Big Cottonwood, and Little Cottonwood - tantalise with what they suggest about the history of settlement in the...

Have the financial crisis of 2008 and the subsequent recession rearranged the basic structures of the global economy?To answer that fundamental que...

On the Turnpike traces the origin and history of the Indian Economic Service and in the process provides fascinating glimpses into how economic pol...

In this book, Nobel Prize-winning economist Edmund Phelps draws on a lifetime of thinking to make a sweeping new argument about what makes nations ...

[A] magnificent history of money and finance.--New York Times Book Review Convincingly makes the case that finance is a change-maker of change-mak...

A DAILY TELEGRAPH AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021''An invaluable primer to some of the underlying tensions behind contemporary political debate'...

'One of the most engrossing books I have ever read' Daily TelegraphJohn Kenneth Galbraith's now-classic account of the 1929 stock market collapse r...

Money isn't just coins, bank notes or clamshells; it is more than a store of value or unit of payment. It's an idea, a transformative player in how...

Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing--and recovering--their way through an extraordinary range ...

The untold story of how FDR did the unthinkable to save the American economyThe American economy is strong in large part because nobody believes th...