Economic History

A bold history of the rise of central banks, showing how institutions designed to steady the ship of global finance have instead become as destabil...

Despite the recent interests of economic and art historians in the workings of the market, we still know remarkably little about the everyday conte...

Modern political culture features a deep-seated faith in the power of numbers to find answers, settle disputes, and explain how the world works. Wh...

Tracking the movement of finance capital toward far-flung investment frontiers, Noam Maggor reconceives the emergence of modern capitalism in the U...

The clearest and most up-to-date account of the achievementsand setbacksof the European Union since 1945.Europe has been transformed since the Seco...

Understanding wealth in the United Stateswho has it, how they acquired it, and how they preserve itis crucial to addressing the economic and politi...

A fast-paced, behind-closed-doors account of the Federal Reserves decision making during the 2008 financial crisis, showing how Fed policymakers ov...

The fossil fuel revolution is usually rendered as a tale of historic advances in energy production. In this perspective-changing account, Christoph...

Since the rise of the small-sum lending industry in the 1890s, people on the lowest rungs of the economic ladder in the United States have been ask...

A comprehensive account of the rise and fall of the mortgage-securitization industry, which explains the complex roots of the 2008 financial crisis...

This second volume completes a critical history of the social, political, and theoretical forces behind Marxian economics--the only work in English...

Harold James examines the vulnerability and fragility of processes of globalization, both historically and in the present. This book applies lesson...

Harold James examines the vulnerability and fragility of processes of globalization, both historically and in the present. This book applies lesson...

Hilaire Bellocs thinking on the economy constitutes, by its originality and acuity, a heterodox approach of the greatest interest in addressing the...

In The Industrial Turn in World History, Peter N. Stearns presents a concise yet far reaching overview of the worldwide shift from agricultural soc...