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  • The Reckoning

    Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations

    by Jacob Soll ...
    A “brilliant” (Los Angeles Review of Books) history of accounting, showing how financial and political accountability has shaped the rise and fall of nations and empiresWhether building a road or fighting a war, leaders from ancient Mesopotamia to the present have relied on financial accounting to track their state's assets and guide its policies. Basic accounting tools such as auditing and double ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Information Master

    Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System

    by Jacob Soll ...
    Series series Cultures Of Knowledge In The Early Modern World
    "Colbert has long been celebrated as Louis XIV's minister of finance, trade, and industry. More recently, he has been viewed as his minister of culture and propaganda. In this lively and persuasive book, Jake Soll has given us a third Colbert, the information manager."---Peter Burke, University of Cambridge"Jacob Soll gives us a road map drawn from the French state under Colbert. With a stunning ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Free Market

    The History of an Idea

    by Jacob Soll ...
    From a MacArthur “Genius,” an intellectual history of the free market, from ancient Rome to the twenty-first centuryAfter two government bailouts of the US economy in less than twenty years, free market ideology is due for serious reappraisal. In Free Market, Jacob Soll details how we got to this current crisis, and how we can find our way out by looking to earlier iterations of free market ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Public Net Worth

    Accounting – Government - Democracy

    by Ian Ball, Willem Buiter, John Crompton, Dag Detter, Jacob Soll ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    As individuals, we depend on the services that governments provide. Collectively, we look to them to tackle the big problems - from long-term climate and demographic change to short-term crises like pandemics or war. Funding this activity, and managing the required finances sustainably, is difficult – and getting more so.But governments don't provide – or use – basic financial information that ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Florence After the Medici

    Tuscan Enlightenment, 1737-1790

    Edited by Corey Tazzara, Paula Findlen, Jacob Soll ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge
    Although there is a rich historiography on Enlightenment Tuscany in Italian as well as French and German, the principle Anglophone works are Eric Cochrane’s Tradition and Enlightenment in the Tuscan Academies (1961) and his Enlightenment Florence in the Forgotten Centuries (1973). It is high time to revisit the Tuscan Enlightenment. This volume brings together an international group of scholars ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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    Free Market

    The History of an Idea

    by Jacob Soll ...
    Narrated by Craig Van Ness ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 9 min

    From a MacArthur “Genius,” an intellectual history of the free market, from ancient Rome to the twenty-first centuryAfter two government bailouts of the US economy in less than twenty years, free market ideology is due for serious reappraisal. In Free Market, Jacob Soll details how we got to this current crisis, and how we can find our way out by looking to earlier iterations of free market ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Publishing The Prince

    History, Reading, and the Birth of Political Criticism

    by Jacob Soll ...
    Series series Cultures Of Knowledge In The Early Modern World
    As new ideas arose during the Enlightenment, many political thinkers published their own versions of popular early modern "absolutist" texts and transformed them into manuals of political resistance. As a result, these works never achieved a fixed and stable edition. Publishing The Prince illustrates how Abraham-Nicolas Amelot de La Houssaye created the most popular late seventeenth- and ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

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    The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

    by Martin Wolf ...
    Narrated by John Lee ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 17 min

    From the chief economics commentator of the Financial Times, a magnificent reckoning with how and why the marriage between democracy and capitalism is coming undone, and what can be done to reverse this terrifying dynamicMartin Wolf has long been one of the wisest voices on global economic issues. He has rarely been called an optimist, yet he has never been as worried as he is today. Liberal ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Big Con

    How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies

    by Mariana Mazzucato, Rosie Collington ...
    Narrated by Amy Finegan ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 55 min

    A vital and timely investigation into the opaque and powerful consulting industry—and what to do about itThere is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today that must change. Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that our economies’ reliance on companies such as McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Bright Ages

    A New History of Medieval Europe

    by Matthew Gabriele, David M. Perry ...
    Narrated by Jim Meskimen ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 30 min

    "Traveling easily through a thousand years of history, The Bright Ages reminds us society never collapsed when the Roman Empire fell, nor did the modern world did wake civilization from a thousand year hibernation. Thoroughly enjoyable, thoughtful and accessible; a fresh look on an age full of light, color, and illumination." —Mike Duncan, author of Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Thinking, Fast and Slow

    by Daniel Kahneman ...
    Narrated by Patrick Egan ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 2 min

    The guru to the gurus at last shares his knowledge with the rest of us. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman's seminal studies in behavioral psychology, behavioral economics, and happiness studies have influenced numerous other authors, including Steven Pinker and Malcolm Gladwell. In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman at last offers his own, first book for the general public. It is a lucid and ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    Good Omens

    by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett ...
    Narrated by Martin Jarvis ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 33 min

    Season 2 of Good Omens coming soon!“Reads like the Book of Revelation, rewritten by Monty Python.” — San Francisco ChronicleThe classic novel of angels, demons, and Armageddon from the internationally bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, now a Prime original series starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant.According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Wi... ... Read more

    $32.99 USD