Economic History

Since the mid-twentieth century, the United States and Saudi Arabia have built a close but often troubled alliance. In this critical history, Victo...

The Fountain of Privilege applies contemporary economic and political theory to answer long-standing historical questions about modernization. In p...

an excellent new book -- Paul Krugman, The New York Times History, not ideology, holds the key to growth. Brilliantly written and argued, Concret...

'A lively and dramatic account of greed, corruption, and scandal that will captivate you from start to finish.' FRANK W. ABAGNALE, subject of Catc...

This book studies the methodological revolution that has resulted in economists mathematical market models being exported across the social science...

Americans today worry about concentrated power in private industry to an extent not seen in generations. Not only do they find diminished diversity...

This book is the first modern analysis of the coasting trade in Elizabethan England. Drawing on a significant body of evidence, including evidence ...

While revealing as history, Wasiks account about the first Republican Presidents launches of infrastructure shame the ignorant, obstinate, narcissi...

This book is the first coherent quantified assessment of the economy of the Roman Empire. George Maher argues inventively and rigorously for a much...

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) has long been recognized as a major political and social thinker as well as historian, but his writings also contai...

A groundbreaking intellectual biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential economists The First Serious Optimist is an intellectua...

Profit getting more out of something than you put into it is the original genius of homo sapiens, who learned how to unleash the energy stored in...

The Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930, which raised U.S. duties on hundreds of imported goods to record levels, is America's most infamous trade law. It ...

In Economics in Perspective, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith presents a compelling and accessible history of economic ideas, from Aristot...

In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping...